Devops Engineer

The French Sourcer; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health cover

Pension contribution

Flexible, remote-friendly working

Job summary

The French Sourcer in London, United Kingdom, is seeking a DevOps Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable cloud infrastructure with a focus on reliability and security. You will manage multi-cluster Kubernetes environments and drive zero-downtime deployments.

You will work across Terraform-managed infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and production incident responses, collaborating with security and software teams to ensure compliant, efficient operations and cost-conscious cloud usage.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production.
• Solid infrastructure design and maintenance with Terraform.
• Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines across teams.
• Proficient Linux and networking fundamentals.
• Cloud experience on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability tools.
• Proven ability to manage production incidents from detection to resolution.

Responsibilities

• Designing, provisioning, and maintaining cloud infrastructure through Terraform.
• Building and improving CI/CD pipelines used across the engineering organisation
• Operating multiple Kubernetes clusters across production and non-production environments
• Improving deployment reliability, release automation, and rollback processes
• Implementing monitoring, logging, alerting, and distributed tracing across services and infrastructure
• Automating recurring operational tasks and reducing manual intervention
• Investigating production incidents across applications, Kubernetes, networking, and cloud infrastructure
• Leading incident response and documenting corrective actions through postmortems
• Improving platform performance, resilience, scalability, and recovery processes
• Working with security and engineering teams to implement access controls and compliance requirements
• Monitoring infrastructure usage and identifying opportunities to reduce cloud costs
• Maintaining technical documentation, operational procedures, and runbooks

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Linux fundamentals

Cloud platforms

Observability

Incident management

Networking fundamentals

Security controls

Git workflows

Job description

Build the infrastructure that allows engineering teams to release frequently, safely, and with clear visibility into production.

DevOps Engineer - United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom · Permanent · Remote within the UK considered

What you'd actually work on

• Designing, provisioning, and maintaining cloud infrastructure through Terraform
• Building and improving CI/CD pipelines used across the engineering organisation
• Operating multiple Kubernetes clusters across production and non-production environments
• Improving deployment reliability, release automation, and rollback processes
• Implementing monitoring, logging, alerting, and distributed tracing across services and infrastructure
• Automating recurring operational tasks and reducing manual intervention
• Investigating production incidents across applications, Kubernetes, networking, and cloud infrastructure
• Leading incident response and documenting corrective actions through useful postmortems
• Improving platform performance, resilience, scalability, and recovery processes
• Working with security and engineering teams to implement access controls and compliance requirements
• Monitoring infrastructure usage and identifying opportunities to reduce cloud costs
• Maintaining technical documentation, operational procedures, and runbooks

Where it gets technically interesting

• Multi-cluster Kubernetes environments where capacity planning and autoscaling require more than default configurations
• Terraform-managed infrastructure spanning several cloud accounts and environments
• CI/CD pipelines supporting multiple engineering teams and frequent production releases
• Zero-downtime deployment strategies for services with strict availability requirements
• Observability across distributed services where individual metrics do not always reveal the source of a problem
• Cloud cost optimisation across infrastructure that has grown quickly
• Production incident management in a regulated financial environment
• Balancing security and compliance requirements with engineering autonomy and delivery speed

What we're looking for

• 4+ years of experience in a DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE role
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production
• Solid experience designing and maintaining infrastructure with Terraform
• Strong Linux and networking fundamentals
• Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines
• Good knowledge of cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability tools
• Understanding of container security, secrets management, and infrastructure access controls
• Experience managing production incidents from detection through resolution and follow-up
• Ability to troubleshoot issues across applications, containers, networks, and cloud services
• Experience working with Git, code reviews, and automated testing
• Clear communication with software engineers, security teams, and other technical stakeholders

The company

A growing fintech platform processing payments across the UK and European Union. The company has more than 300 employees and operates in a regulated environment where infrastructure reliability, security, and traceability are essential.

The platform continues to scale across services, transaction volumes, and engineering teams.

Private health cover, pension contribution, and flexible, remote-friendly working.

Languages: Professional or native English.