DevOps Engineer

A UK-based organisation is building a shared infrastructure platform designed to support financial services access in local communities. The platform enables multiple institutions to provide services through a unified physical and digital presence, helping people access cash, receive support, and engage with financial products. Role Overview We're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join a small engineering team and help build and scale a production-grade platform. This is a hands-on role where you'll work across both platform and application layers. While contributing to infrastructure and cloud environments, a key part of the role is working closely with services, codebases, and developer workflows to improve how software is built, deployed, and operated. You'll take ownership across the stack - collaborating with engineers, improving systems end-to-end, and helping the team deliver reliably as the platform continues to grow. Core Technology Stack

• TypeScript / Node.js frameworks (e.g. NestJS or similar)
• AWS (EC2, container services, serverless, API Gateway)
• PostgreSQL / managed relational databases
• Terraform (Infrastructure as Code)
• CI/CD tooling (e.g. Git-based pipelines)
• Monitoring & logging tools (e.g. Cloud-native observability)
• Git

Responsibilities Platform & Application Engineering

• Support and improve backend services with a focus on performance, scalability, and reliability
• Contribute to system design and architecture decisions
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues across both application and infrastructure layers

CI/CD & Delivery

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support reliable delivery
• Improve release processes to enable fast, safe, and repeatable deployments
• Work closely with engineers to align pipelines with application and team needs

Developer Experience

• Improve developer workflows across build, test, and deployment
• Build tooling and automation to reduce friction and increase productivity
• Support local development and environment consistency

Infrastructure & Cloud

• Maintain and evolve cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code
• Support container-based workloads
• Ensure environments are consistent, scalable, and aligned with application needs

Observability & Reliability

• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting focused on system and application health
• Support incident response and debugging across the stack
• Drive ongoing improvements to reliability and performance

• Strong experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Software Engineering
• Good programming experience (TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, or similar)
• Experience working with backend services or APIs
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Production experience with a major cloud provider (e.g. AWS)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar)
• Comfortable working across both code and infrastructure

Desirable Skills

• Experience with TypeScript-based backend frameworks
• Database tuning and optimisation (PostgreSQL or similar)
• Experience with container-based architectures
• Building internal tooling or improving developer platforms
• Exposure to distributed systems or event-driven architectures
• Experience in regulated or financial environments, * Engineers who enjoy working in scaling environments where systems and challenges evolve rapidly
• Individuals motivated by growth - both personally and in the platforms they build
• People comfortable in a high-ownership, fast-moving environment
• Engineers who want to influence architecture, tooling, and ways of working
• A mindset focused on continuous improvement and raising standards
• Collaborative individuals who help teams scale effectively