Senior DevOps Engineer
£54,900
Going rate
Skilled Worker going rate
This role may qualify for a Skilled Worker visa
SOC 2133 is an eligible occupation, but we are only 51% sure that is the right code. Saragossa is a licensed sponsor, so if the code fits, the role should qualify. Check the occupation eligibility rules against what the job actually involves.
This could also be SOC 2139 (Information technology professionals not elsewhere classified) or SOC 2134 (Programmers and software development professionals). We read the code off the advert, so it is our best guess, not the employer's.
New graduate or PhD holder? Pick one of the lower rates.
What each route needs for this job
| Occupation code | New entrant 70% of going rate | STEM PhD 80% of going rate | Relevant PhD 90% of going rate | Standard rate 100% of going rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2133 IT business analysts, architects and systems designers Most likely code | £38,400 Clears | £43,900 Clears | £49,400 Clears | £54,900 Clears |
2139 Information technology professionals not elsewhere classified Also possible | £36,600 Clears | £41,800 Clears | £47,100 Clears | £52,300 Clears |
2134 Programmers and software development professionals Also possible | £38,300 Clears | £43,700 Clears | £49,200 Clears | £54,700 Clears |
We use the lowest threshold across the plausible codes. Likelihood is Possible at most when the pay clears only a lower rate, or only under a less likely code. A mark is for the top of the advertised pay. How the Home Office picks the code
About the role
Get to join at the exact moment an investment firm decides to own its cloud platform in-house.
A new Azure platform is being built, and you will be the one who gets engineering teams onto it. That means creating the repeatable patterns and application-stack templates that let developers deploy without starting from a blank page every time, and making sure every team ends up doing things the same, sensible way.
Developers will feel the difference. CI/CD pipelines that work across every team, containers running reliably on AKS, and infrastructure that is automated rather than clicked together. When engineers start shipping faster, it will be because of what you built.
You will make the platform visible. Logging, tracing, metrics, dashboards and alerting all sit with you, whether that means building the observability platform itself or wiring applications into it so problems get spotted before anyone has to ask.
In a lean team, good ideas do not disappear into a backlog. You will be the go-to person for developers, juggling several projects and competing requests at once, so knowing what matters most and getting it done is as important as the technical work.
This will suit you if you are hands-on with Azure, Docker and Kubernetes and have strong CI/CD and observability experience behind you. Terraform comes naturally, and scripting in Bash and Python is how you automate everything you touch. Deep software development skills are not the point here; being the engineer developers rely on is.
What you have built matters far more here than the certificates on your profile.
Location: 4 days a week on-site, Piccadilly Circus.
Salary: £180k base with attractive bonus.
If you have been waiting for the role where you finally get to build it your way, let’s talk.
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Where this offer sits in the market
IT business analysts, architects and systems designers (SOC 2133) · UK · ONS ASHE 2025 · basic pay · ~187k in sample- Middle half £45,136–79,976
- Median £60,216
- Going rate £54,900
- Threshold £41,700
- New entrant £38,400–49,400
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What salary is needed for this role to be eligible?
The offer must clear both the general threshold and the SOC 2133 going rate of £54,900. New-entrant and shortage discounts can lower it.