Senior DevOps Engineer – Cloud Infra, CI/CD & Resilience

Lorum; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible vacation policy

Private Healthcare

Employee stock ownership (ESOP)

Flexible working and autonomy

2 annual pay it forward days

Wellness days

Job summary

Lorum is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to own and enhance the cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability for our London-based clearing platform. You will collaborate with backend engineers and Security to improve safety, observability and recoverability while shaping engineering standards.

You will design AWS infrastructure as code, implement Git-driven Terraform automation, and build robust GitHub Actions pipelines.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience operating production cloud infrastructure on AWS.
• Strong Terraform: writing modules, managing state and workspaces.
• Practical experience with Atlantis or equivalent for Git-driven Terraform automation.
• Hands-on experience building CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions or Workflows.
• Solid Linux, networking and container fundamentals (Docker), with Kubernetes or ECS experience.
• A strong testing and automation mindset: infrastructure tests, integration tests and pre-deploy checks.
• Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus/Grafana, Datadog, ELK or similar).
• Security and compliance awareness: IAM, VPC, KMS and secrets management.
• Clear communicator and cross-functional collaborator, comfortable with incidents.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain AWS infrastructure as code with Terraform, including state management and Git-driven workflows for safe, auditable changes.
• Build and run GitHub Actions pipelines for build, test, release and infrastructure deployment, with fast pre-merge checks and reliable environments for engineers.
• Run production services: on-call, incident response, post-mortems and capacity planning, focusing on resilience and failover.
• Instrument systems with metrics, logs and traces, using telemetry to drive reliability improvements.
• Collaborate with Security and GRC on SOC 2 / ISO 27001 requirements: secure deployments, secrets management, IAM, encryption at rest and in transit.
• Automate repetitive operational work, build self-service tooling and runbooks for developers, review infrastructure changes and raise engineering standards.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Linux

Networking

Kubernetes/ECS

Observability mindset

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

Docker

Prometheus/Grafana

Datadog/ELK

Job description

Lorum is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to own and enhance the cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability for our London-based clearing platform. You will collaborate with backend engineers and Security to improve safety, observability and recoverability while shaping engineering standards.

You will design AWS infrastructure as code, implement Git-driven Terraform automation, and build robust GitHub Actions pipelines.