DevOps Consultant

Job Location (Short): Swindon, United Kingdom

Workplace Type: Hybrid

Join us in a key cloud engineering role where you'll help design, build, and support the platforms and services that power our business. Working alongside development, architecture, security, and operations teams, you'll drive automation, improve reliability, and champion DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) best practices. You'll play a pivotal role in enhancing service resilience, observability, and operational efficiency while helping shape the future of our cloud capabilities through continuous improvement and innovation.

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and platform services to enable secure, reliable, and scalable application delivery.
• Identify, analyse, and remediate platform, infrastructure, and deployment weaknesses, driving continuous improvement in reliability, performance, and operational efficiency.
• Drive automation initiatives that reduce operational overhead, improve deployment quality, and increase the scalability and resilience of cloud-hosted services.
• Collaborate closely with architecture, development, security, and operations teams to establish and promote DevOps best practices, standards, and ways of working.
• Contribute to the adoption of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, supporting improvements in observability, monitoring, service reliability, incident management, and operational excellence.
• Implement and support infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and governance solutions using technologies such as Terraform, OpenTofu, Scalr, and Puppet.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance tooling that supports software delivery, platform operations, monitoring, and automated operational processes.
• Support the testing, validation, and deployment of new platform capabilities, assessing operational impact and ensuring production readiness.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues across development, test, and production environments, working proactively to identify and eliminate recurring problems.
• Ensure cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and supporting platform services are secure, resilient, compliant, and aligned with organisational standards and best practices.

• Knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and practices.
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, Grafana, Prometheus, or similar technologies.
• Understanding of incident management, root cause analysis, service reliability metrics, and continuous service improvement.
• Experience with configuration management solutions such as Puppet.

Octave provides mission critical software that empowers organizations to make informed decisions across every stage of the asset lifecycle - Design, Build, Operate and Protect - where performance, safety, and reliability are non negotiable and failure is not an option.

Turning complex operational data into actionable intelligence, Octave connects expertise, real world conditions and enterprise scale insight to improve performance, resilience and incident response where it matters most.

Octave has more than 7,000 employees in 45 countries. Learn more at and follow us on LinkedIn .

All in. Always forward. That's the way we do things around here. We put trust in our people because we believe it's the best way to unleash potential, bring ideas to life, and keep moving ahead. And it's why we're committed to creating an environment that's truly supportive, providing you with the resources you need to support your ambitions, no matter who you are or where you are in the world.

At Octave, we believe that diverse and inclusive teams are critical to the success of our people and our business. Here, everyone is welcome. As an inclusive workplace, we don't discriminate. In fact, we embrace differences and are fully committed to creating equal opportunities, an inclusive environment, and fairness for all.

Respect is the cornerstone of how we operate, so speak up and be yourself. You're valued here.