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Role: Senior Devops Engineer Contract: Permanent Location: London / Greater Oxford Area Working Pattern: Flexible & Hybrid Salary: Competitive A note from the founders Oxford Dynamics is at an inflection point. We operate in some of the most complex and high-stakes environments in the world defence - national security, AI and robotics. The decisions we make now will define not just how fast we grow, but who we become. You will work closely with the whole team. You will be trusted with judgment calls. You will influence the business. And you will see the impact of your work every day. If you are excited by ownership, pace and purpose, and by building something that genuinely matters - we would love to hear from you. Who we are Founded in 2019, Oxford Dynamics is a fast-growing UK frontier technology company developing both digital and physical AI systems built to operate in dynamic, mission-critical environments. At the core of everything we build is AVIS™ (A Very Intelligent System), our orchestration platform: the intelligence layer that fuses multi-modal data, including text, imagery, telemetry and sensor feeds, so operators can interrogate complex information at speed and make better decisions under pressure. AVIS™ powers our digital decision products, such as ORION for multi-source decision-to-effect, and it powers our physical platforms, including STRIDER for CBRN operations and BARBARIAN for explosive ordnance disposal. The same brain reasons across the screen and the machine. We work where wrong decisions can be catastrophic, partnering with defence and security organisations internationally to help protect nations, infrastructure and lives Requirements What you will be doing here/ why this role matters Oxford Dynamics is a small team who rely on a collaborative and positive approach and so the right attitude for this role is equally as important as experience. We are at an important stage and time in our growth, and as a Senior DevOps Engineer you will be an essential part of our success We are looking for a seasoned DevOps professional with deep hands-on expertise in AWS, Kubernetes and modern CI/CD who can also drive cloud-native security. You will design, build and audit scalable infrastructure, automate delivery pipelines and champion cost-efficient, highly available platforms while owning key processes that will help OD remain compliant with our various certifications also Key Responsibilities Your responsibilities will include, but not limited to: · End-to-end cloud ownership – architect, implement and maintain multi-account, multi-region environments using IaC (Terraform, Helm). · Platform reliability & automation – manage Kubernetes clusters (EKS/OpenShift), container registries and service meshes; create GitHub Actions / Argo CD pipelines for zero-touch deployments. · Security hardening – lead security-posture reviews, implement GuardDuty, CloudWatch and IAM best practices. · SRE & monitoring – uphold SLAs through observability stacks, proactive alerting and performance tuning of distributed systems