DevOps Engineer

Generative Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Generative Group is seeking a DevOps Engineer to build and evolve our production infrastructure, focusing on Kubernetes, observability and security. You will apply infrastructure-as-code practices, own critical systems, and collaborate across platform and product teams to ensure reliability as we scale.

The role emphasizes ownership, forward-thinking use of AI in engineering, and strong communication to drive safe, scalable production environments.

Qualifications

• Hands-on infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform or equivalent).
• Strong, practical Kubernetes experience and cloud-native apps familiarity (Azure preferred, AWS relevant).
• Experience scaling systems and taking responsibility for safe, reliable production infra.
• Good understanding of security, observability and production risk, with clear communication and ownership.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain and evolve production infrastructure for products.
• Strengthen observability across products and underlying systems.
• Apply sound security practices and guardrails to production environments.
• Collaborate with platform and software teams to own reliable infrastructure.

Skills

Infrastructure as code

Kubernetes

Observability

Production risk

Tools

Terraform

Azure

AWS

Job description

About the company

A growing AI-focused business, the organisation develops cloud-native products and is strengthening its platform function to support product development and launches. Its platform team builds and maintains the infrastructure and systems that underpin these products, with a focus on Kubernetes, observability, security and the reliability of production environments.

Its stated priorities include a high technical bar, strong ownership, flexibility and forward-thinking use of AI in engineering. As the business scales, it is looking for people who bring practical experience from environments that have already tackled comparable growth and can help build a robust, dependable platform.

What the job entails

As DevOps Engineer, you will build, maintain and evolve the infrastructure that supports the organisation’s products. This is a hands-on, generalist position in which you will work with infrastructure as code and Kubernetes, improve existing systems and help shape the platform as product needs develop.

You will strengthen observability across both the products and their underlying infrastructure, and support software development teams as they launch and enhance features. You will also apply sound judgement to security and production risk: helping implement systems safely, creating or improving guardrails, and explaining how to identify and correct unsafe practices.

Working closely with platform and software development colleagues, you will take ownership of reliable production infrastructure and contribute to a growing function. Experience scaling systems beyond the organisation’s current stage will be particularly valuable.

Key requirements / What we look for

• Hands-on infrastructure-as-code experience, ideally with Terraform or an equivalent.

• Strong, practical Kubernetes experience and familiarity with cloud-native applications; Azure is preferred, while AWS experience is relevant.

• Experience scaling systems beyond their current stage and taking responsibility for safe, reliable production infrastructure.

• A sound understanding of security, observability and production risk, alongside clear communication, adaptability, ownership and a forward-thinking approach to applying AI in engineering.