Senior/Lead DevOps Engineer
We're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer skilled in AI and Copilot to join our team in London, United Kingdom in a hybrid working mode (3 days onsite).
In this role, you will build and maintain a cloud-based index platform, manage secure and cost-effective AWS environments, and drive observability and resilience through chaos and disaster recovery testing. You will implement FinOps strategies to optimize cloud spending and leverage your expertise in CI/CD practices to design and optimize a best-in-class AWS microservices architecture. This is a hands-on role requiring deep experience in DevOps tools and practices, including GitLab, Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes/EKS and Ansible.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain secure, resilient and cost-optimized AWS cloud infrastructure using DevOps best practices
- Design and manage CI/CD pipelines for Java and Python microservices architectures
- Implement infrastructure as code using Terraform with modular and reusable patterns
- Manage Kubernetes (EKS) clusters at scale for workload orchestration and container lifecycle
- Integrate security controls and continuous compliance into the DevOps lifecycle
- Drive observability using tools like Datadog to monitor infrastructure and application performance
- Implement chaos engineering and disaster recovery strategies to ensure resilience and business continuity
- Optimize cloud cost management in line with FinOps principles
Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch and EKS
- Expertise in infrastructure as code using Terraform
- Proven experience with CI/CD tools such as GitLab CI or Jenkins for microservices architectures
- Strong knowledge of Kubernetes (EKS) and containerization with Docker
- Solid understanding of cloud security practices and compliance frameworks
- Experience with observability platforms such as Datadog or Prometheus
- Familiarity with cloud financial management and FinOps principles
- Track record of designing and executing disaster recovery strategies
Nice to have
- Experience with AI-assisted tools such as GitHub Copilot, GitLab AI or Terraform AI
- Knowledge of scripting languages (Python, Bash or similar) for automation
- Familiarity with Ansible for configuration management
- Exposure to emerging DevOps trends and cloud-native technologies
