Lead DevOps Engineer (AWS/Snowflake)

Luxoft; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Luxoft is seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer to build and operate cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines for a Snowflake-based data platform. You will ensure secure, scalable environments and collaborate with data engineers to enable continuous delivery across dev/test/prod.

Key responsibilities include IaC (Terraform), CI/CD with GitHub Actions/GitLab/Azure DevOps, and strong monitoring. Knowledge of security, IAM, and compliance in financial contexts is valued.

Qualifications

• Experience with Snowflake
• DevOps & Cloud Engineering
• Strong experience in DevOps or platform engineering roles
• Hands-on experience with AWS
• Proven use of infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform)
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps
• Strong understanding of version control (Git) and release management practices
• Data Platform Awareness
• Experience supporting data platforms or data engineering team
• Understanding of ELT/ETL pipelines and data workflows
• Monitoring & Operation
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, cloud-native)
• Strong troubleshooting and incident management skills
• Security
• Knowledge of cloud security best practices, IAM, and secrets management
• Awareness of compliance requirements in regulated environments

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure & Platform Engineering: design and manage cloud infrastructure supporting Snowflake and data services
• CI/CD & Automation: build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automate deployment and release management
• Snowflake Enablement: provision Snowflake environments, manage RBAC and secrets, collaborate with data engineers
• Monitoring & Reliability: implement monitoring, ensure high availability and troubleshoot production issues
• Security & Compliance: embed security practices, manage secrets and access controls for regulatory needs
• Collaboration & Best Practices: set deployment standards, document processes, promote DevOps culture

Skills

Snowflake

DevOps

ELT/ETL understanding

Monitoring & incidents

Security practices

Tools

AWS

Terraform

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Azure DevOps

Git

Datadog

Prometheus

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Project description

We are looking for a skilled DevOps Engineer to build and operate the cloud infrastructure, automation, and deployment pipelines underpinning our next-generation Snowflake data warehouse and integration platform.This role is critical to ensuring our data platform is secure, scalable, and reliably delivered through modern DevOps practices. You will work closely with data engineers, architects, and the project team to enable continuous delivery, environment consistency, and operational excellence across the platform.

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure & Platform Engineeringo Design and manage cloud infrastructure supporting Snowflake and associated data serviceso Implement infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform or CloudFormationo Ensure environments (dev/test/prod) are consistent, secure, and scalable
• CI/CD & Automationo Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for data platform components (e.g., Snowflake objects, dbt models, ingestion pipelines)o Automate deployment, testing, and promotion of code across environmentso Integrate version control and release management processes
• Snowflake Enablemento Support automated provisioning and configuration of Snowflake environmentso Manage role-based access control, secrets, and environment isolationo Collaborate with data engineers to optimize deployment patterns for Snowflake workloads
• Monitoring & Reliabilityo Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting across the data platformo Ensure high availability and performance of pipelines and integrationso Troubleshoot production issues and drive root cause analysis
• Security & Complianceo Embed security best practices across infrastructure and pipelineso Manage secrets, encryption, and access controls in line with financial services standardso Support audit and compliance requirements for client and regulatory needs
• Collaboration & Best Practiceso Work closely with engineering teams to promote DevOps culture and practiceso Define standards for deployment, branching, and environment managemento Contribute to documentation and knowledge sharing across the team

SKILLS

Must have

• o Experience with Snowflake
• DevOps & Cloud Engineeringo Strong experience in DevOps or platform engineering roleso Hands-on experience with AWSo Proven use of infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform)
• CI/CD & Toolingo Experience building CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOpso Strong understanding of version control (Git) and release management practices
• Data Platform Awarenesso Experience supporting data platforms or data engineering teamso Understanding of ELT/ETL pipelines and data workflows
• Monitoring & Operationso Experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or cloud-native services)o Strong troubleshooting and incident management skills
• Securityo Knowledge of cloud security best practices, IAM, and secrets managemento Awareness of compliance requirements in regulated environments

Nice to have

Experience with dbt and modern data stack tooling Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) Exposure to streaming or real-time data technologies (e.g., Kafka) Experience in financial services or asset management environments