Build the infrastructure that allows engineering teams to release frequently, safely, and with clear visibility into production.
DevOps Engineer - United Kingdom
London, United Kingdom · Permanent · Remote within the UK considered
What you'd actually work on
- Designing, provisioning, and maintaining cloud infrastructure through Terraform
- Building and improving CI/CD pipelines used across the engineering organisation
- Operating multiple Kubernetes clusters across production and non-production environments
- Improving deployment reliability, release automation, and rollback processes
- Implementing monitoring, logging, alerting, and distributed tracing across services and infrastructure
- Automating recurring operational tasks and reducing manual intervention
- Investigating production incidents across applications, Kubernetes, networking, and cloud infrastructure
- Leading incident response and documenting corrective actions through useful postmortems
- Improving platform performance, resilience, scalability, and recovery processes
- Working with security and engineering teams to implement access controls and compliance requirements
- Monitoring infrastructure usage and identifying opportunities to reduce cloud costs
- Maintaining technical documentation, operational procedures, and runbooks
Where it gets technically interesting
- Multi-cluster Kubernetes environments where capacity planning and autoscaling require more than default configurations
- Terraform-managed infrastructure spanning several cloud accounts and environments
- CI/CD pipelines supporting multiple engineering teams and frequent production releases
- Zero-downtime deployment strategies for services with strict availability requirements
- Observability across distributed services where individual metrics do not always reveal the source of a problem
- Cloud cost optimisation across infrastructure that has grown quickly
- Production incident management in a regulated financial environment
- Balancing security and compliance requirements with engineering autonomy and delivery speed
What we're looking for
- 4+ years of experience in a DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE role
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production
- Solid experience designing and maintaining infrastructure with Terraform
- Strong Linux and networking fundamentals
- Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines
- Good knowledge of cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability tools
- Understanding of container security, secrets management, and infrastructure access controls
- Experience managing production incidents from detection through resolution and follow-up
- Ability to troubleshoot issues across applications, containers, networks, and cloud services
- Experience working with Git, code reviews, and automated testing
- Clear communication with software engineers, security teams, and other technical stakeholders
The company
A growing fintech platform processing payments across the UK and European Union. The company has more than 300 employees and operates in a regulated environment where infrastructure reliability, security, and traceability are essential.
The platform continues to scale across services, transaction volumes, and engineering teams.
Private health cover, pension contribution, and flexible, remote-friendly working.
Languages: Professional or native English.
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