DevOps engineer

Li
3 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Shift work
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
£ 130K

Job location

Remote

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Computer Programming
Continuous Integration
DevOps
Github
Python
MongoDB
Redis
Blockchain
Prometheus
Scripting (Bash/Python/Go/Ruby)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
System Availability
Grafana
GIT
Containerization
Kubernetes
Hashicorp
Cloudflare
Terraform
Docker

Job description

We are looking for a senior DevOps engineer with extensive experience in platform engineering who will help to bring our infrastructure to the next level. You will be part of a highly experienced DevOps team, reporting to the DevOps Lead, responsible for all infrastructure, CI/CD, DevEx, automation, resilience, high availability and o11y. You will work closely with our development teams to build critical features, design new solutions and support the route to live of multiple applications. P.S: This role requires you to be located in EMEA. Your application will not be considered otherwise., * Design and implement new infrastructure, tooling and features, to industry best practices

  • Propose new solutions and improvements to existing technology, process and codebase, with associated costs and benefits
  • Develop our o11y to match industry best standards
  • Implement new processes and workflows for alerting
  • Gather requirements from developers and distill them into actions
  • Guide developers to use DevOps and SRE best practices and support them with their route to live
  • Develop and maintain a superb DevEx for our application teams
  • Optimise our in-house tooling and automation
  • Anticipate issues in our lower environment and take proactive steps to prevent production incidents
  • Deliver new features for developers
  • …and much more

Our tech stack includes:

  • Github for git and Github Actions for CI/CD
  • MongoDB Atlas and Elasticache/Redis for our data
  • CloudFlare for everything CDN related
  • AWS for the majority of our infra, with a subset on GCP
  • Terraform wrapped by Terrgrunt for infrastructure as code
  • EKS for the majority of our compute, with a subset on GKE
  • ArgoCD for our application deployments
  • kube-prometheus-stack for monitoring
  • Hashicorp Vault for secrets management, + Embrace your own differences
  • Respect and welcome the unique qualities of others
  • See others' differences as an opportunity to grow
  • Own it, do it
  • Own tasks end-to-end
  • Hold yourself to a high bar for execution
  • Make bold decisions, and be accountable
  • Understand your limitations and seek for help
  • Fail forward
  • Try - don't be afraid to fail
  • Learn - don't make the same mistake twice
  • Adapt - grow with the experience
  • Have fun together
  • Take the time to get to know and understand each other better
  • Don't take yourself too seriously and keep it light-hearted
  • Fun should be coming from a place of love and respect, * Annual team offsites (Thailand in 2023 and Vietnam in 2024 were a blast, Marrakech in March 2025 was blast-ier; let's see what happens in 2026!)
  • 30 days of PTO
  • Flexible remote days
  • Flexible working hours
  • Equity participation from day 1
  • Entitlement to work computer (choice of equipment)
  • An annual 1,000€ personal development budget once you have worked 6+ months (pro-rated the first year)
  • A one-time 1,000€ remote budget to use on coworking, office setup, etc.

If you join us as an independent contractor, you're only entitled to the first five benefits of this list.

Requirements

  • Expert knowledge and production experience with kubernetes
  • Extensive experience with terraform/opentofu and ideally terragrunt across large codebases, with multiple providers
  • Good linux fundamentals
  • Strong bash scripting skills
  • Solid scripting or programming in at least one language (Python, Go etc)
  • Use and administration of ideally ArgoCD or other GitOps tools, at scale
  • Highly proficient with AWS. Extensive experience with GCP is nice to have
  • Good understanding of containerisation i.e. Docker, containerd
  • Monitoring and Observability as second nature. Ideally experience with Prometheus, Grafana and OTEL
  • Security first mindset
  • Experience with FinOps
  • Proven track record of designing and managing complex CI/CD pipelines
  • Strong communication, collaboration, problem-solving and analytical skills
  • Proactivity, strong ability to work well within a team and across teams
  • Technical independence and proven record of delivering complex initiatives
  • Interest in the blockchain space, a solid and deeper (technical) understanding is a plus
  • Any relevant certifications a nice to have e.g. from AWS/Google or CKA etc
  • Able to overlap the team core work hours (EMEA timezones)

About the company

LI.FI is simplifying multi-chain DeFi for traditional financial institutions, fintechs and service providers by offering a unified API to access all on-chain liquidity across major blockchains for best price same-chain and cross-chain swaps. We are a passionate team on a mission to enable a fairer, more decentralised world. Apart from the tech, we care a lot about user experience and aim to make complex technologies accessible to everyone.

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