Remote Platform & DevOps Engineer - Terraform & Kubernetes

Bumper; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

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Bumper Allowance: £250 a year

Relax and Recharge: 26 days paid leave

Family Leave: 4 months primary carers

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Colleague Assistance Programme

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Job summary

Bumper is seeking a skilled Platform Engineer to design, build and secure scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure, with a focus on Kubernetes (EKS) and IaC automation. You will implement Terraform and Helm, optimize CI/CD pipelines, and contribute to incident response and reliability.

As part of the Platform Engineering team, you will drive SLOs, observability, and toil-reduction initiatives while collaborating with engineering squads to raise developer experience and accelerate

Qualifications

• Terraform and IaC automation experience.
• Excellent communication and calmness under pressure.
• Demonstrated use of GenAI tools in engineering workflows.
• Strong hands-on experience running Kubernetes in production.
• Experience participating in or managing production incidents and on-call.
• Monitoring, alerting, and observability proficiency.
• Incident management process improvement.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure.
• Manage and enhance our Kubernetes (EKS) platform to support reliable, modern applications.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Helm.
• Improve and support CI/CD pipelines using Argo Workflows, ArgoCD and GitHub Actions.
• Lead and participate in incident response, including on-call activities and major incident coordination.
• Drive high-quality monitoring, alerting and observability across metrics, logs and traces.
• Conduct and support blameless post-incident reviews, ensuring follow-up actions are delivered.
• Define and implement SLIs/SLOs to improve service reliability and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to embed best practices and improve developer experience.
• Contribute to automation, tooling, and continuous improvements that reduce toil and increase platform resilience.

Skills

Communication

GenAI in engineering

Incident management

DevOps / SRE

Observability

Toil reduction

Distributed systems debugging

Automation mindset

On-call experience

Platform engineering

Tools

Kubernetes (EKS)

Terraform

IaC automation

AWS

Azure

Argo Workflows

ArgoCD

GitHub Actions

Grafana Cloud

Incident management tools

Job description

Bumper is seeking a skilled Platform Engineer to design, build and secure scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure, with a focus on Kubernetes (EKS) and IaC automation. You will implement Terraform and Helm, optimize CI/CD pipelines, and contribute to incident response and reliability.

As part of the Platform Engineering team, you will drive SLOs, observability, and toil-reduction initiatives while collaborating with engineering squads to raise developer experience and accelerate