Senior DevOps Engineer - Cloud Platform for Social Impact

Inara; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension contribution

Holiday entitlement

Enhanced maternity pay

Sick pay (4 weeks full pay)

Christmas shutdown

Job summary

Inara is seeking a senior DevOps/Platform engineer to own and evolve the cloud platform supporting a mission-driven data and research environment. You’ll work with Data and ML Engineers to design, build and secure scalable infrastructure using GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD, while embedding security and privacy by design.

This role offers meaningful impact, a competitive salary, and a fast-growing team within an NGO/Tech for Good setting in London.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a DevOps/Platform/Cloud Engineering role with senior experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with GCP; AWS or Azure also welcome.
• IaC with Terraform or OpenTofu.
• Kubernetes and containerisation in production.
• CI/CD design, ideally GitLab or Jenkins.
• Cloud networking knowledge (Shared VPC, Private Service Connect, hybrid).
• Security and compliance baked into cloud environments.
• Strong Linux background and scripting (Bash, Python).
• Motivated by technical challenge and social impact.

Responsibilities

• Own, maintain and improve the organisation's GCP infrastructure and cloud networking.
• Design and manage Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, including reusable templates and modules.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines so engineers can ship quickly and safely.
• Embed security and compliance best practice across the platform, including IAM, VPC Service Controls and private connectivity.
• Run and scale containerised workloads on Kubernetes, alongside some on-premises infrastructure.
• Partner with the Data and ML Engineers on the infrastructure behind their pipelines, BigQuery and secure data sharing.
• Contribute to the technology strategy of the organisation and drive documentation, standards and ways of working.

Skills

GCP expertise

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Linux scripting

Security compliance

Cloud networking

Python

Bash

Tools

GitLab

Jenkins

Terraform

Job description

Inara is seeking a senior DevOps/Platform engineer to own and evolve the cloud platform supporting a mission-driven data and research environment. You’ll work with Data and ML Engineers to design, build and secure scalable infrastructure using GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD, while embedding security and privacy by design.

This role offers meaningful impact, a competitive salary, and a fast-growing team within an NGO/Tech for Good setting in London.