Senior DevOps Consultant

JR United Kingdom; London; Remote; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading startup in London is seeking a Senior DevOps Consultant to establish a robust infrastructure for their product. This remote role offers the chance to shape DevOps practices from the ground up, with high trust and autonomy. Ideal candidates will have proven experience in startup environments and be comfortable with modern tooling and practices.

Benefits

High trust and autonomy

Direct access to decision-makers

Strategic input valued

Potential for long-term collaboration

Remote-friendly

Qualifications

• Proven experience bootstrapping infrastructure for early-stage products.
• Deeply hands-on, capable of scoping, building, and delivering independently.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement a robust, scalable infrastructure foundation.
• Collaborate closely with a technical founder and CEO.

Skills

GitOps

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

Communication

Tools

GitHub Actions

Helm

EKS

Job description

Senior DevOps Consultant (Remote)

Contract | 1 week (With Option to Extend) | £400-500/day

We're working with a lean, product-focused startup that's currently transitioning into the next phase of growth. The team is seeking an experienced Senior or Principal DevOps Consultant to help design and implement a robust, scalable infrastructure foundation.

What we're looking for

We need a strategic, hands-on DevOps expert with experience in startup environments, confident in building reusable patterns to support future services. You will collaborate closely with a technical founder and CEO to architect smart, scalable systems suitable for a lean team, including practices like GitOps, Helm, Terragrunt, EKS, and modern CI/CD.

This role is about building from day one to enable rapid deployment, scalability, and maintainability, not legacy maintenance.

Tech Stack

• AWS & EKS
• Terraform & Terragrunt
• GitHub Actions (CI/CD)
• Helm
• GitOps workflows

Ideal Profile

• Proven experience bootstrapping infrastructure for early-stage products
• Deeply hands-on, capable of scoping, building, and delivering independently
• Comfortable refactoring and modularizing setups to create clean, replicable patterns
• Pragmatic with a startup mindset: low overhead, high impact
• Clear communicator of trade-offs and decisions
• Experience working with startups or small companies

Why Join This Project

• Shape DevOps practices from the ground up
• High trust and autonomy with direct access to decision-makers
• Strategic input valued, not just implementation
• Potential for long-term collaboration
• Remote-friendly (core team based in London)

Engagement & Process

• Start: ASAP
• Interview: Informal, 30-minute technical conversation to explore thinking and scope potential involvement

This is a great opportunity to help build the DevOps backbone of an ambitious product. If you enjoy clean setups, modern tooling, and working closely with founders, we'd love to hear from you.