Cloud DevOps Engineer: Scale, Secure & Automate

WalkMe; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Parental Leave

401(k) with company matching

Vacation policy

In-person & virtual social activities

Comprehensive Health Care Coverage

Job summary

WalkMe’s Cloud Engineering team is seeking a DevOps Engineer to help scale and secure our runtime engine used by hundreds of millions of users. You will own deployment pipelines, observability, automation, and security, collaborating with development teams to align infrastructure with project goals.

This role requires 4+ years in DevOps/SRE, strong AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and IaC experience, plus a proactive mindset and excellent communication.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer, SRE or similar role.
• Strong knowledge of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Proactive and self-motivated about learning new technologies and practices.
• Familiarity with security best practices and tools for infra and app security.
• Proven software development experience, ideally in startups or tech firms.
• Solid understanding of AWS and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation (GitLab).
• Experience with databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Assist in managing deployment pipelines to streamline releases.
• Help implement and maintain observability solutions for monitoring performance and reliability.
• Support local development environments to optimize workflows.
• Collaborate with dev teams to ensure infra aligns with project needs.
• Contribute to security improvements through proactive measures and audits.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts and tools to boost efficiency.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure and app issues to minimize downtime.
• Evaluate and integrate new technologies to improve scalability and security.
• Work on Sundays as needed and take another day off in the same week.

Skills

DevOps

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Terraform

CloudFormation

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

IaC

Security

SRE

Communication

Teamwork

Databases

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

GitLab

Terraform

CloudFormation

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Docker

Kubernetes

MySQL

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Job description

WalkMe’s Cloud Engineering team is seeking a DevOps Engineer to help scale and secure our runtime engine used by hundreds of millions of users. You will own deployment pipelines, observability, automation, and security, collaborating with development teams to align infrastructure with project goals.

This role requires 4+ years in DevOps/SRE, strong AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and IaC experience, plus a proactive mindset and excellent communication.