Senior DevOps Engineer - Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, FinOps Remote

Synthesia; Greater London; Remote; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company in the UK is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join their Cloud Infra team. The role involves maintaining and scaling Kubernetes clusters and managing AWS and GCP environments. Candidates should have strong DevOps experience, particularly with CI/CD systems and observability tools. This position is full-time and offers remote or hybrid options from UK or EU with no contract work available.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on DevOps / SRE / Platform experience in a SaaS or high-traffic product environment.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes, managing clusters.
• Proven expertise in AWS and/or GCP.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and scale Kubernetes clusters for production workloads.
• Manage AWS and GCP cloud environments balancing reliability and cost.
• Own and improve CI/CD systems utilizing GitHub Actions.

Skills

Deep hands-on DevOps / SRE / Platform experience

Strong Kubernetes experience

Proven AWS and/or GCP expertise

Proficiency with Terraform / Terragrunt

Linux proficiency

Python scripting

Strong understanding of CI/CD design patterns

Experience with Datadog

Autonomous operation in ambiguous environments

Pragmatic mindset

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Datadog

Job description

A leading tech company in the UK is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join their Cloud Infra team. The role involves maintaining and scaling Kubernetes clusters and managing AWS and GCP environments. Candidates should have strong DevOps experience, particularly with CI/CD systems and observability tools. This position is full-time and offers remote or hybrid options from UK or EU with no contract work available.