Senior/Principal DevOps Engineer

Company: Gemba Advantage
Location: Cheltenham, Gloucester
Type: hybrid
Posted: Aug 19, 2026
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Please note: This role requires applicants to hold active, or recently active, SC or DV clearance.

This role also requires applicants to be willing to work on-site up to 4 days per week.

At Gemba Advantage, we design and run secure, cloud‑native platforms for critical public‑sector organisations across the UK. Our teams build and automate the infrastructure and pipelines that high‑impact systems depend on.

We’re looking for experienced DevOps Engineers who want to shape modern delivery, lead technical decisions, and work with people who care about doing things properly. You’ll help design and evolve cloud environments, improve engineering practices, and solve challenging problems alongside our customers.
  • Design and deliver robust automation, platforms, and CI/CD pipelines for complex systems
  • Use Infrastructure as Code and cloud‑native tooling to create secure, scalable environments
  • Lead technical reviews, guide engineering decisions, and support fault fixing and maintenance
  • Mentor engineers, improve ways of working, and champion continuous improvement and security
  • Active, or recently active, SC or DV clearance (essential)
  • Strong experience with cloud platforms (Like AWS) and production environments
  • Deep hands‑on experience with IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK) and Kubernetes/Docker
  • Confidence designing and operating secure CI/CD pipelines, using Git and modern DevOps practices
  • Practical experience with databases, APIs, programming/scripting languages, and a range of operating systems

Tech we commonly use
  • Terraform - CloudFormation - CDK
  • AWS - Kubernetes - Docker
  • Git - CI/CD - GitOps
  • Elasticsearch - MongoDB - relational DBs
  • Python - Go - Bash
We’re guided by four core values that make Gemba a great place to work:
  • Our people are our most important asset, and we prioritise their needs.
  • We succeed and fail as a team, not as individuals.
  • We do the right thing and we do the thing right.
  • We keep an unwavering focus on the customer’s needs.

Away from our values, Gemba offers an excellent and comprehensive package to our Gembans, including great salaries, meaningful perks, a culture of truly rewarding and celebrating success, amongst many other core benefits like flexible pensions and PMI.


As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we recognise, and studies confirm, that often underrepresented candidates in the workplace are less likely to apply to roles unless they meet all skills and experience of the position.

At Gemba we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, therefore we make sure that our recruitment and selection processes never discriminate based upon age, race, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, or pregnancy, and actively welcome applications from all groups.

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About the Company

Name: Gemba Advantage
Location: London, Manchester, Cheltenham (Hybrid)
Website: https://gembaadvantage.pinpointhq.com

Gemba Advantage, part of the Actica Group, is a collection of extraordinary individuals committed to a shared vision to deliver the best value to our customers. We strive to make the right products the right way and at the core of everything we do are the people who make that happen. We go to considerable lengths to provide the environment, resources and opportunity for our people to flourish.

We maximise everyone’s fulfilment at work, and that takes care of productivity. People who want a purely technical career can fill their days with technical tasks. Those who want to work with people to discover the problems they want to solve can do just that.

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