Senior DevOps Engineer: Cloud, Kubernetes & AI Platform

SBS; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

SBS is seeking a DevOps Engineer to operate across both cloud and on‑prem environments, supporting reliability, scalability, automation, and security for Digital Engagement products while helping to build and industrialize the AI Platform.

This hands‑on role focuses on improving developer productivity, strengthening cloud and container platforms, and enabling production‑grade services in a regulated banking context. Collaboration with cross‑functional teams is essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or a closely related role.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and containerization/orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and working with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and performance tuning for production systems.
• Ability to troubleshoot both application and infrastructure issues in complex distributed environments.
• Strong understanding of software quality, security, automation, and operational reliability principles.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with remote, cross-functional, and international teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, maintain, and improve cloud and containerized infrastructure supporting Digital Engagement products and the SBS AI Platform.
• Define, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines to accelerate delivery and ensure reliable releases.
• Contribute to infrastructure-as-code, environment standardization, deployment automation, and platform engineering practices.
• Support Kubernetes-based workloads and high-availability services with resilience and zero-downtime deployment approaches.
• Establish monitoring, logging, alerting, and performance management for business-critical digital products and AI services.
• Collaborate with software, platform, AI, and product teams to troubleshoot issues and improve production readiness.
• Shape infrastructure strategy, security posture, deployment standards, and operational tooling in line with regulatory requirements.
• Investigate and introduce new tools and practices to improve deployment efficiency and developer productivity.

Skills

DevOps experience

Cloud familiarity

Collaboration

Remote collaboration

Education

Academic or technical degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

SBS is seeking a DevOps Engineer to operate across both cloud and on‑prem environments, supporting reliability, scalability, automation, and security for Digital Engagement products while helping to build and industrialize the AI Platform.

This hands‑on role focuses on improving developer productivity, strengthening cloud and container platforms, and enabling production‑grade services in a regulated banking context. Collaboration with cross‑functional teams is essential.