Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer Remote First | Occasional Meet-Ups in Bristol or London | Up to £100,000 Are you a DevOps Engineer who is already embracing AI as part of your daily workflow? We're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to help shape and scale a modern, API-first platform operating within a highly regulated environment. This is an opportunity to have genuine influence over cloud architecture, engineering standards, automation strategy and platform reliability, whilst working on critical financial technology infrastructure. What makes this role different is the organisation's commitment to AI-assisted engineering. AI isn't an experiment here; it's embedded into the way teams build, automate, troubleshoot and deliver software. We're looking for someone excited by that future and keen to push the boundaries of what's possible. The Opportunity You'll play a key role in evolving a cloud-native platform, helping to build secure, scalable and highly resilient infrastructure while driving automation across the engineering function. Working closely with software engineers and technical leadership, you'll champion DevOps best practices and help create an environment where development teams can move faster, safer and more efficiently. You'll be responsible for: Owning and evolving cloud infrastructure across production and non-production environmentsDesigning and implementing Infrastructure as Code standardsBuilding and optimising CI/CD pipelinesImproving platform reliability, observability and operational excellenceDriving automation and DevOps best practices across engineering teamsLeading incident response, root cause analysis and continuous improvement initiativesImplementing monitoring, logging and alerting solutionsEnsuring cloud infrastructure meets security, governance and compliance requirementsSupporting high-availability, disaster recovery and business continuity initiativesIntegrating AI tooling into engineering workflows as a natural part of day-to-day deliveryMentoring and supporting engineers on cloud and platform engineering best practices Technology Environment You'll likely have experience with a number of the following: AWS, Azure or GCP (AWS preferable but not essential)Kubernetes and containerised environmentsTerraformGitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI or JenkinsLinuxMySQL, MariaDB or PostgreSQLPython, Bash or PowerShellPrometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch or similar toolingMicroservices and distributed systemsAPI-driven platformsSecurity and IAM best practices What We're Looking For Significant experience within Senior DevOps, Platform Engineering or Site Reliability Engineering rolesDeep public cloud expertiseStrong Kubernetes and containerisation experienceProven Infrastructure as Code experience, ideally TerraformExperience building and maintaining enterprise-scale CI/CD pipelinesStrong understanding of networking, security and modern cloud architectureA track record of improving scalability, resilience and operational performanceDemonstrable enthusiasm for AI-assisted engineering, using tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code or similar as part of your day-to-day workflowStrong collaboration skills and the ability to work closely with software engineering teams Nice to Haves FinTech, payments, banking or regulated industry experiencePCI-DSS, SOC2 or similar compliance exposureExperience supporting high-volume transaction systemsKnowledge of payment platforms or financial services technologyEvent-driven architecture experienceAPI platform experience Why Apply? ✅ Remote-first working with occasional meet-ups in Bristol or London ✅ Salary up to £100,000 ✅ Work on large-scale, business-critical platforms ✅ High levels of ownership and autonomy ✅ Influence cloud strategy and engineering standards ✅ Join a business that has fully embraced AI-assisted engineering ✅ Modern technology stack and forward-thinking engineering culture If you're a senior DevOps professional who sees AI as a force multiplier rather than a future consideration, this is an opportunity to join a team where innovation, automation and platform excellence sit at the heart of everything they do.