SRE/DevOps Engineer
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Job description
We're looking for an SRE/DevOps Engineer to join our growing Infrastructure team. In this role, you'll help shape and strengthen the reliability, scalability and observability of our cloud-native platform. You'll work across the business to improve how we build, deploy and monitor our systems, while playing a key role in incident response and continuous improvement.
This is a full-time role with at least three days a week working from one of our UK offices (Sheffield or London - Hammersmith). You'll report directly to our Head of DevOps & Infrastructure and will collaborate closely with engineers across Bumper to build a high-performance, well-monitored, developer-friendly platform - and you'll be a key voice in building a strong SRE and DevOps culture across the team.
Day-to-day responsibilities:
- Design, build and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure
- Manage and enhance our Kubernetes (EKS) platform to support reliable, modern applications
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Helm
- Improve and support CI/CD pipelines using Argo Workflows, ArgoCD and GitHub Actions
- Lead and participate in incident response, including on-call activities and major incident coordination
- Drive high-quality monitoring, alerting and observability across metrics, logs and traces
- Conduct and support blameless post-incident reviews, ensuring follow-up actions are delivered
- Define and implement SLIs/SLOs to improve service reliability and operational excellence
- Collaborate with engineering teams to embed best practices and improve developer experience
- Contribute to automation, tooling, and continuous improvements that reduce toil and increase platform resilience
Requirements
We're excited to welcome someone who shares our passion for building reliable, scalable, well-engineered cloud systems. You thrive in environments where operational thinking, curiosity, and continuous improvement are valued.
- Proven experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles
- Strong hands-on experience running Kubernetes in production
- Experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms
- Solid experience with Terraform and IaC automation
- Experience participating in or managing production incidents and on-call
- Strong grasp of monitoring, alerting, and observability principles
- Ability to diagnose and fix complex distributed systems issues
- Demonstrated use of GenAI tools (ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Claude) in engineering workflows
- Excellent communication and calmness under pressure
- A passion for automation and reducing toil
Nice to haves...
- Experience with Grafana Cloud, IRM or other incident management tools
- Familiarity with Argo Workflows / ArgoCD
- Experience defining SLIs/SLOs at scale
- Background in Platform Engineering
- Experience improving or redesigning incident management processes
We're an international team, and English is our shared working language. You'll collaborate frequently with colleagues in the UK, so confidence communicating in English is important for this role.
Benefits & conditions
- Competitive Salary
- Company bonus scheme
- Private Healthcare and Medicash plan
- We give 26 days holiday + bank holidays, plus volunteer days throughout the year (pro-rated)
- Tax-saving Salary Sacrifice Pension with Aviva
- Salary sacrifice Cycle to Work, Octopus Electric Vehicle, and Nursery fee schemes available!
- For all your well-being and development needs, we give each colleague access to a benefits platform, with an allowance of £250 per year for wellbeing, and £150 per year for development
- Our Bumper Flex policy for better work/life balance
- Annual company-wide Bumper Retreat - a few days of fun, collaboration, and mingling(make sure your passport's in date!)
- If and when the time comes, we will give 4 months paid leave to primary carers, and 1 month of paid leave to secondary carers
Perks are nice, but we know perks don't make up the whole package of a great job. By joining our Bumper team, you'll have the opportunity to be an ambassador for our product & brand, and help us to continue on our winning streak!
