Senior DevOps Engineer

Academic Key; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days of annual leave

Private medical insurance (Bupa)

Cycle to Work Scheme

Gympass membership

Company shares program

Job summary

Radiant is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer in the United Kingdom to join an embedded engineering squad. You’ll own how the team builds, tests, ships, and runs software, collaborating with platform engineers, SRE, and Infra Ops.

The role emphasizes CI/CD pipeline ownership, automation of infrastructure as code, and strong incident-management capabilities in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Solid experience in DevOps, platform, or SRE roles.
• Strong CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code experience (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions).
• Kubernetes and containers in production.
• Scripting or coding skills, ideally in Go or Python.

Responsibilities

• Build and run CI/CD pipelines and release processes.
• Automate infrastructure and environments as code.
• Improve monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
• Make it fast and safe for engineers to ship.
• Take part in on-call and incident response.

Skills

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Kubernetes

Go/Python

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Job description

Senior DevOps Engineer

Radiant · United Kingdom

United Kingdom | Full Time

What you’ll do As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be embedded in one of our engineering teams, not in a central team, owning how that team builds, tests, ships, and runs its software. You’ll work day to day with the team’s software engineers, and closely with platform engineers, SRE, and Infra Ops. The teams Infra Network Cloud Observability MLOps Key Responsibilities Build and run CI/CD pipelines and release processes. Automate infrastructure and environments as code. Improve monitoring, alerting, and incident response. Make it fast and safe for engineers to ship. Take part in on-call and incident response. Your Profile Solid experience in DevOps, platform, or SRE roles. Strong CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code experience (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions). Kubernetes and containers in production. Scripting or coding skills, ideally in Go or Python. Calm and methodical in incidents. What You Bring Automation instinct: If you do it twice, you automate it. Engineering quality: Write clean, tested, maintainable code, and review others' work with care. Ownership: Take features from design through production, and stay accountable for how they run. Pragmatism: Ship what matters, simply, and improve it from real-world feedback. Collaboration: Work openly with product, infrastructure, SRE and customers, and share what you learn. Qualities we look for: Set the standard: Every single day, you spot opportunities to constructively shake things up Inspire the change: There’s no blueprint for the future. You’ll embrace challenges and change You’re real and you’re true to yourself: We cherish and celebrate diversity so you’ll feel right at home whoever you are and whoever you’re talking to, you treat everyone the same. Why should you join us? What sets us apart is our blend of modern technology, competitive benefits, and an open, welcoming work culture that enables our people to thrive.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and run CI/CD pipelines and release processes.
• Automate infrastructure and environments as code.
• Improve monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
• Make it fast and safe for engineers to ship.
• Take part in on-call and incident response.

Your Profile

• Solid experience in DevOps, platform, or SRE roles.
• Strong CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code experience (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions).
• Kubernetes and containers in production.
• Scripting or coding skills, ideally in Go or Python.
• Calm and methodical in incidents.

What You Bring

Automation instinct: If you do it twice, you automate it. Engineering quality: Write clean, tested, maintainable code, and review others' work with care. Ownership: Take features from design through production, and stay accountable for how they run. Pragmatism: Ship what matters, simply, and improve it from real-world feedback. Collaboration: Work openly with product, infrastructure, SRE and customers, and share what you learn.

Qualities we look for

Set the standard: Every single day, you spot opportunities to constructively shake things up. Inspire the change: There’s no blueprint for the future. You’ll embrace challenges and change. You’re real and you’re true to yourself: We cherish and celebrate diversity so you’ll feel right at home whoever you are and whoever you’re talking to, you treat everyone the same.

Why should you join us?

What sets us apart is our blend of modern technology, competitive benefits, and an open, welcoming work culture that enables our people to thrive.

Benefits

• 25 days of annual leave
• A culture that emphasises results over hierarchy, process & ego: we place great emphasis on the quality, ingenuity and creativity of work.
• Open communication, regular feedback: we value smooth collaboration, direct and actionable feedback, and believe that leading with empathy and a growth mindset makes us better together.
• Learning Time: we all have dedicated learning time to focus on new skills, projects or interests that lay outside of your day‑to‑day job.
• Health & Wellbeing: we want everyone to feel healthy and happy, so we offer private medical insurance via Bupa.
• Cycle to Work Scheme: we’re committed to building a sustainable business, so we encourage cycling to work.
• Gympass subscription to a variety of gyms and wellbeing apps
• Participation in the company shares program
• Enhanced parental pay & leave

Our process

• Talent screen
• Hiring Manager
• Technical interview (two engineers)
• Final

Company Overview

Radiant is redefining how AI infrastructure is built. We design and operate AI-native cloud platforms engineered for sovereignty, performance, and scale. Our infrastructure powers GPU-native workloads, multi-tenant control planes, and high-performance AI systems designed for the most demanding environments. We are not building a generic cloud. We are building purpose‑built AI infrastructure - from powered land, to compute, to software. As we scale, we’re building this organisation from the ground up. We’re looking for people who’d rather build the playbook than inherit one - who are comfortable doing the work themselves as well as directing others, and who can adapt as fast as our strategy does. This is a startup model: attitude and adaptability matter more to us than years of experience or the size of the team you’ve previously managed.