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Senior DevOps Engineer
Focal Point Positioning · Cambridge, ENG, United Kingdom
Cambridge, ENG, United KingdomFull time70,000-80,000 GBP/yearlyHybrid
Remuneration
70,000-80,000 GBP/yearly
Location
Cambridge, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
Seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join the Internal Infrastructure & Tooling team. This role involves designing, building, and maintaining platforms and tooling that support engineering productivity, with a focus on cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and Linux-based systems. The successful candidate will also contribute to incident response, mentor other engineers, and embed security best practices.
Benefits
8% employer-contribution pension scheme25 days annual leave plus bank holidaysAdditional annual leave after 3 yearsEnhanced special leaveExtra annual leave at the end of DecemberCompany Options SchemeUp to £5000 Recommend a friend schemeCycle to work schemePrivate Healthcare - Vitality Health (after successful completion of probation)In-hub (office) lunchesPaid professional membershipsFree parking onsite
Qualifications
- Strong knowledge of Linux administration, networking, and troubleshooting in production environments.
- Several years of experience in a DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering role.
- Solid understanding of infrastructure-as-code principles and modern deployment practices.
- Experience writing and managing Terraform modules and state at scale.
- Comfortable scripting and building tooling in Python.
- Experience designing and maintaining pipelines in GitLab CI/CD.
- Familiarity with infrastructure security practices such as secrets management and vulnerability scanning.
- Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker).
- Familiarity with observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS and on-premises hardware, ensuring reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
- Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines, enabling engineering teams to develop products with confidence.
- Manage and harden Linux-based systems across the internal estate.
- Develop internal tooling and automation to improve developer experience and operational efficiency.
- Collaborate with security stakeholders to embed best practices into infrastructure and deployment workflows.
- Contribute to incident response and post-incident reviews.
- Mentor other engineers and lead by example for infrastructure standards across the organization.
Skills
AWSDockerGitLabGitLab CIGrafanaLinuxPrometheusPythonTerraform
Work schedule
40 hours per week
Relocation
No