Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

• Location: Holborn, Central London (Hybrid)
• Reporting to: Head of AI and Technology
• Job Type: Full-time

An exciting new permanent opportunity has become available for a Senior DevOps Engineer, to join a juggernaut organisation in the recruitment industry. A highly dynamic, ambitious and fast-business dedicated to transforming the recruitment landscape through AI-driven, human-centered technology.

They're seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer who is passionate about building and maintaining robust cloud infrastructure and thrives in a dynamic startup environment. This role offers the opportunity to take ownership of the business cloud operations and drive the development of a world-class platform.

Day-to-day of the role:

• Own and manage the cloud infrastructure, ensuring scalability, resilience, and security.
• Implement and maintain high-availability architectures across critical services and data layers.
• Design and optimise infrastructure to support AI-powered workloads and data pipelines.
• Lead cost optimisation initiatives across the platform.
• Manage the end-to-end deployment pipeline to ensure fast, reliable, and low-friction releases.
• Maintain, optimise, and automate CI/CD processes.
• Ensure zero-downtime deployment strategies and effective rollback procedures.
• Build and maintain a stable, efficient development environment for the engineering team.
• Provide tooling and automation to reduce friction and accelerate development velocity.
• Monitor system reliability, performance, and security across environments.
• Implement robust observability tools including logs, metrics, traces, and alerts.
• Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and long-term remediation.
• Ensure security best practices are embedded across infrastructure and pipelines.
• Collaborate closely with the wider team to align infrastructure strategy with product and business goals.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
• Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines and Linux systems administration.
• Deep understanding of high-availability architecture, networking, load balancing, and distributed systems.
• Proven experience supporting production SaaS environments.
• Strong understanding of monitoring and observability tooling.
• Excellent scripting skills in Python, Bash, or similar.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Nice to Have but not essential:

• Experience with event-driven architectures and NextJS/NodeJS build environments.
• Experience supporting data pipelines or AI/ML workloads.
• Background in startup environments and exposure to security frameworks or compliance processes.

Benefits:

• Hybrid working model (minimum 3 days a week in office).
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Flexible holiday scheme and paid time off to move home.
• Contributory pension scheme and enhanced family leave benefits.
• Insurance benefits including life assurance.
• Wellbeing and mental health support.

To apply for the Senior DevOps Engineer position, please submit your CV to be considered immediately.