Senior DevOps Engineer - ID46327

Senior DevOps Engineer

Oxfordshire (Hybrid) | Up to £110,000 base

We're working with a well-funded, fast-growing technology company building high-performance, data-intensive platforms, and they’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join their team.

This is a high-impact role where you’ll play a key part in shaping infrastructure, improving deployment processes, and driving reliability across complex distributed systems operating across both cloud and on-prem environments.

What you’ll be doing:

• Building and automating infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible
• Developing and optimising CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, including self-hosted runners)
• Managing deployments across multiple environments, including restricted or security-sensitive systems
• Driving observability using OpenTelemetry and the Grafana stack (Loki, Tempo, Mimir)
• Implementing artifact management, versioning strategies, and release processes
• Supporting the evolution of a hybrid cloud / on-prem platform architecture
• Working with containerised services and contributing to platform scalability
• Collaborating with software and platform engineering teams to improve system performance and reliability

What they’re looking for:

• Strong DevOps / SRE experience in complex, production environments
• Deep Linux systems expertise (Ubuntu or similar)
• Strong experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, etc.)
• Strong scripting/programming skills (Python or similar)
• Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Hands-on experience with observability tooling (Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus)
• Strong experience with containerised environments (Docker or similar)
• Experience working across cloud and on-prem / hybrid environments
• Strong understanding of security, scalability, and system reliability

Why join?

• Work on complex, high-impact systems at scale
• Real influence over infrastructure and platform engineering direction
• Strong engineering culture with cross-functional collaboration
• Competitive salary + bonus + equity
• Private healthcare (family included)
• Flexible hybrid working

We are committed to building inclusive teams.

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. Our client values diversity and believes a broad range of ideas and experiences makes for better outcomes.