Software Developer - Internal tools/DevOps

Roc Search; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Pension (Salary sacrifice)

Holidays (28 days + Bank holidays)

Equity options

Work from abroad

Bi-annual reviews

Job summary

Roc Search Inc. in London is seeking a hands-on Software/Platform Engineer to join its internal tools and platform team.

You will develop Python-based software, build scalable infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, and automate tooling to empower engineering teams to test, deploy and operate software efficiently. Responsibilities include owning platform components end-to-end, improving developer productivity, and ensuring reliable, secure cloud workloads in AWS/Azure.

Qualifications

• Experience Python development and clean, maintainable code.
• Hands-on CI/CD with GitHub Actions.
• Production experience with AWS and/or Azure.
• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or similar.
• Docker and container deployment experience.
• Linux and Bash scripting.
• Experience building internal tooling and automation.
• Experience with AI coding assistants.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and release processes.
• Build infrastructure modules, service templates and deployment tooling.
• Develop internal automation and AI-powered tooling.
• Maintain and optimise cloud infrastructure for reliability, security, cost.
• Own platform components from design to production.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve developer productivity.

Skills

Python development

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud infrastructure

Automation tooling

Linux & Bash

Code quality

AI tooling awareness

Tools

AWS

Azure

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Docker / ECS / Fargate

Azure Container Apps

CloudWatch/Monitoring

Job description

Software/Platform Engineer - Internal Tools (Python / DevOps)

AI Scale up | London (2 days p/w in office)

Salary: £50-£80k DOE + Bonus

The Opportunity

We're working with an ambitious, growing AI business who are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to join its internal tools and platform engineering team.

You'll help build and improve the systems, infrastructure and developer tooling that enable engineering teams to build, test, deploy and operate software efficiently.

This is a hands-on engineering role combining Software development (ideally with Python), cloud infrastructure, CI/CD and automation.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain shared CI/CD pipelines and release processes.
• Build reusable infrastructure modules, service templates and deployment tooling.
• Develop internal automation and AI-powered engineering tools.
• Maintain and optimise cloud infrastructure, focusing on reliability, security and cost.
• Take ownership of platform components from design through to production.
• Work with engineering teams to improve developer productivity and remove technical bottlenecks.

Technical Requirements

• Strong Python (Or similar) development skills and experience writing clean, maintainable code.
• Hands-on CI/CD experience, ideally with GitHub Actions.
• Production experience with AWS and/or Azure.
• Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform or similar.
• Docker and container deployment experience (ECS/Fargate, Azure Container Apps or similar).
• Linux and Bash scripting.
• Experience building internal tooling, automation or shared developer infrastructure.
• Regular use of AI coding assistants, with an understanding of their capabilities and limitations.

Desirable

• Experience developing agentic AI or LLM-powered engineering workflows.
• AWS multi-account environments, IAM and OIDC.
• .NET and TypeScript build and release pipelines.
• Security, secrets management and SOC 2.
• Observability tools such as CloudWatch, Elastic or Azure Monitor.

The Ideal Candidate

You'll be a hands-on Software Engineer with a strong interest in platform engineering and developer productivity. You enjoy solving problems for other engineers, taking ownership of technical challenges and building reliable, scalable tooling.

Benefits include Bonus, Salary sacrifice pension, 28 days' holiday + Bank holidays, Equity options, working from abroad, Bi annual reviews.

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