DevOps / Platform Engineer

DevOps / Platform Engineer A fantastic opportunity for a DevOps / Platform Engineer to join a rapidly growing technology company building sophisticated cloud software and smart workplace solutions. Following continued commercial success, the company is significantly expanding its international engineering function, including its Cambridge R&D team. You will join a small, highly skilled DevOps team responsible for building, scaling and operating the cloud infrastructure, deployment tooling and automation behind its technology platform. This is an excellent opportunity for an academically strong engineer with commercial DevOps or Platform Engineering experience who wants to work within a technically challenging environment. Location: Cambridge, minimum 3 days per week in the office Salary: £50,000 to £85,000 per annum DOE + great benefits + incident response/on-call allowance + equity options Requirements for DevOps / Platform Engineer: At least 1 year of commercial experience within DevOps Engineering, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering or a closely related roleCommercial experience with Kubernetes, Terraform and Docker. You do not need to be an expert in all three, but should have good knowledge of eachThis company values a strong academic background - 2.1 or 1st Class Degree in Computer Science or similar from a leading University with at least ABB at A Level (or international equivalent)Experience with a major cloud platform such as Azure, AWS or GCPGood understanding of cloud infrastructure, deployment and networkingKnowledge of Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure automationExperience with CI/CD and automated delivery pipelinesUnderstanding of software engineering and systems design principlesStrong problem-solving skills and a genuine enthusiasm for technologyAbility to quickly pick up new technologies and work across a varied technical environmentExcellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate with both software and infrastructure-focused engineers Responsibilities for DevOps / Platform Engineer: Design, build and operate scalable cloud infrastructure and developer toolingWork with technologies including Kubernetes, Terraform and DockerBuild and maintain containerised environments and cloud deployment infrastructureDevelop and improve Infrastructure as Code and automationBuild, maintain and enhance CI/CD pipelines and developer toolingWork across cloud networking, databases, data storage and associated infrastructureDevelop and improve monitoring, metrics and observability across the platformHelp ensure systems are designed for performance, scalability, resilience and high availabilityCollaborate closely with software engineers to improve development, testing and deployment processesResearch, evaluate and test new technologies that could enhance the platform or engineering environmentContribute to technical design discussions across areas including systems architecture and networkingOver time, participate in the incident response rota, investigating, mitigating and resolving technical issues when required What the role offers: Join a growing Cambridge R&D team within a technology company undergoing significant international expansionExcellent exposure to Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, Azure and a broad range ofWork alongside experienced senior engineers while taking increasing ownership of technically challenging projects Applications: If you would like to apply for this unique DevOps / Platform Engineering role, then please send your CV via the relevant links! We’re committed to creating an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require reasonable adjustments for your application or during the review process, please highlight this by separately emailing applications@redtech-recruit.com (if this email address has been removed by the job board, full contact details are readily available on our website). Keywords: DevOps Engineer / Platform Engineer / Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer / SRE / Kubernetes Engineer / Cloud Platform Engineer / DevOps Specialist / Infrastructure Developer / Systems Engineer / Cloud Infrastructure Engineer / Kubernetes / Terraform / Docker / Azure / AWS / GCP / Helm / Infrastructure as Code / IaC / CI/CD / Cloud Networking / Containers / Observability / Monitoring / Automation / Prometheus / Grafana / GitHub Actions / Computer Science / Software Engineering / Mathematics / Engineering / Physics RedTech Recruitment Ltd focus on finding roles for Engineers and Scientists. Even if the above role isn’t of interest, please visit our website to see our other opportunities. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at RedTech. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.