Senior Platform/ DevOps Engineer (m/f/d)

Stott and May; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative software company in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Platform / DevOps Engineer to join their Platform team. You will be responsible for designing, building, and operating their AWS- and Kubernetes-based platform. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of DevOps experience, strong skills in AWS and Kubernetes, and a passion for building scalable infrastructure. The company offers a modern work environment with flexible hours and extensive benefits.

Benefits

Modern hardware and cutting-edge technologies

100% remote work possibility

Space and budget for personal growth

Flexible working hours

30 days vacation

Free coffee, tea, and water

JobRad-Leasing

Employee events

Knowledge improvement community sessions

Qualifications

• 10+ years in infrastructure, platform, or DevOps roles.
• Strong AWS production experience with best practices.
• Strong Kubernetes production experience managing clusters.

Responsibilities

• Design, operate, and improve AWS + Kubernetes platform.
• Run production AWS environments and Kubernetes clusters.
• Build and maintain GitOps workflows with Argo CD.

Skills

AWS production experience

Kubernetes production experience

Infrastructure as Code expertise

GitOps experience

Observability tools experience

Solid networking fundamentals

Tools

Terraform

GitOps tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Argo CD

Job description

Stott and May are excited to be working with an innovative software business that is disrupting the Smart Homes Space. They help customers by making buildings more climate-friendly, more comfortable, and more affordable using Smart connected devices (IoT), simple products and high processing and service quality.

Due to continued growth, we’re hiring a Senior Platform / DevOps Engineer to join the Platform team. You’ll help design, build, and operate Thei AWS- and Kubernetes-based platform, supporting product teams through reliable, scalable infrastructure.

What you’ll do

• Design, operate, and improve our AWS + Kubernetes platform (including hybrid/on-prem integrations)
• Own key areas such as Kubernetes, observability, networking, or infrastructure as code
• Run production AWS environments and Kubernetes clusters (upgrades, security, reliability)
• Build and maintain GitOps workflows with Argo CD and contribute to CI/CD patterns
• Operate and evolve our observability stack (Prometheus, Thanos, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry)
• Define meaningful SLOs, dashboards, and alerting
• Work on Kubernetes networking, ingress, traffic routing, and Envoy-based components
• Build and maintain Terraform modules; migrate existing infrastructure to IaC
• Collaborate with the Platform team on design, incidents, and on-call
• Support product teams with clear platform interfaces and documentation

Experience

• 10+ years in infrastructure, platform, or DevOps roles

Strong AWS production experience, including:

• Multi-account environments, networking (VPC, subnets, routing, LB), IAM and security best practices
• Landing Zones and large-scale AWS setups

Strong Kubernetes production experience:

• Operating clusters (EKS or similar), workloads, autoscaling, upgrades, and lifecycle management

Observability experience with tools such as:

• Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana
• Loki, Tempo or similar logging/tracing systems
• OpenTelemetry for metrics, logs, and traces

Solid networking fundamentals:

• TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTP, routing, VPNs, firewalls, load balancing
• Envoy (or Envoy-based systems), Ingress controllers, API gateways, SD-VPNs

Infrastructure as Code expertise:

• Terraform and Terragrunt at team or org scale (modules, state, remote backends)

GitOps experience:

• Argo CD, app-of-apps patterns, environment promotion, RBAC/ABAC

Nice to have

• Crossplane in production
• Experience in Platform / Enablement teams
• Argo Workflows or similar orchestration tools
• AWS Control Tower / Account Factory
• German language skills (B2)

What’s on offer

A modern environment with flat hierarchies. Colleagues often highlight our great spirit in achieving their goals. The company is a place to be yourself, aim high, take care of each other and grow without limits. Additionally, they offer the following benefits:

• Modern hardware and the opportunity to work with cutting‑edge technologies
• Besides our 100% remote work possibility
• Space and budget for personal growth
• Flexible working hours
• 30 days vacation
• Coffee, tea and water are free in our office
• JobRad-Leasing
• Events for employees to celebrate our achieved goals and great team-spirit
• Community of Practice and Knowledge Nuggets for improving your skills