{"id":4285631,"url":"https://alion.io/job/caa-devops-engineer","title":"DevOps Engineer","company":{"id":98304,"name":"CAA","domain":"caa.co.uk","url":"https://alion.io/company/caa-2","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SuccessFactors","truth_index":null},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":null,"employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Crawley, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":null,"max":65000,"currency":"GBP","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":85842},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"Azure AKS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure DevOps","optional":false},{"name":"Bash","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Helm","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"Linux","optional":false},{"name":"PowerShell","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Service Mesh","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false},{"name":"PostgreSQL","optional":true},{"name":"Redis","optional":true},{"name":"SQL","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-06-02T02:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-06-02","last_verified_at":"2026-11-13T21:44:43Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":164,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":164},"description":"Salary: up to £65,000 (dependent on experience)\nContract Type: Permanent\nSecurity Level: SC\nLocation: Gatwick - Hybrid\nVisa Restrictions: This position does not offer visa sponsorship\nClosing Date: Friday 27th November 2026\nScreening Calls: w/c 7th December 2026\nInterview Date: w/c 14th December 2026\nWe are the UK's aviation and aerospace regulator and recognised as a world leader in its field. Our activities are diverse, enabling the aviation industry to meet the highest safety standards, and we pride ourselves on our ability to adapt to the constantly evolving aviation environment.\nWe are now seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to help evolve and operate our Azure Kubernetes platform for our Drones systems. This is a hands-on technical role with significant influence across architecture, automation, systems reliability, and operational use.\nThe Role\nAs a Senior Platform Engineer, you will design, build, and support the platforms that underpin the digital services our drone’s community uses. You will work closely with engineering teams, architects, and product to provide secure, scalable, and automated environments.\nYou will act as the escalation point for platform-level incidents, requiring broad troubleshooting capability across networking, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and application configuration.\nYou will help shape best practice in cloud engineering and contribute to the ongoing development of our platform strategy.\nCore Accountabilities\nOperate and manage Azure Kubernetes platforms, including cluster configuration, upgrades, and workload troubleshooting\nLead incident resolution for platform issues and perform root cause analysis\nBuild, maintain, and evolve cloud components across IaaS and PaaS services\nDesign and implement CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps with YAML\nImplement and maintain secure networking patterns \nApply cloud security best practices across identity, networking, secrets, and compliance\nCreate and maintain platform observability using Azure Monitor, Analytics, and Application Insights\nCollaborate with engineering teams to ensure service reliability on the platform\nContribute to architectural discussions and platform design decisions\nPromote best practice in cloud engineering and mentor other engineers where appropriate\nCoordination and support to junior team members both at the sprint and product level\nMaintain a mid/long-term view of platform best practices, tooling etc, and produce recommendations for improvement\nAbility to positively influence decisions and lead implementation of important platform changes.\nAbout You\nYou will have a background in AKS enabled DevOps Engineering, Platform management or similar role, Cloud experience in Azure and an ability to work across multiple applications.\nEssential Skills and Experience\nExperience with Microsoft Azure (IaaS, PaaS, identity, governance)\nCI/CD delivery experience using Azure DevOps and YAML pipelines\nIAC experience with Terraform\nKubernetes experience, ideally with AKS (clusters, workloads, ingress, scaling, upgrades)\nExperience with Helm, Helm charts, releases, and repositories\nExperience of service mesh technologies\nSolid understanding of Azure networking: VNets, NSGs, routing, private endpoints, load balancing, etc\nScripting proficiency in Bash, PowerShell, or Python\nLinux operating system knowledge and troubleshooting capability\nExperience implementing monitoring, logging, and observability solutions in Azure\nAbility to communicate platform issues like risk, platform health, cost etc to non-technical audiences\nDesirable Skills\nExperience contributing to architecture or platform design\nUnderstanding of microservices and API-driven architectures\nExperience with SQL, Postgres, Redis, or EventGrid\nPrior experience in a Senior or Lead engineering role\nExperience working in hybrid cloud environments \nStrong understanding of cloud security best practice and secure platform design.\nAdditional Information\nFor many appointments within the CAA, these roles require access to operationally sensitive infrastructure and/or Nationally Protected information. For these roles the post holders must undergo National Security Vetting and achieve the appropriate level of clearance.\nSC - To be vetted we will usually expect a reasonable period of residency in the UK so that meaningful checks can be undertaken. For this role this will need to be 5 years.\nIf you do not meet these requirements, we may not be able to accept your application.\nFor more information on CTC and SC clearance please visit - Vetting explained - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)\nThe CAA values high ethical standards and personal integrity among employees. If invited for interview you will be asked to complete a declaration of interest.\nRelocation & Property\n\nThe CAA will be relocating from Aviation House (Our Gatwick Office) to new premises in a few years’ time. Our move is driven by strategic, operational and environmental considerations.\nWe will be moving to a new local home, up to a 15-mile radius of Aviation House, to minimise disruption for our valued colleagues and customers.\nWe are now working with colleagues and visitors to understand what we need in our new office, before we start our property search. We will sell Aviation House and land, vacate the site and move to new premises, but we do not expect to move before 2028\nInclusive Recruitment\nWe are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome applications from all backgrounds. As a Disability Confident employer, candidates who meet the minimum requirements will be guaranteed an interview. Find out more about the Disability Confident Scheme. If you require any adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.\nUse of Artificial Intelligence by candidates in the CAA recruitment process\nWe recognise that many of our candidates find Artificial Intelligence to be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be rejected on that basis.\nWorking With Us\nExplore What We Offer section on our careers website to find out about our benefits and how we support work-life balance.\nOur Values\n\nDo The Right Thing, Never Stop Learning, Build Collaborative Relationships, Respect Everyone - For more information please Click Here\nClosing Date: Friday 27th November 2026\nScreening Calls: w/c 7th December 2026\nInterview Date: w/c 14th December 2026\nWe reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. 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