Senior TechOps Engineer

Delio; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial technology scale-up in Cardiff is seeking a Senior TechOps Engineer. This role involves managing cloud infrastructure and observability standards using tools like AWS, Terraform, and Kubernetes. The ideal candidate will have deep experience in cloud services and CI/CD pipelines. This position offers a competitive salary, opportunities for growth, and a hybrid working model with a supportive team culture. Responsibilities include optimizing monitoring stacks and ensuring high availability for applications.

Benefits

Competitive salary based on experience

Hybrid working model

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Private medical insurance

Pension scheme

Qualifications

• Deep professional experience with AWS core services (EC2, VPC, EKS, RDS, IAM).
• Strong hands-on experience with Prometheus and Grafana.
• Proficiency with Terraform and Terragrunt for managing environments.
• Extensive experience managing production Kubernetes clusters.
• Proven experience building CI/CD pipelines using GitHub and Octopus Deploy.
• Ability to read and debug code in Golang or PHP.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform.
• Architect and maintain a comprehensive monitoring stack.
• Implement traffic management strategies using AWS Global Accelerator.
• Manage and scale Kubernetes clusters ensuring high availability.
• Optimize build and deploy pipelines for continuous delivery.
• Own implementation of error tracking and performance monitoring.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

GitHub Actions

Golang

PHP

Job description

At Delio we are transforming the private markets. We provide the financial technology and infrastructure that connects the worlds most prestigious financial institutions with the private investment opportunities of tomorrow. Based in Cardiff we are a fast-growing scale-up looking for a Senior TechOps Engineer to take ownership of our cloud infrastructure and observability standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Infrastructure as Code : Design build and maintain our AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Terragrunt . You will drive the standards for state management and modular architecture.
• Advanced Observability : Architect and maintain a comprehensive monitoring stack. You will configure Prometheus for metrics visualise data in Grafana and standardise distributed tracing across our services using OpenTelemetry .
• Global Networking : Implement and manage traffic management strategies using AWS Global Accelerator to ensure low-latency performance for our global client base.
• Orchestration : Manage and scale our Kubernetes (EKS) clusters ensuring high availability and resource optimization.
• CI / CD Automation : Optimise our build and deploy pipelines using GitHub Actions and Octopus Deploy moving us toward continuous delivery.
• Application Health : Own the implementation of Sentry for real-time error tracking and performance monitoring across our Golang PHP and applications.
• Security & Secrets : Own the secrets management lifecycle using HashiCorp Vault ensuring we adhere to the strict security standards required in FinTech.

Qualifications

Essential Requirements

• Cloud Expert : Deep professional experience with AWS core services (EC2 VPC EKS RDS IAM).
• Observability Stack : Strong hands-on experience with Prometheus (PromQL) and Grafana . You understand the difference between logging metrics and tracing.
• IaC Mastery : Strong proficiency with Terraform and specifically Terragrunt for managing complex environments.
• Container Orchestration : Extensive experience managing production Kubernetes clusters (Helm charts ingress controllers auto-scaling).
• CI / CD : Proven experience building pipelines such as GitHub CI and Octopus Deploy .
• Language Familiarity : Ability to read and debug code in at least one of our core languages : Golang PHP or .

Desirable Requirements

• Global Accelerator : Hands-on experience implementing AWS Global Accelerator for multi-region resilience and latency optimization. This is a key differentiator for this role.
• OpenTelemetry : Experience implementing OpenTelemetry collectors and instrumentation libraries to standardise traces.
• FinTech Experience : Understanding of the regulatory and security constraints within financial services (SOC2 ISO27001).

Additional Information

What We Offer

• Competitive salary based on experience.
• Hybrid working based in or around Cardiff . We operate a hybrid working model with a minimum 3 days per week in the office - with Wednesday and Thursday being obligatory office days.
• A friendly supportive and innovative team culture.
• Opportunities for professional growth and training.

By joining Delio you can expect :

• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) increasing with length of service.
• Access to our employee share incentive scheme.
• Extra day off for your birthday.
• Hybrid working policy.
• Private medical insurance and Death-in-service benefit.
• Defined contribution pension scheme.

Remote Work : No

Employment Type : Full-time

Key Skills

• APIs
• C / C++
• Computer Graphics
• Go
• React
• Redux
• Node.js
• AWS
• Library Services
• Assembly
• GraphQL
• High Voltage

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1