Senior DevOps Engineer — Cloud, CI/CD & Observability

Encord; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary & equity

London office culture – in-person 4+ d

25 days annual leave

Learning & development budget

Travel for customer visits and events

Company lunches

Team socials & offsites

Job summary

Encord, the universal data layer for AI, is seeking a DevOps Engineer with 4+ years to join our platform engineering team in London. You’ll be embedded in squads building and operating Encord’s core infrastructure, ensuring performance, reliability, observability and scalability.

You’ll drive automation, design cloud infrastructure on GCP/AWS, manage Kubernetes, implement SLOs/SLAs, and champion IaC, monitoring, and incident response while partnering with multiple teams.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of hands-on DevOps or SRE experience in production.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation at scale.
• Proficiency with IaC tools and cloud platforms (GCP/AWS).

Responsibilities

• Own and continuously improve deployment pipelines; collaborate with developers on infrastructure changes.
• Design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure on GCP and AWS; manage Kubernetes clusters and networking.
• Drive automation and internal tooling to boost developer productivity and reduce manual toil.
• Profile and optimize services for large-scale data pipelines; establish performance benchmarks.
• Define and own SLIs/SLOs/SLAs; build alerting, runbooks, and incident response processes.
• Instrument services with distributed tracing, logging, and metrics; ensure observability before production.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

IaC (Terraform/Pulumi)

Observability

Distributed systems

Networking

Databases

Cloud platforms (GCP/AWS)

SRE/Reliability engineering

Python

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

GCP

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Encord, the universal data layer for AI, is seeking a DevOps Engineer with 4+ years to join our platform engineering team in London. You’ll be embedded in squads building and operating Encord’s core infrastructure, ensuring performance, reliability, observability and scalability.

You’ll drive automation, design cloud infrastructure on GCP/AWS, manage Kubernetes, implement SLOs/SLAs, and champion IaC, monitoring, and incident response while partnering with multiple teams.