Senior DevOps Engineer
| Company: | Zen Internet Ltd |
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| Salary: | £53,000 - £66,000 |
| Hours: | Full-time |
| Location: | Manchester, OL11 1RY |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Posting date: | 21 Aug 2026 |
| Closing date: | 20 Sept 2026 |
Summary
FAO Recruitment agencies & organisations: Please note that we do not need agency support to fill this role. We have a small, but great, pool of agencies on our PSL and will contact one of those if we need to.
Overview
You'll be a senior member of the Engineering Reliability Team that will work closely with Zen's development, engineering, and operations centre teams. You'll Work alongside the Development and engineering teams, to support, maintain, and consistently improve the development estate so the development teams can focus and innovate constantly to drive Zen's business and the teams' priorities.
Reporting to the DevOps team manager, you must have an excellent track record in DevOps roles and the drive and attitude to succeed. Zen are committed to investing in and developing you - we believe that everyone can lead and the way we do has a huge impact on our people and play a vital part in our success.
The DevOps team will be responsible for the design and implementation of applications' build, release, deployment and configuration activities. Other responsibilities include working within multi-functional teams to gather requirements, evaluate tools, implementing/updating solutions, building and executing test plans, provision environments, application performance reviews, assist migration of Legacy systems, and triaging and fixing operational issues.
You'll ensure incidents are run smoothly and ensure that operational knowledge is available and shared. As a senior you will be a point of escalation, demonstrating problem solving skills, the ability to learn quickly and adapt your skills and knowledge.
As a service provider we operate many technologies, so you'll have the skills to work with experienced Lead DevOps engineers, Systems Engineers and developers leveraging frameworks, standards, and defined operational process to make the unfamiliar comfortable and familiar. Over time we'll increasingly leverage SRE principles to further optimize and enhance capabilities - it's a great opportunity to get in at the start and shape this journey.
Objectives
Deliver continuous incremental improvement of systems and infrastructure
Take end to end ownership and responsibility for development infrastructure and systems
Be a technical escalation point and eventually be part of a 24/7 escalation rota
Document as you go - enough so your colleagues can follow what's been done and why
Drive tasks forward with energy and enthusiasm
Create proactive monitoring solutions using standard tooling - mainly Zabbix and Elastic
Conduct RCA (Root Cause Analysis) for incidents
Develop standard operational procedures and documentation
Develop and maintain self-managing infrastructure services and dashboards.
Identify cost-saving opportunities
Provide advice on DevOps standards and practices
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Provide coaching and mentoring to Software and DevOps Engineer peers
Key Responsibilities
Experience
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Worked and succeeded as a DevOps Engineer
Benefits
- 2 x Life Assurance Cover, with option to flex upwards
- 25 days Annual leave, rising to 30 days with length of service, with the option to purchase up to 5 more.
- Access to private Medical Healthcare and a Healthcare Cash Plan
- An extra day off for your birthday
- Car salary sacrifice scheme
- Continuous learning and development
- Discounted Mobile plans
- Flexible and Hybrid working
- Free onsite parking
- Internal coaching and mentoring opportunities
- Onsite Contemplation and Prayer room
- Onsite Electric Car Charging points
- Optional flexible critical illness cover
- People-friendly policies
- Recognition awards where we celebrate the most awesome people
- Retail discounts
- Salary sacrifice Pension- minimum of 3% Employee contributions for a 5% Employer contribution
- Six monthly salary reviews
- Subsidised Nursery fees
- Subsidised Onsite Restaurant
- Superfast Free Reliable Broadband
- Travel Loan and Ride2Work Schemes
- Two days' paid leave per year for voluntary work
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