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Description
Hybrid requirements: This role has flexible working patterns.
Ready to automate, innovate and make a real impact?
Do you want to build reliable, scalable systems that make a real difference to millions of people? Do you want to work at a certified B Corp with an inclusive and learning culture as part of a diverse team of great people?
If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government, healthcare and purpose-driven businesses. Working in DevOps, you’ll build and maintain the systems that let teams respond quickly to needs. You’llwork on high-impact projects, helping to build reliable, scalable systems. We align work to industry-recognised roles such as Build & Release Engineer (BRE), Platform Engineer (PLE) or Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and, where needed, to more specialised areas such as security, cloud hosting, infrastructure or networking.
What’s life like as a DevOps consultant at Opencast?
At Opencast, we love to keep things simple, and we love automation.
It’s not the same as your standard Devops Consultant job. Depending on your client’s needs, you’ll take on a range of roles. These will include:
Taking the lead on responding to outages, triaging issues, balancing stakeholder priorities/concerns, and keeping communication channels open with all parties.
Developing, and implementing continuous deployment solutions that help our clients to deliver software faster and more efficiently.
Collaborating with our clients to understand their ways of working and will have an enthusiasm to learn new tools and technologies as needed.
Contributing within Opencast communities.
Ensure that work is carried out in accordance with Opencast’s quality, environmental, and information security policies and procedures, as well as applicable customer policies, standards, and procedures while working on client.
We care about building things right. We believe in good devops practices and keeping things simple. We want to support you as much as we can on interiorising our approach to devops engineering and you supporting others.
We are proud consultants who combine our own experience and approach with our company values.
We are comfortable with new tech. We are empowered, cloud native, vendor agnostic devops engineers. We are empathetic, patient and care about quality.
We know when to pick our battles and how to manage expectations. We are humble, inclusive team players that listen and collaborate, with zero egos!
We’re always willing to teach and help others (inside or outside of our team). And we’re always willing to learn.
It’s a varied job that keeps you super technical and excited.
Salary:
£50,000 - £60,000
Some of the benefits our offer includes:
A competitive pension, health cash plan, share options and discretionary bonus.
Flexible hours and 25 days’ holiday.
People to support you every step of the way.
Where you’ll work:
Your working time at Opencast will be split between multiple locations, including from our HQ and hub locations, client site or home. Travel is part of life at Opencast, and takes in account requirements of your work, our clients and your team.
We include you:
We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.
Interview:
Job interviews are on Microsoft Teams. We’ll make any adjustments to help you.
Role tech stack
Kubernetes
Terraform
GitHub
Bash
Python
PowerShell
Life at
Opencast
Culture overview
At Opencast, our culture is built around purpose, collaboration and growth.
We bring together people, technology and values to create a supportive, inclusive workplace where individuals are trusted to contribute, learn and make a difference. Our teams work collaboratively to deliver high-quality digital services with real-world impact, supported by hybrid ways of working, strong communities and a focus on wellbeing. With opportunities for learning, mentoring and pro-bono work, Opencast is a place where your ideas are valued, your career can develop and the work you do genuinely matters.
Employee benefits
Bonus Scheme
Company Car
Cycle To Work
Flexible Hours
Flexible Working
Free Parking
Health Cash Plan
Home office allowance
Laptop
Learning Allowance
Pension
Share Options
Wellbeing Programme
Office vibe
Clubs & Meetups
Free Coffee
Hackathons
Open Plan
Social Events
Team Building Days
Location
Tech at
Opencast
Leadership
David Sarginson
Director of Architecture & Engineering Capability
Tech overview
At Opencast, we use technology to create meaningful outcomes. Our work spans the full digital delivery lifecycle:
• User-centred design: Research, service design, interaction and content design to ensure solutions meet real user needs.
• Architecture: Designing scalable, secure and sustainable technical strategies that guide end-to-end delivery.
• Software and digital delivery: Building high-quality, reliable software that solves complex business problems.
• DevOps, cloud and platform engineering: Optimising platforms, automating pipelines and managing cloud infrastructure to support resilient services.
• Data and analytics: Turning data into actionable insights to drive better decisions and improve services.
Our approach balances technical excellence with purpose, ensuring every project we deliver is user-focused, sustainable and impactful.
Engineering principles
Agile Process
Code Reviews
Configuration management
Continuous integration
Knowledge sharing
Mentoring
Micro services
Pair programming
Scrum
Test Driven Development
Unit testing
Company tech stack
Microsoft Azure
Java
Node.js
MySQL
Microsoft SQL server (MSSQL)
Spring Boot
Spring Data
Spring
Ruby on rails
Spring MVC
Adobe XD
Scalatra
Scala
Splunk
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