Infrastructure DevOps Engineer - Kubernetes, Observability

Byteful; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 36,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company pension

Casual dress

Sick pay

Job summary

Byteful in Manchester is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to accelerate our internal platform. You will build CI pipelines, observability, and run our Kubernetes cluster in production, empowering engineers to ship with confidence.

You will own the fleet of nodes, manage cloud providers, and drive SOC 2 compliance while balancing speed and safety. This in-person role offers a competitive salary and a company bonus within a bootstrapped, profitable startup.

Qualifications

• 1–5 years of experience running production infrastructure.
• Experience designing and scaling distributed systems, with opinions about what breaks first.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes and production experience, not just deployment.
• Experience with Prometheus and OpenTelemetry.
• Strong networking and Linux fundamentals.
• Ability to take a problem from idea to implementation to monitoring, and document it so the team can operate it without you.
• Comfort with the ambiguity of an early stage company and ability to pick what matters without being told.

Responsibilities

• Build and develop CI pipelines such that every engineer is empowered to take their code from development to production
• Build the observability and alerting pipelines to find problems before customers do and give the team confidence in what they ship
• Run our Kubernetes cluster in production, owning the full management from upgrades to provisioning
• Manage our fleet of bare metal nodes and cloud instances across multiple cloud providers and datacenters
• Build and operate the internal tools the team relies on every day
• Lead and maintain SOC 2 compliance for our infrastructure, from access reviews and change management to the evidence that backs them up, without slowing anyone down
• Integrate agentic workflows and infrastructure to support agent-led software development
• Willingness and availability to support on-call hours

Skills

Linux fundamentals

Networking

Documentation

On-call readiness

Tools

Kubernetes

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Go

Python

Job description

Byteful in Manchester is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to accelerate our internal platform. You will build CI pipelines, observability, and run our Kubernetes cluster in production, empowering engineers to ship with confidence.

You will own the fleet of nodes, manage cloud providers, and drive SOC 2 compliance while balancing speed and safety. This in-person role offers a competitive salary and a company bonus within a bootstrapped, profitable startup.