Jobs / Xelix
Senior DevOps Engineer
Xelix · London, ENG, United Kingdom
London, ENG, United KingdomExp: 10+ yrs65,000-90,000 GBP/yearlyHybrid
Remuneration
Competitive salary depending on experience
Location
London, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The Senior DevOps Engineer owns the reliability, scalability, and security of production infrastructure supporting financial controls and machine-learning workloads. The role designs and operates AWS services, including ECS and EKS; manages Terraform infrastructure-as-code and GitHub Actions pipelines; tunes PostgreSQL on RDS/Aurora; and builds Python automation. It also strengthens security, monitoring, and incident response while contributing to architecture, technical standards, and on-call operations.
Benefits
27 days of annual leave, including three days for Christmas closingOption to roll over three days of annual leaveDog-friendly officeOn-site gymPrivate medical and dental coverEnhanced parental leave pay1,000 annual learning and development budgetTeam socials and activitiesAnnual team retreat
Qualifications
- At least 10 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering
- Experience owning production systems, ideally business-critical systems
- Strong Python proficiency
- Hands-on AWS experience, including container platforms such as ECS and EKS
- Expert-level Terraform skills
- Database operations experience, ideally PostgreSQL on AWS RDS/Aurora
- CI/CD experience, specifically with GitHub Actions
- Experience embedding security practices, secrets management, and compliance controls into infrastructure and pipelines
- Strong troubleshooting skills across Linux, networking, and distributed infrastructure
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Based in or commutable to London and able to work from the office several days per week
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate AWS infrastructure, including ECS and EKS
- Own and maintain Terraform infrastructure-as-code
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
- Operate and tune PostgreSQL databases on RDS/Aurora, including backups, migrations, partitioning, and scaling
- Support reliable, observable, and cost-effective production machine-learning workloads
- Write Python automation and infrastructure tooling
- Embed security practices, secrets management, and least-privilege access
- Help teams remediate vulnerabilities early
- Improve monitoring, alerting, and incident response
- Mentor engineers and contribute to architecture decisions and technical standards
- Participate in on-call rotation and take ownership of production incidents
Skills
AWSClickHouseECSEKSGitHubGitHub ActionsIAMLinuxPostgreSQLPythonRedshiftTerraform
Languages
Python
Work schedule
On-call rotationOffice attendance several days per week
Industry
Accounts payable automationFinancial controlsMachine learning
Company size
Over 150 employeesScale-up
Relocation
No