Senior DevOps Engineer

Veezu; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading taxi technology platform in the UK seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to modernize its cloud infrastructure and enhance deployment strategies. This role involves taking ownership of the platform architecture while working with a senior engineering team to ensure reliability, security, and cost-efficiency. You'll design and maintain CI/CD pipelines, manage compliance with ISO27001, and play a vital role in shaping an efficient engineering culture. Hybrid work expected across the UK and Ireland.

Qualifications

• Deep experience in building and managing cloud infrastructure, preferably in Microsoft Azure.
• Proven track record with high-volume systems managing millions of requests.
• DevOps experience in cloud architecture and systems design.

Responsibilities

• Lead initiatives to consolidate deployment platforms into a unified cloud infrastructure on Azure.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for faster feature shipping.
• Ensure compliance with ISO27001 for Information Security standards.

Skills

Infrastructure as Code with Terraform

Cloud architecture

CI/CD processes

Strong communication skills

Collaboration with stakeholders

Adaptability

Job description

Your role at Veezu:

The Senior DevOps Engineer will be a key strategic hire in our engineering team, with a mandate to take ownership of, modernise, and transform Veezu’s cloud infrastructure and deployment processes. You’ll be working with a small but very senior group of engineers, with direct influence on our platform architecture, system reliability, and engineering culture.

Reporting directly to the VP of Engineering, this role will have significant autonomy and ownership in shaping the technical direction of the cloud strategy. You will lead the critical effort to bring consistency to our infrastructure, standardise our monitoring stack, and build world‑class deployment pipelines. Your work will have a real impact on our ability to innovate aggressively and will empower our product, operations, marketing, and support teams.

Who are Veezu?

Veezu is the UK's fastest growing taxi and private hire technology platform operating across hundreds of UK towns and cities. We are a tech‑driven on‑demand mobility service that supports our hyper‑local communities, helping them thrive and so much more!

What you'll do:

• Lead a major strategic initiative to consolidate our deployment platforms (from Heroku, Vercel, AWS) into a unified, modern and simple infrastructure on Microsoft Azure.
• Take ownership of our cloud infrastructure, improving architecture, reliability, security, scalability, and cost‑efficiency for a platform handling millions of requests hourly.
• Design, build, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines, enabling the engineering team to ship features faster and more safely.
• Define and implement a standardised monitoring and observability stack to ensure system health and rapid incident response.
• Champion and contribute to defining the team’s culture of automation, openness, curiosity, and strong communication.
• Lay the foundations for a modern engineering platform powering one of the UK’s largest mobility services.
• Play a key role in hiring and onboarding future team members as the team grows.
• Be committed to maintaining our ISO27001 certification and set high standards for Information Security compliance.

What you’ll need:

• Mastery of Infrastructure as Code with Terraform is a must‑have.
• Deep experience designing, building, and scaling resilient cloud infrastructure, preferably within a Microsoft Azure environment.
• Proven track record of managing high‑volume systems that handle millions of requests, with a strong sense for how technology drives business outcomes.
• A strong business sense combined with the ability to make sound technical trade‑offs that maximise impact.
• DevOps or Platform Engineering experience at a senior level, in cloud architecture, CI/CD, and systems design.
• Confidence working in and migrating from multi‑cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Heroku, Vercel).
• Experience managing infrastructure for payment processing or other high‑security systems is highly desirable.
• Bias toward action, thriving in an environment where speed, iteration, and ownership matter.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Curiosity, adaptability, and a drive to challenge and improve existing systems.
• Be committed to maintaining our ISO27001 certification and setting high standards for Information Security compliance.

Where you’ll be:

• This role will be hybrid, with the expectation that you will travel to and work from our hubs across the UK and Ireland as and when needed for the proper performance of your role.

Veezu is committed to fair and inclusive recruitment, welcoming applications from all backgrounds, experiences, and communities.