At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.

Are you ready to drive innovation and deliver impactful digital solutions? At Jacobs, we’re seeking talented DevOps Engineers to join our Digital & Data team in Bristol. This is your chance to work at the forefront of cloud, automation, and continuous delivery practices, enabling high-performing teams to build, deploy, and operate scalable digital services across water, transportation, defence, and government sectors.

As a DevOps Engineer, you’ll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to design resilient infrastructure, optimise CI/CD pipelines, and promote modern DevOps culture. This role offers the opportunity to work on diverse projects, gain exposure to complex enterprise environments, and grow your expertise in cloud platforms, infrastructure as code, and automation within a collaborative and people-focused organisation.

What you’ll do:

• Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure across development, test, and production environments.
• Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines to support reliable and automated software delivery.
• Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to improve workflows and deployment practices.
• Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) solutions using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Support containerisation and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.

• Strong knowledge and experience in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Expertise in CI/CD tools and automation frameworks like Jenkins, Terraform, or Ansible.
• Experience with microservices, containers, and orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker).
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as ELK Stack or CloudWatch.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot infrastructure and deployment issues in complex environments.

Join us at Jacobs, where we’re not just solving today’s challenges but shaping the future of digital delivery for a connected world.

Other key information
This role is subject to UK Security Vetting at DV (developed vetting) level. Applicants must be eligible and willing to undergo the appropriate security clearance process if not already cleared. If you’re successful in your application, we’ll ask you to undergo the relevant vetting process to achieve DV clearance. You can find out more about vetting here.
Any offer of employment will be conditional upon satisfactory completion of the relevant clearance process.

This is a full time, permanent, hybrid (2-3 days/week) role based in Bristol, with occasional business travel across the UK.
Full‑time employment at Jacobs is based on a 40‑hour working week. We place a strong emphasis on work‑life balance and flexibility, and flexi-time is available.

We offer an excellent and wide range of employee benefits including comprehensive Health Cover, Life Assurance, Income Protection, holiday buy/sell scheme, and a variety of wellbeing, family, parental and fertility support offerings, along with an enhanced contribution pension scheme.

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We value collaboration and believe that in-person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.

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