Senior DevOps Engineer — Platform & CI/CD Leader

Tempest Vane Partners; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Tempest Vane Partners in London is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team. The role focuses on CI/CD, Kubernetes, automation and platform reliability across cloud and on‑prem environments, enabling engineers, researchers and investment teams to build and run software at scale.

You will work hands‑on with software engineers to automate the SDLC, strengthen production reliability and build scalable infrastructure, with on‑call responsibilities and collaboration

Qualifications

• 7+ years in DevOps, SRE or Platform Engineering.
• Deep CI/CD experience with Jenkins, GitHub Actions or Octopus Deploy.
• Strong Kubernetes and containerisation experience.
• Infrastructure-as-Code experience, ideally Terraform.
• Experience with high-throughput, distributed systems.
• Observability and production reliability expertise.
• Experience building or supporting REST APIs.
• Comfortable across AWS and on-premise environments.
• Genuine software-engineering mindset.

Responsibilities

• Build and optimise CI/CD platforms and deployment automation.
• Engineer scalable Kubernetes and container platforms.
• Develop infrastructure and automation using Python/Go and Terraform.
• Improve observability, reliability and fault tolerance across critical services.
• Build and maintain highly available platform services and APIs.
• Work across AWS and on-premise infrastructure.
• Partner with engineering teams on platform adoption, automation and best practice.
• Take part in on-call and production incident response.

Skills

CI/CD expertise

Observability

Distributed systems

REST APIs

Software engineering mindset

On-call readiness

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Octopus Deploy

Kubernetes

Terraform

Python

Go

AWS

On-premise

Job description

Tempest Vane Partners in London is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team. The role focuses on CI/CD, Kubernetes, automation and platform reliability across cloud and on‑prem environments, enabling engineers, researchers and investment teams to build and run software at scale.

You will work hands‑on with software engineers to automate the SDLC, strengthen production reliability and build scalable infrastructure, with on‑call responsibilities and collaboration