Job Description

DevOps Engineer

Application Deadline: 31 March 2026

Department: Platform Engineering

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Cheltenham (Hybrid)

Compensation: £40,000 - £70,000 / year

Please note: This role requires applicants to be willing and eligible to obtain SC and DV security clearance.

This role also requires applicants to be willing to work on-site up to 4 days per week.

At Gemba Advantage, we design and run secure, cloud‑native platforms for critical public‑sector organisations across the UK. Our teams build and automate the infrastructure and pipelines that high‑impact systems depend on.

We’re looking for Junior and DevOps Engineers who are eager to learn, automate, and contribute to meaningful projects. You’ll join an agile delivery team working closely with developers and customers to streamline deployment, manage infrastructure, and drive efficient digital transformation. Expect hands-on support from experienced engineers passionate about modern practices.

The Role:

• Apply technical knowledge to research, prototype, and deliver novel solutions to client challenges
• Automate infrastructure and processes to facilitate the work of the development team
• Applying your knowledge to write continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for software delivery
• Take part in technical reviews, provide constructive feedback, and support fault fixing/maintenance tasks
• Document practices, share knowledge, and keep up to date with emerging technologies

What you'll bring:

• Willingness and eligibility to obtain DV clearance (essential)
• A proactive attitude toward learning, problem‑solving, and improving how things are built
• Basic competence with programming/scripting languages
• Knowledge of cloud technologies (AWS preferred), IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK), and cloud-native tech (Kubernetes, Docker)
• Experience with version control (Git), databases, APIs, and strong information security focus

Tech we commonly use

• Python - Bash - Go
• Terraform - CloudFormation - CDK
• AWS - Kubernetes - Docker
• Git - CI/CD pipelines - GitOps
• Databases (relational, NoSQL), APIs

Why join Gemba?

We’re guided by four core values that make Gemba a great place to work:

• Our people are our most important asset, and we prioritise their needs.
• We succeed and fail as a team, not as individuals.
• We do the right thing and we do the thing right.
• We keep an unwavering focus on the customer’s needs.

Away from our values, Gemba offers an excellent and comprehensive package to our Gembans, including great salaries, meaningful perks, a culture of truly rewarding and celebrating success, amongst many other core benefits like flexible pensions and PMI.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we recognise, and studies confirm, that often underrepresented candidates in the workplace are less likely to apply to roles unless they meet all skills and experience of the position.
At Gemba we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, therefore we make sure that our recruitment and selection processes never discriminate based upon age, race, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, or pregnancy, and actively welcome applications from all groups.