Senior DevOps Engineer (Platform & Reliability)

Context Recruitment Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 57,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

20% bonus

Job summary

Context Recruitment Limited is seeking a Senior DevOps Platform Engineer to own and scale our production platform across cloud and on-premise systems in a hybrid London setup.

You will lead a small, expert team, manage Kubernetes clusters (GKE and self-managed), support MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB, and automate with Terraform, Ansible, Packer and Bash. This is not CI/CD; the focus is reliable, scalable platform ownership with strong observability.

Qualifications

• Experience deploying Kubernetes in production (GKE or self-managed).
• Designing highly available, resilient infrastructure.
• Experience with monitoring and observability (Grafana/Prometheus/ELK).
• Infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, Packer, and Bash.

Responsibilities

• Build, manage and scale Kubernetes clusters across cloud and on-prem.
• Support and administer MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
• Manage monitoring, alerting and logging platforms.
• Automate infrastructure with Infrastructure as Code and scripting.
• Maintain high availability and resilience across critical systems.
• Provide technical guidance to internal teams across regions.

Skills

Kubernetes in production

GKE / self-managed clusters

Monitoring and observability

Terraform

Ansible

Packer

Bash scripting

High availability

On-prem & hybrid

Time-zone collaboration

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

ELK Stack

rsyslog

Job description

Hybrid | London

Paying up to £95k + 20% bonus (realistic, can be significantly higher)

*Extremely exciting* enterprise-scale, global entertainment organisation seeking an experienced, Senior DevOps Platform Engineer to support and enhance a modern hybrid infrastructure environment across cloud and on-premise platforms.

You’ll be working with closely with a small, highly dedicated, highly capable team.

Hands-on, senior role focused on Kubernetes, databases, Linux administration, automation, monitoring and platform reliability. You will help keep business-critical systems secure, scalable and available and support engineering teams across a global organisation.

Not CI/CD-only DevOps; this is production platform ownership.

Some workloads run in the cloud, some stay on-prem (for latency and control). Load is uneven and highly bursty.

Failover, capacity and clear runbooks are critical.

The Role:

• Build, manage and scale Kubernetes clusters across cloud and on-premise environments, including GKE and self-managed clusters
• Support and administer MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB (application teams own product schema; you co-own operational)
• Manage monitoring, alerting and logging platforms
• Automate infrastructure with Infrastructure as Code and scripting
• Maintain high availability and resilience across critical systems
• Manage access controls and permissions in cloud platforms
• Troubleshoot, performance-tune and harden platforms
• Develop technical standards, best practices and documentation
• Provide technical support and guidance to internal engineering teams in more than one region

Experience:

Note, we want to speak to people with experience in some or all of the following - you do not need every line.

• Building and managing Kubernetes in production, including GKE and/or self-managed clusters
• Designing and supporting highly available, resilient infrastructure
• Monitoring and observability — Grafana, Prometheus, ELK Stack, rsyslog or equivalent
• Infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, Packer and Bash
• Exposure to medium or large-scale environments
• Ability to work independently manging competing priorities
• Collaboration with teams across locations and time zones

Beneficial:

• On-prem and hybrid Kubernetes
• Hands-on MySQL or PostgreSQL administration
• MongoDB — sharded, on-prem clustering would be particularly useful but is not a must have