Senior DevOps Engineer: Platform & CI/CD Orchestrator

Selby Jennings; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Selby Jennings represents a technology-driven investment firm seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer who thrives on automation, scalability, and solving complex platform challenges.

You will build and own scalable CI/CD platforms, enhance developer productivity, and drive observability and reliability across cloud and on-prem environments, partnering with engineering, data, and business teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering within distributed environments.
• Strong software engineering with Python and/or Go.
• Deep expertise with CI/CD technologies (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Octopus Deploy).
• Experience supporting high-traffic platforms and scalable infrastructure.
• Kubernetes expertise and containerised environments.
• Terraform and Kubernetes Operators for IaC.
• Observability with monitoring, logging, metrics and alerting.
• Experience with AWS and on-premises infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and automate scalable CI/CD platforms for millions of builds per year.
• Develop platform capabilities to boost developer productivity and delivery speed.
• Champion DevOps and SRE best practices across IaC, observability, and platform operations.
• Build resilient pipelines enabling self-service software delivery and lower overhead.
• Manage large-scale Kubernetes environments and ensure reliability.
• Collaborate with engineering, data, and infra teams to improve platform reliability.

Skills

Python

Go

DevOps mindset

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Octopus Deploy

Terraform

Kubernetes

Kubernetes Operators

AWS

Job description

Selby Jennings represents a technology-driven investment firm seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer who thrives on automation, scalability, and solving complex platform challenges.

You will build and own scalable CI/CD platforms, enhance developer productivity, and drive observability and reliability across cloud and on-prem environments, partnering with engineering, data, and business teams.