Location
London / Greater Oxford Area

Hours
Flexible & Hybrid working pattern

Salary
Competitive

About the Role
Oxford Dynamics is at an inflection point, operating in some of the most complex and high-stakes environments in defence, national security, AI and robotics. The decisions made now will define the company's growth and identity. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will work closely with the entire team, trusted with judgment calls, influencing the business and seeing the impact of your work daily. If you are excited by ownership, pace, purpose, and building something that genuinely matters, this role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge frontier technology.

Founded in 2019, Oxford Dynamics is a fast-growing UK frontier technology company developing digital and physical AI systems designed to operate in dynamic, mission-critical environments. Central to their technology is AVIS™ (A Very Intelligent System), an orchestration platform that fuses multi-modal data including text, imagery, telemetry and sensor feeds to enable operators to interrogate complex information quickly and make better decisions under pressure. AVIS™ powers digital decision products like ORION and physical platforms such as STRIDER and BARBARIAN, used in CBRN operations and explosive ordnance disposal respectively. The company partners internationally with defence and security organisations to protect nations, infrastructure and lives.

Experience
- Proven experience in DevOps / SRE with a recent focus on AWS cloud engineering
- Expert knowledge of AWS core services (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, ALB/ELB, CloudFront, ECR/ECS, Control Tower) and security tooling (GuardDuty, IAM Identity Center, CloudWatch)
- Strong Kubernetes (EKS/OpenShift) administration, Helm packaging and service mesh expertise
- Experience with on-premises Kubernetes setup and administration
- Solid Nexus repository experience
- Proficient in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Terraform Cloud, CloudFormation), containerisation (Docker, Docker Compose) and Linux systems
- Skilled in CI/CD engineering using GitHub Actions and Argo CD
- Experience integrating SAST and DAST security best practices
- Scripting skills in Bash and Python or Go for automation
- Demonstrated success delivering cloud cost-optimisation and high-security solutions for enterprise clients
- Expertise implementing SSO across a variety of industry-standard software

About you
A collaborative and supportive attitude is essential. You will operate at multiple levels within the company, focusing strongly on delivery and attention to detail. You should be comfortable working independently, supporting team members, and interacting with clients when required.

Qualifications
- Seasoned DevOps professional with deep hands-on expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD pipelines
- Experience driving cloud-native security and compliance
- Ability to design, build and audit scalable infrastructure and automate delivery pipelines
- Knowledge of policy and audit ownership to maintain compliance with industry standards

Preferred / Bonus
- Experience with MLOps/LLMOps tools such as Sagemaker, Kubeflow or ZenML
- Deployment and administration of on-premise Kubernetes clusters
- Familiarity with Prometheus or other observability stacks
- Experience with AWS Karpenter and Compute Optimizer
- Compliance literacy including ISO 27001, NIST SSDF/OWASP SAMM, and GDPR basics