DevOps Engineer (CIMAR)

Aidence; Greater London; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

DeepHealth is seeking a hands-on DevOps Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team in Greater London. The role focuses on evolving AWS-based infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms (EKS or similar), CI/CD tooling, and operational processes to improve reliability, security, and efficiency across development teams.

You will design and maintain IaC with Terraform, manage container pipelines, monitor health, and drive incident resolution while keeping documentation up to date and costs optimized.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience (required).
• Hands-on scripting in Python, Bash, or similar for automation (required).
• Experience managing Kubernetes clusters in production environments (required).
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform (required).
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services (EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, and related) (required).
• 5+ years of experience in a DevOps, platform engineering, or cloud infrastructure role (required).
• Security-conscious approach to infrastructure design and operations (required).
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals including DNS, load balancing, firewalls, and VPNs (required).
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or equivalent (required).
• AWS certification (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Solutions Architect)

Responsibilities

• The DevOps Engineer is a hands-on engineering role within the Platform Engineering team, responsible for supporting and evolving DeepHealth’s AWS-based infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD tooling, and operational processes
• Working closely with the Senior Platform Engineer, this role focuses on infrastructure automation, cloud operations, platform reliability, and continuous improvement
• The DevOps Engineer helps development teams deliver software efficiently while ensuring DeepHealth’s infrastructure remains secure, scalable, and resilient
• Design, build, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code tooling (Terraform or equivalent)
• Manage and improve Kubernetes platforms (EKS or similar), including cluster configuration, scaling, upgrades, and reliability
• Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines to support fast, reliable software delivery across development teams
• Monitor platform health and performance, respond to incidents, and drive root cause analysis and resolution to maintain high availability
• Automate operational processes and repetitive tasks to reduce toil and improve team efficiency
• Implement and maintain cloud security best practices including IAM policies, network security, secrets management, and vulnerability scanning
• Support development teams with platform tooling, onboarding to infrastructure services, and resolving environment-level issues
• Manage container image pipelines and registry, including security scanning and lifecycle management
• Maintain clear and up-to-date documentation of infrastructure, processes, runbooks, and architectural decisions
• Contribute to cost monitoring and optimisation across cloud services, identifying inefficiencies and recommending improvements
• Communicates, cooperates, and consistently functions professionally and harmoniously with all levels of supervision, co-workers, visitors, and vendors
• Demonstrates initiative, personal awareness, professionalism and integrity, and exercises confidentiality in all areas of performance
• Follows all local, regional and country laws concerning employment
• Follows all DeepHealth policies and procedures
• Follows data privacy, compliance, safety and confidentiality standards at all times
• Practices universal safety precautions
• Promotes good public relations on the phone and in person
• Adapts and is willing to learn new tasks, methods, and systems
• Reports to work regularly as scheduled; consistently punctual with respect to working hours, meal and rest breaks, and maintains satisfactory personal attendance in accordance with DeepHealth guidelines
• Completes job responsibilities in a quality and timely manner

Skills

GitOps practices

Observability tooling

Python/Bash scripting

Kubernetes in production

AWS certification

Networking fundamentals

CI/CD pipelines

Security-conscious infrastructure

Regulated industry experience

Cloud security best practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Terraform

ArgoCD

Flux

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

EKS

Job description

Responsibilities

• The DevOps Engineer is a hands‑on engineering role within the Platform Engineering team, responsible for supporting and evolving DeepHealth’s AWS‑based infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD tooling, and operational processes
• Working closely with the Senior Platform Engineer, this role focuses on infrastructure automation, cloud operations, platform reliability, and continuous improvement
• The DevOps Engineer plays an important part in helping development teams deliver software efficiently while ensuring that DeepHealth’s infrastructure remains secure, scalable, and resilient
• Design, build, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code tooling (Terraform or equivalent), ensuring consistency, repeatability, and version control
• Manage and improve Kubernetes platforms (EKS or similar), including cluster configuration, scaling, upgrades, and reliability
• Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines to support fast, reliable software delivery across development teams
• Monitor platform health and performance, respond to incidents, and drive root cause analysis and resolution to maintain high availability
• Automate operational processes and repetitive tasks to reduce toil and improve team efficiency
• Implement and maintain cloud security best practices including IAM policies, network security, secrets management, and vulnerability scanning
• Support development teams with platform tooling, onboarding to infrastructure services, and resolving environment‑level issues
• Manage container image pipelines and registry, including security scanning and lifecycle management
• Maintain clear and up‑to‑date documentation of infrastructure, processes, runbooks, and architectural decisions
• Contribute to cost monitoring and optimisation across cloud services, identifying inefficiencies and recommending improvements
• Communicates, cooperates, and consistently functions professionally and harmoniously with all levels of supervision, co‑workers, visitors, and vendors
• Demonstrates initiative, personal awareness, professionalism and integrity, and exercises confidentiality in all areas of performance
• Follows all local, regional and country laws concerning employment
• Follows all DeepHealth policies and procedures
• Follows data privacy, compliance, safety and confidentiality standards at all times
• Practices universal safety precautions
• Promotes good public relations on the phone and in person
• Adapts and is willing to learn new tasks, methods, and systems
• Reports to work regularly as scheduled; consistently punctual with respect to working hours, meal and rest breaks, and maintains satisfactory personal attendance in accordance with DeepHealth guidelines
• Completes job responsibilities in a quality and timely manner

Qualifications

• Familiarity with GitOps practices and tooling (e.g., ArgoCD, Flux)
• Experience with observability and monitoring tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar)
• Experience in a regulated industry such as healthcare or finance
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience (required)
• Scripting skills in Python, Bash, or similar for automation (required)
• AWS certification (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Solutions Architect)
• Experience managing Kubernetes clusters in production environments (required)
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform (required)
• Hands‑on experience with AWS cloud services (EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, and related) (required)
• 5+ years of experience in a DevOps, platform engineering, or cloud infrastructure role (required)
• Security‑conscious approach to infrastructure design and operations (required)
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals including DNS, load balancing, firewalls, and VPNs (required)
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or equivalent (required)

This position often requires sitting, standing, walking, bending, twisting, reaching with hands and arms, using hands and fingers, handling, or feeling, speaking, listening, and high‑level cognitive thinking. Also, must be able to lift up to 10 pounds occasionally.