DevOps Engineer

Job Title: DevOps Engineer / Infrastructure Specialist

Tech stack: GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Chef, Terraform

Location: Remote first with quarterly trips to London

The Opportunity:

We're working with a growing SaaS business looking to hire an Infrastructure Specialist to join its Software Engineering team.

This is a hands-on role where you'll play a key part in maintaining the security, availability and resilience of core systems. With a strong focus on GCP, you'll take ownership of designing, deploying and maintaining cloud infrastructure, while ensuring systems meet security best practices and compliance standards.

This opportunity would suit an experienced Infrastructure, Systems or DevOps Engineer who has solid commercial experience and is ready to take greater ownership of infrastructure operations, security and automation.

You'll work closely with the Site Reliability Engineering and Compliance teams, helping to improve system performance, strengthen security and support the ongoing development of infrastructure and internal tooling.

Key Responsibilities:

• Cloud Infrastructure: Design, deploy and manage secure infrastructure, with a particular focus on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Systems Administration: Maintain and support Linux environments, alongside MySQL databases, Apache web servers and PHP applications.
• Infrastructure as Code: Deploy and manage infrastructure using Terraform and configuration management tools such as Chef, ensuring configurations follow security best practices.
• Security & Vulnerability Management: Monitor systems for potential threats, carry out vulnerability assessments, apply patches and support security remediation.
• Compliance & Governance: Work alongside compliance teams to maintain SOC 2 alignment, support audits and ensure security documentation and procedures remain up to date.
• SRE Collaboration: Partner with the Site Reliability Engineering team to embed security practices, resilience and disaster recovery planning into infrastructure operations.
• CI/CD & Automation: Support the development and rollout of CI/CD pipelines, automated workflows and internal tooling to improve operational efficiency and system supportability.

What We're Looking For:

• Commercial experience in an Infrastructure, Systems Administration or DevOps Engineering role.
• Strong hands-on experience managing and maintaining Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environments.
• Solid Linux administration skills.
• Experience deploying and managing infrastructure using Terraform.
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Chef.
• Practical experience administering and optimising MySQL databases, Apache web servers and PHP/php-fpm environments.
• Working knowledge of system monitoring tools and CI workflows.
• Familiarity with security frameworks and compliance standards, ideally SOC 2.

Important Notice:

We are expecting a high volume of applications for this role and while we do our best to respond to as many applicants as we can, it isn't always possible to get back to everyone. With this in mind, if you've not heard from a member of our team within 2 weeks of submitting your CV, please assume that your application has not been successful on this occasion.

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