Senior DevOps Engineer - Remote

Negotiable Basingstoke, England Permanent Senior  Dev Ops EngineerA UK-based organisation is building a shared infrastructure platform designed to support financial services access in local communities. The platform enables multiple institutions to provide services through a unified physical and digital presence, helping people access cash, receive support, and engage with financial products.

Role Overview We're looking for a Senior Dev Ops Engineer to join a small engineering team and help build and scale a production-grade platform.

This is a hands-on role where you'll work across both platform and application layers. While contributing to infrastructure and cloud environments, a key part of the role is working closely with services, codebases, and developer workflows to improve how software is built, deployed, and operated.

You'll take ownership across the stack - collaborating with engineers, improving systems end-to-end, and helping the team deliver reliably as the platform continues to grow.

Core Technology Stack Type Script  / Node.js frameworks (e.g. NestJS or similar)
AWS (EC2, container services, serverless, API Gateway)
PostgreSQL / managed relational databases

Terraform (Infrastructure as Code)
CI/CD tooling (e.g. Git-based pipelines)
Monitoring & logging tools (e.g. Cloud-native observability)
Git Responsibilities Platform  & Application Engineering Support and improve backend services with a focus on performance, scalability, and reliability

Contribute to system design and architecture decisions

Troubleshoot and resolve issues across both application and infrastructure layersCI/CD & Delivery Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support reliable delivery

Improve release processes to enable fast, safe, and repeatable deployments

Work closely with engineers to align pipelines with application and team needs

Developer Experience Improve developer workflows across build, test, and deployment

Build tooling and automation to reduce friction and increase productivity

Support local development and environment consistency

Infrastructure & Cloud Maintain and evolve cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code Support container-based workloads

Ensure environments are consistent, scalable, and aligned with application needs

Observability & Reliability Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting focused on system and application health

Support incident response and debugging across the stack

Drive ongoing improvements to reliability and performance

Required Experience Strong experience in Dev Ops, Platform Engineering, or Software Engineering Good programming experience (Type Script, JavaScript, Python, or similar)
Experience working with backend services or APIsHands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines

Production experience with a major cloud provider (e.g. AWS)
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar)
Comfortable working across both code and infrastructure

Desirable Skills

Experience with Type Script-based backend frameworks

Database tuning and optimisation (PostgreSQL or similar)

Experience with container-based architectures

Building internal tooling or improving developer platforms

Exposure to distributed systems or event-driven architectures

Experience in regulated or financial environments

What We're Looking For Engineers who enjoy working in scaling environments where systems and challenges evolve rapidly

Individuals motivated by growth - both personally and in the platforms they build

People comfortable in a high-ownership, fast-moving environment

Engineers who want to influence architecture, tooling, and ways of workingA mindset focused on continuous improvement and raising standards

Collaborative individuals who help teams scale effectively