Career coaching · London

DevOps & Cloud Engineer in the UK — How to Get an Offer

Infrastructure, automation, cloud — it is a hot market. But your CV and strategy have to work properly.

Common problems

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A CV packed with tools but no context — the recruiter cannot see the scale of your work

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No metrics: uptime, cost reduction, deployment frequency — which UK employers expect

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Unclear on the difference between DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineer and Cloud Architect in the UK

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AWS / GCP / Azure certificates, but no production cases

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Not knowing which UK companies are actively hiring DevOps engineers, or how to find them

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Visa sponsorship — not knowing who sponsors for this role

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Cloud: AWS, GCP or Azure — ideally a certificate plus production experience

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IaC: Terraform or Pulumi — required for most roles

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CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins

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Containers: Docker and Kubernetes — the market standard

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Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK

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Scripting: Bash and Python — essential

AI workloads are a new infrastructure frontier. Skills that stand out:

→MLOps and LLMOps: deploying and monitoring models and AI services
→GPU capacity and cost management for AI workloads
→Platform engineering for AI teams: evaluation pipelines, observability, guardrails
→Using AI assistants for IaC and incident response — with careful review