DevOps Engineer

Admiral Money is hiring for a DevOps Engineer to join the team!

Admiral Money is an exciting division of Admiral Group. We have the freedom and innovation of a small start up with the security of a large parent company, Admiral.

The journey started when we launched unsecured personal loans in June 2017. We went on to be the first direct to consumer car finance provider in December 2017. Since then, we have gone from strength to strength and have some exciting plans for the future.

We are relaunching our car finance product later this year and are looking for someone who is keen to learn, excited about getting stuck in and are ready for a challenge to help us to achieve our aim of creating a special lending business for our customers.

The Role

You'll be part of a talented, modern DevOps team working with the latest technologies and platforms including AWS, Terraform, GitLab, and Kubernetes -and always exploring more.

We work in a dynamic environment that prioritises automation, CI/CD, and cutting-edge technology to support our development teams. You'll collaborate with colleagues to maintain, deploy, improve, and troubleshoot the systems that make up the Admiral Money infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain automated build, deployment, and configuration management systems
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to ensure reliable and efficient software delivery
• Monitor system performance metrics and implement data-driven optimisation strategies
• Collaborate with development teams to integrate deployment best practices and ensure product integrity throughout the release lifecycle
• Participate in technical discussions, code reviews, retrospectives, and product demonstrations

Requirements

Expertise in the following:

• Proven experience in a DevOps role within a production environment
• Proficiency with AWS services including VPC, S3, R53, EKS, Lambda, IAM, RDS, and Cognito
• Container orchestration using Kubernetes or similar tools in production deployments

Experience with:

• AWS security best practices including IAM, security groups, encryption, and compliance frameworks
• Monitoring tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, or NewRelic
• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
• Containerised CI/CD solutions
• Linux system administration, including shell scripting and system optimisation

Desirable Skills

• Experience with AWS services such as SQS, SNS, API Gateway, or data analytics platforms (e.g., Redshift, Glue)
• CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI
• Monitoring solutions using NewRelic
• Deployment management with Helm

Admiral: Where You Can

We take pride in being a diverse and inclusive business. It's a place where you can Be You, and show up as you are. We're committed to fostering a people-first culture where everyone is accepted, supported, and empowered to be brilliant. You can, Grow And Progress at a pace and direction that suits you, Make A Difference for our customers and each other, and Share in Our Future with all colleagues eligible for up to £3,600 of free shares each year after one year of service.

Everyone receives 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) when they join us, increasing the longer you stay with us, up to a maximum of 38 days (including bank holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to an additional five days of annual leave.

We're proud of our people-first culture. In fact, we've been recognised as a Great Place to Work for Women, a Great Place to Work for Wellbeing, and an overall Great Place to Work for over 25 years! We're fully committed to making sure your progression is not slowed or halted by barriers related to race, gender, age, sexuality or any of the protected characteristics.

Our fantastic benefits make sure our colleagues have a great work-life balance; You can view some of our other key benefits here .