DevOps Engineer

This role is ideal for a senior engineer with deep Back End expertise and strong platform-engineering instincts. You'll work in a complex, multi-team environment where the focus is on building scalable, reusable infrastructure components, integrating multiple Back End systems, and delivering a robust Back End-for-Front End (BFF) layer that supports future thematic portals. The work spans software engineering, DevOps, Kubernetes operations, and platform reliability. Core Responsibilities

• Design and implement a Back End-for-Front End (BFF) layer that unifies data and functionality from multiple Back End platforms.
• Develop maintainable Back End services in Python, with clear API boundaries and integration contracts.
• Engineer and operate Kubernetes-based infrastructure, including cluster configuration, operators, ingress controllers, and service mesh components.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, supporting automated testing, DTAP environments, and reliable release workflows.
• Manage containerisation workflows with Docker and Kubernetes, ensuring secure, reproducible deployments.
• Implement identity & access management using OAuth2, OIDC, and SAML, supporting federated identity models.
• Strengthen observability through Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, and related tooling, ensuring metrics, logs, and traces are integrated into the platform.
• Apply security-first engineering, including privacy-by-design, secure coding, and alignment with ISO27001 practices.
• Contribute to open-source components, documentation, and shared platform modules.
• Collaborate across multiple engineering teams, aligning on architecture, integration patterns, and long-term platform evolution.

• Senior-level engineer with strong Back End engineering and hands-on DevOps experience.
• Deep familiarity with Kubernetes, cluster operations, operators, ingress controllers, and GitOps-style workflows.
• Comfortable integrating Legacy and modern systems into a coherent platform architecture.
• Experienced in platform engineering, shared services, and large-scale system integrations.
• Strong communicator who can work across teams, build consensus, and drive technical alignment.
• Thrives in MVP/POC environments, where experimentation and iteration are part of the process.
• Thinks in terms of reusable components, scalable infrastructure, and long-term maintainability.