Senior DevOps Engineer New London, UK

Ripple Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Bonuses and equity

Comprehensive benefits

Professional development budget

Parental leave

Job summary

Ripple is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, DevOps to advance infrastructure, release pipelines, and production operations. You will shape developer infrastructure, manage multi-region deployments, and drive automation across CI/CD, monitoring, and platform services.

You will collaborate with product engineering to ensure production readiness, advocate DevOps-first practices, and contribute to scalable, reliable systems in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform or Infra engineering.
• Cloud infra management across Azure and AWS.
• Strong Kubernetes expertise and Docker/OCI.
• IaC tools like Terraform, Azure Bicep, AWS CloudFormation.
• Understanding of automation, reliability, scalability, and availability.
• Experience in CI/CD pipelines and environment provisioning.
• Scripting in Bash/Python; Linux networking.
• Agile, cross-functional collaboration and strong communication.

Responsibilities

• Develop, deploy, and maintain Ripple’s multi-region platforms.
• Build automation, monitoring, and instrumentation tools.
• Collaborate with wider teams on adoption and improvements.
• Automate lifecycle services with data-driven state management.
• Ensure code is production-ready with product engineering.
• Promote DevOps-first principles across the organization.

Skills

DevOps experience

Platform engineering

Automation

CI/CD practices

Agile collaboration

Communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

OCI runtimes

Terraform

Azure Bicep

AWS CloudFormation

Job description

Please note this is for London, UK. You only need toapply to one location if there are multiple listed for the job.

At Ripple, we’re building a world where value moves like information does today. It’s big, it’s bold, and we’re already doing it. Through our crypto solutions for financial institutions, businesses, governments and developers, we are improving the global financial system and creating greater economic fairness and opportunity for more people, in more places around the world. And we get to do the best work of our career and grow our skills surrounded by colleagues who have our backs.

If you’re ready to see your impact and unlock incredible career growth opportunities, join us, and build real world value.

THE WORK:

The Senior Software Engineer, DevOps will contribute to the discovery, development, and implementation of solutions to improve infrastructure and release pipelines. These solutions will include developer infrastructure, production infrastructure layout and maintenance, capacity and load testing, CI/CD infrastructure, and release process automation. You will push the boundaries with new tools and technologies and use a data-driven approach for achieving desired results. You will play a critical role helping to advance Ripple's development and production infrastructure, improving our DevOps process including deployment, monitoring, instrumentation and overall infrastructure management.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Develop, deploy, and maintain Ripple’s multi-region, multi-provider service platforms
• Supply build and development of tools for automation, monitoring, and instrumentation to reduce operational friction and increase engineering efficiency
• Work with wider engineering teams on implementation, adoption, and continuous improvements
• Build and automate new and existing platform and application lifecycle services, using data to converge on declared states with minimal human interaction
• Collaborate with product engineering to ensure code is production-ready
• Participate in the adoption of DevOps-first principles within the organization

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

• 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Extensive hands‑on experience managing cloud infrastructure, deployments, and large-scale, multi‑region distributed systems, preferably on Azure and AWS
• Strong proficiency in Kubernetes and experience managing container orchestration platforms and runtimes, including Docker and OCI.
• Hands‑on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform , Azure Bicep and AWS CloudFormation.
• Strong understanding of platform engineering fundamentals, including automation, reliability, scalability, high availability, and operational excellence.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, including automated environment provisioning, regression testing, and containerized build and deployment workflows.
• Experience managing artifact repositories and storage systems for build dependencies and pipeline artifacts.
• Strong knowledge of Linux operating systems, networking fundamentals, and scripting languages such as Bash and Python.
• Experience operating, administering, and troubleshooting production infrastructure, with a focus on performance, security, and reliability.
• Experience working in Agile development environments and collaborating with cross‑functional engineering teams.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a team‑oriented mindset.

WHO WE ARE:

Do Your Best Work

• The opportunity to build in a fast‑paced start‑up environment with experienced industry leaders
• A learning environment where you can dive deep into the latest technologies and make an impact. A professional development budget to support other modes of learning.
• Thrive in an environment where no matter what race, ethnicity, gender, origin, or culture they identify with, every employee is a respected, valued, and empowered part of the team.
• In‑office collaboration for moments that matter is important to our culture, and we give managers and teams the flexibility to decide which 10+ days a month they come in.
• Bi‑weekly all-company meeting - business updates and ask me anything style discussion with our Leadership Team
• We come together for moments that matter which include team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours and more!

Take Control of Your Finances

• Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity
• Competitive benefits that cover physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
• Employee giving match

Take Care of Yourself

• R&R days so you can rest and recharge
• Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
• Generous vacation policy - work with your manager to take time off when you need it
• Industry-leading parental leave policies. Family planning benefits.
• Catered lunches, fully‑stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages, and plenty of fun events

Benefits listed above are for full‑time employees.

Ripple is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We do not discriminate against qualified employees or applicants because of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other characteristic protected by local law or ordinance.