DevOps Engineer

Nomad Digital

. Work within an agile R&D product team of developers, QA, and DevOps professionals .

Posted 10/15/2026full-timeNewcastle upon Tyne • United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleCloudKubernetesLinuxPackerPuppetPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Work within an agile R&D product team of developers, QA, and DevOps professionals
Act as the team’s CI/CD automation expert, currently using GitLab
Convert Puppet modules, Ansible playbooks, and other automation code into reliable automated deployment pipelines
Deploy, update, and maintain systems across the hybrid estate
Maintain customer-specific configuration and data so deployments remain consistent and parameterized
Convert manual deployment and update procedures into automated pipeline-driven workflows
Plan and execute staged and rolling releases with health checks, failure stops, approval gates, and tested rollback
Coordinate versioned releases across the estate and record and report deployed state
Collaborate with developers to test automation versions, report defects, and improve deployment requirements
Evaluate and adopt automation, deployment, and infrastructure-as-code tools
Design, build, and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines, reusable templates, runners, and pipeline images
Select push, pull, or GitOps deployment models
Build automated quality gates including linting, dry runs, configuration diffs, and acceptance testing
Use KVM/QEMU/libvirt, cloud-init, and Packer to create disposable CI/CD test environments
Automate versioning, tagging, release notes, documentation publishing, and environment promotion
Secure pipelines using protected secrets and variables, protected branches and tags, least-privilege access, and scanning
Measure and improve pipeline speed, reliability, and developer experience
Use AI coding assistants to write, review, test, and document pipelines, deployment configuration, and scripts
Apply safe, secure, auditable AI-assisted engineering practices with human approval for production changes
Diagnose and resolve Linux, networking, and application faults
Work with developers and QA on testing, test specifications, test plans, and result documentation
Configure and install wireless access points and switches
Maintain deployment, pipeline, and process documentation
Manage support-staff handover and training
Meet audit, security, regulatory, data protection, and legal obligations, escalating issues when appropriate

Requirements

What you’ll need

3+ years of relevant experience
Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Relevant certifications in CI/CD, infrastructure automation (Ansible/Puppet), Linux, cloud technologies, monitoring, and Python programming
Expertise in GitLab CI/CD
Expertise in Ansible/Puppet automation
Expertise in Linux administration
Expertise in release engineering
Expertise in networking
Expertise in virtualization
Expertise in infrastructure-as-code
Desirable experience in Kubernetes, GitOps, cloud platforms, monitoring, and hybrid edge-to-cloud environments
Experience diagnosing and resolving faults across Linux, networking, and application layers
Experience configuring and installing wireless access points and switches, including software configuration and physical setup
Ability to adhere to system audit, security, regulatory, data protection, and other legal requirements

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health Care Cash Plan
Life Assurance
Critical Illness Cover
Contributory Pension Scheme via Aviva
25 Days of Annual Leave with enhanced leave based on tenure
Annual Leave Purchase Scheme
Car Lease Scheme
Workplace Nursery Scheme
Employee Referral Scheme / Employee Recognition Scheme
Company Sick Plan
Free Onsite Gym
Hybrid Working Model – a mix of working from home and being in the Newcastle Head Office
Flexible working arrangements or appropriate reasonable adjustments on request