DevOps Engineer

Devops/Techops Engineer 6 Month FTC £75,000

Overview

We’re working on behalf of a high-growth technology company operating at significant scale, and are looking for an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to help evolve a critical platform supporting data-intensive and ML-driven systems. This is a hands-on role with real ownership, operating in a production environment where reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency genuinely matter.

Description

• Architect and implement infrastructure running 24/7, supporting ingestion of data initially from an extremely successful, privacy-focused mobile telemetry product

• Provide input to AI and Data software teams as they build out ML systems on top of the infrastructure

• Take part in building an SRE culture across infrastructure teams, including systems that identify issues before they impact users

• Own a plan for onboarding existing systems and customers onto the new platform

• Contribute to maturing release and deployment processes across the organisation

• Optimise infrastructure costs and improve reuse wherever possible

• Provide general operational support

Requirements

• 6+ years’ experience in software or infrastructure engineering roles

• Experience with at least one major public cloud provider (AWS preferred)

• Understanding of how infrastructure and platform decisions impact downstream systems

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, containers, and Terraform

• Hands-on experience with Kafka and infrastructure deployments

• Scripting or software development experience using Python

• Familiarity with Databricks

• Familiarity with OpenShift

• Experience working within an infrastructure team supporting high-scale data and/or ML systems