DevOps - Consultant

Opencast is hiring a DevOps consultant to build and maintain the systems that let client teams respond quickly to needs, on high-impact government, healthcare and purpose-driven projects. The work is aligned to industry-recognised roles such as Build and Release Engineer, Platform Engineer or Site Reliability Engineer, with specialisms in security, cloud hosting, infrastructure or networking where needed. Responsibilities include leading responses to outages, triaging issues, balancing stakeholder priorities and keeping communication channels open with all parties. The postholder will develop and implement continuous deployment solutions that help clients deliver software faster and more efficiently. The role also involves collaborating with clients on their ways of working, contributing to Opencast communities, and working to Opencast's quality, environmental and information security policies. Essential experience includes creating and maintaining complex CI/CD pipelines and building dashboards and visualisations that proactively flag application performance problems. Applicants should also use automated testing to detect security issues in application and infrastructure code before release, and have strong experience with AWS, Azure or GCP. Applicants must hold or be eligible for Security Check clearance, and the salary is £50,000 to £60,000 per annum. The role is hybrid across Opencast's hub locations including London, with weekly on-site work and regular travel to client sites across the UK.