Senior Software Engineer, Dedrone Infrastructure

Location: Onsite at our London, UK office 4 days a week Reports to: Engineering Manager, Infrastructure Services Direct Reports: none

• Own, design, and optimize CI/CD pipelines supporting Dedrone's distributed, product ecosystem-reducing build times, deployment friction, and manual overhead.
• Build, automate, and maintain AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or AWS CDK), ensuring scalable, secure, and reusable cloud environments.
• Maintain and evolve backend services owned by the team
• Architect, optimize, and secure Docker images and container workflows; support orchestration environments (such as ECS, EKS, Kubernetes).
• Strengthen and expand Dedrone's observability stack- metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting-leveraging tools such as Grafana, Cloudwatch
• Establish and promote engineering best practices across development standards, CI/CD patterns, infrastructure templates, and reusable tooling.
• Partner closely with product engineering teams to understand bottlenecks, reduce toil, and increase overall developer velocity.
• Contribute to security-focused improvements across the platform CI/CD, IAM, secrets management, and cloud resource hardening.
• Collaborate with Axon platform, infrastructure, and security teams to align workflows and adopt shared best practices.
• Deliver measurable improvements to system reliability, automation, and infrastructure scalability., The above job description is not intended as, nor should it be construed as, exhaustive of all duties, responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with this job. The job description may change or be supplemented at any time in accordance with business needs and conditions.

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• 3+ years of relevant experience in cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, backend engineering, or platform/DevOps roles, with an emphasis on practical, hands-on expertise over formal education.
• Proficiency with modern cloud and automation tooling, including CI/CD pipeline development, AWS services (EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch), Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or AWS CDK), and containerization using Docker and orchestration tools such as ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes.
• Strong engineering fundamentals, including backend development experience (e.g., Java, Go, Python), as well as Linux, Bash, and scripting skills used for automation, debugging, and improving developer workflows.
• Experience implementing observability practices-including metrics, logging, and tracing-and using insights to diagnose issues, improve reliability, and elevate developer experience across systems.
• A collaborative approach grounded in Axon's values-showing ownership, candor, customer success, the courage to boldly go, and the ambition to aim far and win right-supported by a track record of reducing toil, resolving bottlenecks, and strengthening the overall engineering ecosystem.

• Competitive base salary and RSUs
• Comprehensive pension plan with matching contribution
• Private health insurance & cash plans
• 30 days paid holiday + UK public holidays
• Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
• GymPass subscription
• Life assurance & income protection
• Career growth support and wellness resources

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