Senior DevOps Engineer — Cloud Infra Owner (Hybrid Belfast)

Ocho People; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health insurance

Company pension scheme

25 days annual leave

Job summary

Ocho People is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to own cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and platform reliability for a fast-growing fintech startup. You will shape architecture, introduce tooling, and set standards across the engineering org while collaborating with software, security, and leadership.

You will work in a regulated environment with autonomy, ownership of infrastructure, and a strong emphasis on automation and scalability. This role is hybrid with 2–3 days in Belfast.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in a DevOps, platform engineering, or SRE role.
• Deep, practical AWS expertise across core services (EC2, EKS, RDS, IAM, VPC).
• Strong Kubernetes and Docker experience, including production-grade cluster management.
• Comfortable with Terraform or equivalent IaC tooling for provisioning and managing cloud resources.
• Proven experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar).
• Comfortable working in a regulated environment, with an awareness of security and compliance requirements.
• Right to work in the UK without sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS, using Terraform and infrastructure-as-code principles throughout.
• Own and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines to support rapid, reliable software delivery across multiple teams.
• Lead container orchestration using Kubernetes, ensuring deployment strategies are resilient and operationally sound.
• Drive security and compliance best practices across the infrastructure, supporting the company's obligations in a regulated financial environment.
• Build and maintain observability, monitoring, and alerting stacks so the team has clear visibility into platform health at all times.
• Identify and eliminate manual processes through automation, reducing toil and freeing up engineering capacity.
• Collaborate closely with software engineers to embed DevOps culture, providing tooling, guidance, and support across squads.
• Contribute to incident response and post-incident reviews, helping the team learn and improve continuously.

Skills

5+ years DevOps/SRE experience

AWS (EC2, EKS, RDS, IAM, VPC)

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Security & compliance

Right to work in the UK

Tools

Kubernetes cluster management

Docker

Terraform

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

AWS IAM/VPC services

Job description

Ocho People is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to own cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and platform reliability for a fast-growing fintech startup. You will shape architecture, introduce tooling, and set standards across the engineering org while collaborating with software, security, and leadership.

You will work in a regulated environment with autonomy, ownership of infrastructure, and a strong emphasis on automation and scalability. This role is hybrid with 2–3 days in Belfast.