Senior DevOps Engineer

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Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: Holborn, Central London (Hybrid)
Reporting to: Head of AI and Technology
Job Type: Full-timeAn exciting new permanent opportunity has become available for a Senior DevOps Engineer, to join a juggernaut organisation in the recruitment industry. A highly dynamic, ambitious and fast-business dedicated to transforming the recruitment landscape through AI-driven, human-centered technology.

They're seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer who is passionate about building and maintaining robust cloud infrastructure and thrives in a dynamic startup environment. This role offers the opportunity to take ownership of the business cloud operations and drive the development of a world-class platform.

Day-to-day of the role:

Own and manage the cloud infrastructure, ensuring scalability, resilience, and security.
Implement and maintain high-availability architectures across critical services and data layers.
Design and optimise infrastructure to support AI-powered workloads and data pipelines.
Lead cost optimisation initiatives across the platform.
Manage the end-to-end deployment pipeline to ensure fast, reliable, and low-friction releases.
Maintain, optimise, and automate CI/CD processes.
Ensure zero-downtime deployment strategies and effective rollback procedures.
Build and maintain a stable, efficient development environment for the engineering team.
Provide tooling and automation to reduce friction and accelerate development velocity.
Monitor system reliability, performance, and security across environments.
Implement robust observability tools including logs, metrics, traces, and alerts.
Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and long-term remediation.
Ensure security best practices are embedded across infrastructure and pipelines.
Collaborate closely with the wider team to align infrastructure strategy with product and business goals.Required Skills & Qualifications:

8+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
Strong hands-on experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines and Linux systems administration.
Deep understanding of high-availability architecture, networking, load balancing, and distributed systems.
Proven experience supporting production SaaS environments.
Strong understanding of monitoring and observability tooling.
Excellent scripting skills in Python, Bash, or similar.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.Nice to Have but not essential:

Experience with event-driven architectures and NextJS/NodeJS build environments.
Experience supporting data pipelines or AI/ML workloads.
Background in startup environments and exposure to security frameworks or compliance processes.Benefits:

Hybrid working model (minimum 3 days a week in office).
25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
Flexible holiday scheme and paid time off to move home.
Contributory pension scheme and enhanced family leave benefits.
Insurance benefits including life assurance.
Wellbeing and mental health support.To apply for the Senior DevOps Engineer position, please submit your CV to be considered immediately
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Location:
City Of London
Salary:
£70,000 - £80,000 /annum
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
IT

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