Devops Engineer

The French Sourcer; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health cover

Pension contribution

Remote-friendly working

Job summary

The French Sourcer is seeking a DevOps Engineer to build and operate scalable cloud infrastructure in a UK-based role. You will manage multi-cluster Kubernetes, implement Terraform-managed resources, and drive CI/CD pipelines across engineering teams.

You will own monitoring, security and cost-optimisation while collaborating with security and software teams to ensure compliant, reliable deployments in a remote-friendly UK setting.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in a DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE role.
• Proven hands-on Kubernetes production experience.
• Solid infrastructure design and maintenance with Terraform.
• Strong Linux and networking fundamentals.
• Experience building/operating CI/CD pipelines.
• Cloud experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting and observability tools.
• Knowledge of container security, secrets management, and access controls.
• Experience managing production incidents end-to-end.
• Ability to troubleshoot across apps, containers, networks, and cloud services.
• Proficient with Git, code reviews, and automated testing.
• Clear communication with software engineers and security teams.

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, runbooks and procedures.

Skills

Kubernetes in production

Terraform

Linux fundamentals

Networking fundamentals

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud platforms

Observability tools

Security and access controls

Incident response

Git & code reviews

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD Tools

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.