DevOps Engineer: Cloud, Kubernetes & GitOps + Equity

Qureight; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Private medical insurance

Life insurance

Cycle-to-work

Pension scheme

Equity

Job summary

Qureight in Cambridge is seeking a DevOps Engineer to design, build and maintain our cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. You will work across production, development and ML research environments, using IaC tools and GitOps to ensure secure, auditable deployments.

You will join a small, hands-on team led by the Head of DevOps, with ownership of scalable, compliant systems in a regulated SaaS setting.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of industry experience in applied DevOps, platform or site reliability engineering.
• Strong proficiency with Linux operating systems.
• Hands-on experience with a major cloud provider (AWS preferred), including cost monitoring and management.
• Experience working with Kubernetes in a live production environment.
• Experience of GitOps working methods and deployment strategies in a live production environment.
• Experience with infrastructure as code tooling at scale (Terraform or OpenTofu preferred).
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with monitoring and logging frameworks such as CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Prometheus and Grafana.
• Ability to use scripting languages such as Bash for complex operations, and to read and understand Python code.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including writing clear technical documentation.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain cloud infrastructure as code using IaC tooling.
• Operate, upgrade and monitor Kubernetes clusters across production, development and research environments.
• Run GitOps-based deployments of our software and support release management for a validated platform with strict, versioned release cycles.
• Build, maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitLab.
• Develop monitoring, logging and alerting, and take part in incident response and root cause analysis.
• Carry out routine security maintenance and implement best practice, including patching, vulnerability remediation, secrets management and least-privilege access.
• Monitor, report on and optimise cloud costs.
• Support internal teams with solutions for their deployment and infrastructure requirements, including ML training and model deployment infrastructure.
• Write and maintain technical documentation, runbooks and change records that support our GxP, 21 CFR Part 11 and ISO/IEC 27001 obligations.

Skills

Linux

AWS

Kubernetes

GitOps

Bash

Python

CI/CD

IaC

Monitoring

Documentation

Tools

Terraform/OpenTofu

GitLab

CloudWatch

Grafana

Job description

Qureight in Cambridge is seeking a DevOps Engineer to design, build and maintain our cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. You will work across production, development and ML research environments, using IaC tools and GitOps to ensure secure, auditable deployments.

You will join a small, hands-on team led by the Head of DevOps, with ownership of scalable, compliant systems in a regulated SaaS setting.