Senior DevOps Engineer | High-Perf Infra, Equity

Understanding Recruitment; Greater London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

UK visa sponsorship

Equity

Performance-based bonus

Job summary

Understanding Recruitment is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer in London to help build and optimize production infrastructure and tooling. The role covers CI/CD, automation, observability, and production reliability, with hands-on work on Linux, networking and performance.

You will influence engineering practices and tooling while owning critical operational improvements. The platform is evolving, offering opportunities to enhance automation and scale in a fast-paced environment with equity and

Qualifications

• Extensive DevOps/ platform engineering or SRE experience in production environments.
• Strong Linux/networking fundamentals with cloud infrastructure expertise.
• Proficient in CI/CD, automation, monitoring and incident handling.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.
• Automate infrastructure and operational processes.
• Increase reliability and operability of production systems.
• Develop monitoring, logging, tracing, dashboards and alerting.
• Improve incident diagnosis and root cause analysis.
• Develop internal tooling to reduce repetitive work.
• Enhance developer experience from local to production.
• Work with Linux systems, networking, host config and resources.
• Contribute to security, access controls and secrets management.
• Identify and drive improvements for reliability and performance.

Skills

DevOps

Platform Engineering

SRE

Infra Engineering

Cloud Infrastructure

Linux Networking

CI/CD

Infrastructure Automation

Monitoring

Observability

Alerting

Root Cause Analysis

AWS

Terraform

Ansible

Latency-sensitive Systems

Ownership

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Understanding Recruitment is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer in London to help build and optimize production infrastructure and tooling. The role covers CI/CD, automation, observability, and production reliability, with hands-on work on Linux, networking and performance.

You will influence engineering practices and tooling while owning critical operational improvements. The platform is evolving, offering opportunities to enhance automation and scale in a fast-paced environment with equity and