IT & Software

Senior DevOps Engineer

Understanding Recruitment

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this Senior DevOps Engineer role, you will strengthen and scale production infrastructure for a fast-moving fintech-focused platform. You will partner with engineering teams to enhance CI/CD, automation, observability, and deployment tooling while improving reliability and performance for latency-sensitive systems. You’ll shape operational processes, tooling, and security controls, driving efficiency and resilience across the stack. This is a hands-on, ownership-focused role with tangible impact on how engineers ship and operate systems. You’ll join a compact, engineering-driven team where your improvements directly influence infrastructure and development workflows.

Pay / Benefits
  • private healthcare
  • UK visa sponsorship
  • equity
  • performance-based bonus
  • ownership and autonomy
  • direct influence over infrastructure and tooling
Responsibilities
  • Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, release processes and deployment workflows
  • Automate infrastructure and operational processes
  • Improve the reliability and operability of production systems
  • Build and improve monitoring, logging, tracing, dashboards and alerting
  • Improve incident diagnosis and root cause analysis
  • Develop internal tooling that reduces repetitive work across engineering
  • Improve the developer experience from local development through to production
  • Work with Linux systems, networking, host configuration and resource contention
  • Contribute to infrastructure security, access controls, secrets management and system hardening
  • Identify reliability, performance and operational issues and drive improvements
Key requirements
  • Strong experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering or Infrastructure Engineering
  • Experience building and operating production infrastructure in cloud environments
  • Strong Linux systems knowledge and understanding of networking fundamentals
  • Experience with CI/CD and infrastructure automation
  • Experience designing monitoring, observability and alerting for production systems
  • Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills
  • AWS, Terraform or Ansible experience would be advantageous
  • Experience with high-performance, high-throughput or latency-sensitive systems would be particularly valuable
  • Comfortable taking ownership of problems and driving them through to delivery
  • ownership
  • problem-solving
  • cross-functional collaboration
  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • Ansible

Reference: WJ-747_30134746

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