📍 Location: Central London / Paddington (3 - 4 days in-office)
💰 Salary: £90k - £100k (some flexibility) + equity
🏷 Sector: SaaS / Analytics / Scale-up / Web3
🕒 Contract: Full-time, Permanent
We’re hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to join a fast-growing 45 people startup and enable them to build tools for global brands for next generation immersive digital environments.
As the most senior platform/infrastructure engineer, you’ll own their AWS/Kubernetes estate, Terraform modules, CI/CD pipelines, and observability stack. You’ll also mentor a mid-level DevOps engineer and play a key role in driving platform maturity and security (SOC2).
🧠 What You’ll Be Doing
🔹 Own and evolve the AWS infrastructure (EKS, RDS, EC2, S3, VPC, IAM)
🔹 Scale and secure the Kubernetes clusters (EKS) in production
🔹 Redesign and improve the CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions
🔹 Lead the observability strategy – Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch
🔹 Implement and manage Terraform IaC across all services
🔹 Lead platform security initiatives and support SOC2 compliance
🔹 Mentor a mid-level DevOps engineer
✅ What We’re Looking For
✔️ Deep production experience in AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), and Terraform
✔️ Proven expertise in GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD tooling
✔️ Strong observability and alerting skills (Grafana, Prometheus)
✔️ Solid scripting (Python, Bash, or Go)
✔️ Security-first mindset and exposure to SOC2 or ISO27001
✔️ Background in product companies (not consultancies)
✔️ Happy to work 3-4 days/week from the London office
🌱 Bonus Points
➕ Experience with MongoDB, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL
➕ Startup/scale-up exposure
➕ Familiarity with JavaScript/TypeScript stack
⭐ Benefits?
✨ Full ownership of a modern cloud-native stack
✨ Real impact in a small, product-led engineering team
✨ Work with globally recognised brands
✨ Share options in a Series A company (Series B planned)
✨ Supportive, sociable, and non-siloed engineering culture