SRE/DevOps Engineer

Bumper; Sheffield, Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Healthcare

Pension scheme

26 days holiday

Bonus scheme

Wellbeing allowance

Development allowance

Bumper Flex

Job summary

Bumper is hiring a SRE/DevOps Engineer to join our Infrastructure team, based in Sheffield or London (Hammersmith). You will shape reliability, scalability and observability across our cloud‑native platform, collaborating with engineers to build a high‑performance, monitorable system.

You’ll lead incident response, implement SLIs/SLOs and drive automation to reduce toil, with a strong focus on modern CI/CD using Argo and GitHub Actions. Hybrid work, UK offices, 3 days on site.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles.
• Hands-on experience running Kubernetes in production.
• Experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms.
• Solid experience with Terraform and IaC automation.
• Experience participating in or managing production incidents and on-call.
• Strong grasp of monitoring, alerting, and observability principles.
• Ability to diagnose and fix complex distributed systems issues.
• Demonstrated use of GenAI tools in engineering workflows.
• Excellent communication and calmness under pressure.
• Passion for automation and reducing toil.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure.
• Manage and enhance Kubernetes (EKS) platform for reliable applications.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Helm.
• Improve and support CI/CD pipelines using Argo Workflows, ArgoCD and GitHub Actions.
• Lead and participate in incident response, including on‑call activities.
• Drive monitoring, alerting and observability across metrics, logs, and traces.
• Conduct blameless post‑incident reviews and follow‑ups.
• Define and implement SLIs/SLOs to improve reliability.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to embed best practices and developer experience.
• Automate and improve tooling to reduce toil and increase resilience.

Skills

DevOps

SRE

Platform Engineering

Kubernetes

AWS/Azure

Terraform

Incident management

Observability

Automation

GenAI tools

Tools

Kubernetes (EKS)

Terraform

Helm

Argo Workflows

ArgoCD

GitHub Actions

Grafana Cloud

IRM

Job description

A Bit About Us

Please allow us to celebrate our own success for a moment… We’ve built a customer‑centric product that is market‑leading, and we are smashing it!

We’re a multi‑award‑winning digital payments and insights platform within the automotive industry. We support over 5,000 automotive retailers, helping drivers spread the cost of motoring bills, accessories and servicing through flexible payment options. Our purpose is simple: to give drivers peace of mind while improving the customer experience and supporting dealer profitability.

Following our successful Series B in 2024, Bumper continues to scale across the UK and Europe — and we’re excited to welcome a passionate and experienced SRE/DevOps Engineer, based in either our Sheffield or London office, to help us take our platform reliability and engineering excellence to the next level.

Our Head Office is in Sheffield City Centre, with offices also based in London and Turkey. We've also expanded further, bringing retailers in Ireland, Germany, Spain, and the Netherlands on board, with the vision of being the leading automotive payment and insights platform!

A Bit About The Role

We’re looking for an SRE/DevOps Engineer to join our growing Infrastructure team. In this role, you’ll help shape and strengthen the reliability, scalability and observability of our cloud‑native platform. You’ll work across the business to improve how we build, deploy and monitor our systems, while playing a key role in incident response and continuous improvement.

You’ll report directly to our Head of DevOps & Infrastructure and will collaborate closely with engineers across Bumper to build a high‑performance, well‑monitored, developer‑friendly platform — and you’ll be a key voice in building a strong SRE and DevOps culture across the team.

This is a full‑time role hybrid‑role, based in one of our UK offices (Sheffield or London – Hammersmith). Our ideal candidate would be able to work at least 3 days a week from one of these locations.

Day‑to‑day Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure
• Manage and enhance our Kubernetes (EKS) platform to support reliable, modern applications
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Helm
• Improve and support CI/CD pipelines using Argo Workflows, ArgoCD and GitHub Actions
• Lead and participate in incident response, including on‑call activities and major incident coordination
• Drive high‑quality monitoring, alerting and observability across metrics, logs and traces
• Conduct and support blameless post‑incident reviews, ensuring follow‑up actions are delivered
• Define and implement SLIs/SLOs to improve service reliability and operational excellence
• Collaborate with engineering teams to embed best practices and improve developer experience
• Contribute to automation, tooling, and continuous improvements that reduce toil and increase platform resilience

What We Are Looking For In You

• Proven experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles
• Strong hands‑on experience running Kubernetes in production
• Experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms
• Solid experience with Terraform and IaC automation
• Experience participating in or managing production incidents and on‑call
• Strong grasp of monitoring, alerting, and observability principles
• Ability to diagnose and fix complex distributed systems issues
• Demonstrated use of GenAI tools (ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Claude) in engineering workflows
• Excellent communication and calmness under pressure
• A passion for automation and reducing toil

Nice to haves

• Experience with Grafana Cloud, IRM or other incident management tools
• Familiarity with Argo Workflows / ArgoCD
• Experience defining SLIs/SLOs at scale
• Background in Platform Engineering
• Experience improving or redesigning incident management processes

We’re an international team, English is our shared working language. You’ll collaborate frequently with colleagues in the UK, so confidence communicating in English is important for this role.

What You’ll Get From Us

• Competitive Salary
• Company bonus scheme
• Private Healthcare and Medicash plan
• We give 26 days holiday + bank holidays, plus volunteer days throughout the year (pro‑rated)
• Tax‑saving Salary Sacrifice Pension with Aviva
• Salary sacrifice Cycle to Work, Octopus Electric Vehicle, and Nursery fee schemes available!
• For all your well‑being and development needs, we give each colleague access to a benefits platform, with an allowance of £250 per year for wellbeing, and £150 per year for development
• Our Bumper Flex policy for better work/life balance
• Annual company‑wide Bumper Retreat – a few days of fun, collaboration, and mingling (make sure your passport's in date!)
• If and when the time comes, we will give 4 months paid leave to primary carers, and 1 month of paid leave to secondary carers

Perks are nice, but we know perks don’t make up the whole package of a great job. By joining our Bumper team, you'll have the opportunity to be an ambassador for our product & brand, and help us to continue on our winning streak!

Important

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. We can only consider candidates who already have the right to work in the UK.