Senior DevOps Engineer — GCP, Kubernetes & CI/CD (Remote)

IFS; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

IFS is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join the Logistics platform. You will own substantial workstreams, improve observability and CI/CD, and partner with data engineers to ensure reliable deployments and rapid recovery.

The role focuses on building robust, secure infrastructure, cost visibility, and incident-management practices in a modern cloud environment. Hybrid in UK/Netherlands, remote-friendly teams, and a collaborative culture are offered.

Qualifications

• Strong experience running production services on GCP.
• Practical knowledge of Kubernetes and Terraform, including operating and improving infrastructure.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in GitLab or a similar platform.
• Evidence that you have instrumented a real system and improved its metrics, logging, tracing or alerting.
• Examples of treating cloud cost as an engineering concern: attributing spend and finding waste.
• Experience operating data pipelines, such as streaming ingestion and data warehouse loads.
• The confidence to challenge an unsafe change and explain what needs to happen before it can ship.
• Practical experience with AI coding tools such as Cursor or Claude, including how you provide context and verify infrastructure changes before accepting them.

Responsibilities

• Build useful observability across Django API, data pipelines and warehouse to help the team diagnose problems quickly.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines in GitLab to be fast, dependable and well-controlled.
• Reduce operational risk by tightening release controls and establishing a weekly rhythm.
• Manage cloud cost visibility by workload and product area, reducing waste without compromising service quality.
• Develop infrastructure as code using Terraform and Kubernetes for reproducible environments.
• Strengthen data-pipeline reliability with failure detection and clear ownership across Datastream, Pub/Sub, dbt and BigQuery.
• Help shape incident management and on-call practices, turning failures into automated checks and safeguards.

Skills

GCP

CI/CD

Monitoring

Cost optimization

Data pipelines

AI tools

Systems thinking

Risk management

Python

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitLab CI/CD

Cursor

Claude

Notion

Jira

Job description

IFS is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join the Logistics platform. You will own substantial workstreams, improve observability and CI/CD, and partner with data engineers to ensure reliable deployments and rapid recovery.

The role focuses on building robust, secure infrastructure, cost visibility, and incident-management practices in a modern cloud environment. Hybrid in UK/Netherlands, remote-friendly teams, and a collaborative culture are offered.