DevOps Engineer

Location:

Bermondsey, London (Hybrid)
Salary:
Depending on experience (£50000-£60000) + Bonus+ Benefits
Years

Experience:

3 years in relevant experience
Job Type: Permanent, Full-Time
Working Pattern:
Monday to Friday

Start Date:

ASAP

We are looking for a Dev Ops Engineer to join our Technology Operations team and help us build, maintain, and improve the cloud platforms that support our applications and customers.
You will become part of a close-knit Tech Ops team of 13 professionals spanning Infrastructure, Application Support, and Dev Ops. This is an excellent opportunity to take ownership of cloud-hosted applications, modern container platforms, and automation initiatives while working closely with developers and operational teams.

As a Dev Ops Engineer, you will join the team that is responsible making sure software can be built, tested, deployed, monitored, and kept running reliably. You’ll play a key role in creating infrastructure reproducibly, work with containerised workloads, build automated CI/CD pipelines and collaborating with the rest of the team.
This is a hands‑on role suited to someone who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, improving platform resilience, and enabling development teams to deliver software efficiently and securely.

• A proactive and pragmatic problem‑solver.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Someone who enjoys collaborating across infrastructure, support, and development teams.
• A passion for automation and continuous improvement.
• The ability to work independently while contributing positively to a team environment.
• Strong experience administering and supporting AWS cloud environments.
• Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes in production environments.
• Strong understanding of container technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience managing cloud‑native applications and microservices architectures.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Cloud Formation.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Cloud Watch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or similar.
• Good understanding of Linux systems administration.
• Experience troubleshooting complex application and infrastructure issues.
• Knowledge of networking principles including DNS, load balancing, firewalls, and TLS/SSL.
• Experience working within Dev Ops or Site Reliability Engineering practices.
• Experience with Amazon EKS.
• Exposure to Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI, Azure Dev Ops, or Jenkins.
• Knowledge of security best practices within AWS and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Helm, ArgoCD, or other Git Ops tooling.
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL, MySQL, or other database technologies.
• Experience supporting SaaS platforms.
• AWS certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect or AWS Sys Ops Administrator.
• Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD, or similar).

Key Responsibilities

• Work with Docker and often Kubernetes
• Support production and non‑production environments hosted in AWS.
• Replace repetitive manual processes with scripts and automation.
• Operate, maintain, and optimise Kubernetes clusters and containerised applications.
• Monitor platform health, performance, availability, and capacity.
• Investigate and resolve platform, infrastructure, and application‑related incidents.
• Work closely with Development, Dev Ops, and Application Support teams to improve system reliability and deployment processes.
• Collaborating with developers work closely with software engineers and operations teams to understand business requirements and translate into technical solutions
• Contribute to developing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Support and improve CI/CD pipelines and release automation processes.
• Implement and…