Senior DevOps Engineer

LondonRemote

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer
Company: ACME Inc.
Location: Remote / Hybrid / On-site (as applicable)
Employment Type: Full-time

About ACME Inc.

ACME Inc. is a fast-growing technology company building scalable, secure, and high-performance digital products for global customers. We value engineering excellence, automation-first thinking, and a culture of ownership.

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead infrastructure design, improve reliability, and drive automation across our platform.

Role Overview

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines that support multiple engineering teams. You will be responsible for reliability, scalability, performance, and security of production systems.

This is a hands-on senior role with architectural influence.

Key Responsibilities

Design and maintain cloud infrastructure (AWS / GCP / Azure)
Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, etc.)
Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation)
Improve system reliability and uptime (target ≥99.9% SLA)
Design and maintain Kubernetes clusters (EKS / GKE / AKS)
Implement observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK)
Lead incident response and postmortem processes
Implement security best practices (IAM, secrets management, network policies)
Optimize cloud costs and resource utilization
Mentor junior engineers and define DevOps standards

Required Qualifications

5+ years of DevOps / SRE / Infrastructure experience
Strong experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS preferred)
Production experience with Kubernetes
Solid experience with Terraform or other IaC tools
Experience designing CI/CD pipelines for multi-service environments
Strong understanding of networking (VPCs, subnets, DNS, load balancers)
Experience with Linux systems and shell scripting
Knowledge of containerization (Docker)
Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux)
Experience managing high-availability distributed systems
Familiarity with security frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001)
Experience in high-growth or startup environments
Programming experience (Go, Python, or similar)

What We Offer

Competitive salary and performance bonus
Equity participation (if applicable)
Flexible working environment
Professional development budget
Modern tooling and cloud-native stack
Opportunity to shape infrastructure strategy
Free coffee and food (only in the main office in London)

Success Metrics (First 6–12 Months)

Reduce deployment time by 30%
Improve deployment frequency (target: daily or on-demand releases)
Maintain uptime ≥99.9%
Reduce cloud cost per environment by 15%
Establish standardized infrastructure templates

Reporting Line

Reports to: Head of Engineering / CTO

Works closely with: Backend, Frontend, Security, and Product teams

If you are passionate about automation, reliability engineering, and building scalable infrastructure from the ground up, we would like to hear from you.