Senior DevOps Engineer

Xiatech; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work flexibility

Office in Fitzrovia, Central London

Culture-first environment

Job summary

Xiatech in London is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design and operate production cloud platforms at scale, collaborating with software engineers to automate infrastructure and CI/CD using cloud-native principles.

You will drive SRE practices, onboarding for new customers, and ensure security, reliability and cost efficiency across GCP, Kubernetes, Docker and data services.

Qualifications

• At least 5+ years of experience designing and operating production GCP and Kubernetes platforms.
• Strong experience with cloud-native architectures and tools, including AWS services and serverless.
• Proven leadership in design and operational service design of mission-critical platforms.
• Experience with high throughput distributed systems and microservices (Pulsar, Kafka, RedPanda).
• Knowledge of Terraform and infrastructure as code.
• Experience provisioning big data tech: MongoDB, DataBricks, BigQuery, Hadoop, Spark, Trino.

Responsibilities

• Build and configure new development tools and infrastructure.
• Automate development and release processes across provisioning and scale-out.
• Identify technical problems and develop updates and fixes.
• Guide the team in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices for the platform.
• Define onboarding processes for new customers to ensure a seamless experience.
• Test code and analyze results; contribute to roadmap items and security efforts.

Skills

Teamwork

Communication

Problem-solving

Agile experience

Analytical

Time management

Capacity to learn

Creative thinking

Leadership

Tools

GCP

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CircleCI

ArgoCD

GitHub

Go

Bash

Python

YAML/JSON

Job description

Xiatech is the pioneer of Xfuze, the world's first AI-powered composable Integration, Data Management, Analytics and Orchestration Platform that innovatively connects systems, creates a single view of data and delivers actionable insights in one cloud-native, SaaS solution. Business, technology and data teams use Xfuze to shorten time-to-insights, accelerate digital transformation, and extend the value of their legacy technology investments.

We're a culture-first organisation and put our people at the forefront of everything we do. We believe that a great working environment leads to a happy and productive team which is why we offer our staff the flexibility to work remote or from our beautiful office in Fitzrovia, Central London.

The Role

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will combine aspects of systems design and administration at scale in the Cloud. You will work closely with our software engineers to assist in developing infrastructure orchestration, and continuous integration systems.

Adding automation to support both infrastructure and code deployment, built using cloud native principles, with scalability baked in.

As a crucial and influential member of the Xiatech platform team the Senior DevOps Engineer will report to the Lead DevOps Engineer and work with the Director Of Product and Architecture, Product Owners, Product Architects and Principal Engineers to set, design and build the strategic vision for the underlying Cloud Infrastructure and Operational Capabilities of the Xfuze Platform.

With a natural knack of diagnosing problems and identifying solutions, you will be well versed in creating resilient systems with builtin failover safety.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a driven individual looking for a role which will have a genuine impact from day one in a rapidly expanding organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Building and configuring new development tools and infrastructure
• Ensure that all critical platform processes from provisioning to scale out maintain and continuously improve to a high level of automation avoiding reactive problem solving. Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes
• Identifying technical problems and developing software updates and 'fixes'
• Guide the team in the provision of best in class Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) capability and practices as it relates to the platform
• Help define and implement the onboarding process for new customers to the platform from the platform infrastructure and automation perspective to create a seamless experience
• Testing and examining code written by others and analysing results

Security

• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
• Ensure the platform maintains comprehensive security (Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability) requirements in accordance with the CISO and CDO.
• Participate hands-on in the implementation of the roadmap items marshalling these items to production and guiding team members where required.

Working with the developers, QA and other team members

• Working with software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
• Understand the needs of Engineers and Test Teams in relation to the platform roadmap priorities to ensure an infrastructure strategy that continuously compounds engineering productivity and effectiveness.

Sizing, forecasting and Finops

• Define strong financial control capabilities for platform instances and contribute to price performance optimisation of infrastructure and software
• Lead the right sizing, capacity planning and capacity forecasting efforts for the platform

Your Knowledge & Experience

• The Senior DevOps Engineer will have at least 5+ years experience designing and operating production GCP Public Cloud and Kubernetes based platforms and a vast experience with cloud native architectures and tools. Broad use of AWS services, serverless (Lambda, ECS, ApiGateWay), network Infrastructure, and service monitoring.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (VPC, PSC, GKE, Cloud Armour)
• Strong Kubernetes and Docker experience
• Proven experience leading the strategic technical design and operational service design of a mission critical big data or microservices platform. Must have a strong background of leading the design and build of externally facing infrastructure in Cloud services particularly GCP.
• Experience in high throughput distributed systems & Microservices, ideally real-time event processing systems at scale; such as Pulsar, Kafka, RedPanda.
• Must have knowledge and experience automatically provisioning and supporting multiple big data technologies; such as MongoDB, DataBricks, Big Query, Hadoop, Spark, Trino, DataLakes/Lakehouse Architectures.
• Infrastructure management with Terraform
• Experience with Github or any other source control
• Knowledge of Scripting/Coding languages - Go, Bash, Python
• Confident working with Yaml and Json files
• Any CI/CD tool (CircleCI, ArgoCD Preferred)
• Systems integration across Cloud providers
• Experience with AWS databases , RDS, DynamoDB, DocumentDB - but not necessarily a DBA
• Excellent teamwork and communication skills
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Excellent organisational and time management skills, and the ability to work on multiple projects at the same time
• Experience of working with Agile teams, and principles
• Excellent diagnostic and analytical troubleshooting skill
• Ideally some experience with security and ISO27001

Your Personality

• Energetic & driven
• Resilient
• Insightful
• Creative
• Sound judgement
• Analytical
• Capacity to learn

If you receive an offer of employment, this will be conditional upon satisfactory completion of a right to work & identity check, a reference check and a basic criminal record check for any unspent convictions.

Xiatech is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind.