Staff DevOps Engineer

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Drive adoption of team deliverables: Getting something built is half the job — making sure engineering teams actually use it is the other half.
• - Gather and translate stakeholder requirements: Work closely with engineers, team leads, and service owners across the organisation before the team builds.
• - Lead the team’s delivery: Own the backlog. Prioritise across competing demands — KTLO, incident response, internal initiatives, and cross-service projects.
• - Manage capacity deliberately: Find the right balance between reactive and proactive work.
• - Set technical direction: Make architectural decisions on infrastructure and security, and hold the team to a high standard in execution.
• - Enable other engineers: Design tools, patterns, and guardrails that let product engineering teams own their infrastructure — easily and securely.
• - Collaborate across Platform Service: Work closely with the Platform Service Lead and the Team Leads for DevEx and QA to manage shared dependencies.
• - Contribute hands-on: Write and review infrastructure code.
• - Drive incident response and reliability: Own the approach to incident management, MTTR reduction, and operational health across our distributed environment.

Required Skills

• - A track record of driving adoption of internal tooling or platform work.
• - Proven experience as a Staff or Senior DevOps / Platform / Infrastructure Engineer in a high-growth environment.
• - Deep expertise in managing distributed, microservice, event-driven architectures.
• - Strong AWS experience.
• - Experience with serverless infrastructure — Lambda, API Gateway, and equivalents.
• - Scripting skills are a must. Comfort in at least one language: Python, Node.js, Bash, or similar.
• - A track record of managing delivery processes — backlog design, capacity planning, dependency management.
• - Strong communication and stakeholder skills.

Benefits

• - Competitive salary - our current band for this role is £101,000 or equivalent in local currency.
• - Stock Options - everyone on the team has ownership in our mission.
• - 25 days holiday + public holidays - Swap public holidays for ones that matter most to you.
• - Remote & flexible working - We’re fully remote with clear core hours.
• - Home working & wellbeing budgets: Up to £1,200 / €1,200 annually to upgrade your remote setup.
• - Up to £150 / €150 monthly on anything that supports your wellbeing.