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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior DevOps Engineer - **Company:** Xiatech - **Location:** London, UK (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** £58,735.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Bash Shell, Big Data, BigQuery, Cloud Computing, Databases, Continuous Integration, Linux, DevOps, Programming Tools, Distributed Systems, Amazon DynamoDB, Github, Apache Hadoop, Monitoring of Systems, JSON, Python (Programming Language), MongoDB, Network Architecture, Reliability Engineering, Cloud Services, Service Design, Software Deployment, Software Engineering, Systems Integration, YAML, Circleci, Scripting, Google Cloud, Apache Spark, Cyber Threat Analysis, Marshalling, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Build Management, Amazon Relational Database Service, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Terraform, Software Version Control, Serverless Computing, Docker, Databricks, Golang, Programming Languages, Microservices - **Published:** September 24, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5895232336 ## About the Role * The Senior DevOps Engineer will have at least 5+ years experience designing and operating production GCP Public Cloud and Kubernetes based platforms and a vast experience with cloud native architectures and tools. Broad use of AWS services, serverless (Lambda, ECS, ApiGateWay), network Infrastructure, and service monitoring. * Experience with Google Cloud Platform (VPC, PSC, GKE, Cloud Armour) * Strong Kubernetes and Docker experience * Proven experience leading the strategic technical design and operational service design of a mission critical big data or microservices platform. Must have a strong background of leading the design and build of externally facing infrastructure in Cloud services particularly GCP. * Experience in high throughput distributed systems & Microservices, ideally real-time event processing systems at scale; such as Pulsar, Kafka, RedPanda. * Must have knowledge and experience automatically provisioning and supporting multiple big data technologies; such as MongoDB, DataBricks, Big Query, Hadoop, Spark, Trino, DataLakes/Lakehouse Architectures. * Infrastructure management with Terraform * Experience with Github or any other source control * Knowledge of Scripting/Coding languages - Go, Bash, Python * Confident working with Yaml and Json files * Linux knowledge * Any CI/CD tool (CircleCI, ArgoCD Preferred) * Systems integration across Cloud providers * Experience with AWS databases, RDS, DynamoDB, DocumentDB - but not necessarily a DBA * Excellent teamwork and communication skills * Strong problem-solving skills * Good attention to detail * Excellent organisational and time management skills, and the ability to work on multiple projects at the same time * Experience of working with Agile teams, and principles * Excellent diagnostic and analytical troubleshooting skill Desirable * Ideally some experience with security and ISO27001 Your Personality * Energetic & driven * Innovative * Resilient * Insightful * Creative * Problem solver * Sound judgement * Analytical * Capacity to learn ## Description As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will combine aspects of systems design and administration at scale in the Cloud. You will work closely with our software engineers to assist in developing infrastructure orchestration, and continuous integration systems. Adding automation to support both infrastructure and code deployment, built using cloud native principles, with scalability baked in., As a crucial and influential member of the Xiatech platform team the Senior DevOps Engineer will report to the Lead DevOps Engineer and work with the Director Of Product and Architecture, Product Owners, Product Architects and Principal Engineers to set, design and build the strategic vision for the underlying Cloud Infrastructure and Operational Capabilities of the Xfuze Platform. With a natural knack of diagnosing problems and identifying solutions, you will be well versed in creating resilient systems with builtin failover safety. This is a fantastic opportunity for a driven individual looking for a role which will have a genuine impact from day one in a rapidly expanding organisation., Platform engineering & automation * Building and configuring new development tools and infrastructure * Ensure that all critical platform processes from provisioning to scale out maintain and continuously improve to a high level of automation avoiding reactive problem solving. Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes * Identifying technical problems and developing software updates and 'fixes' * Guide the team in the provision of best in class Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) capability and practices as it relates to the platform * Help define and implement the onboarding process for new customers to the platform from the platform infrastructure and automation perspective to create a seamless experience * Testing and examining code written by others and analysing results Security * Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats * Ensure the platform maintains comprehensive security (Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability) requirements in accordance with the CISO and CDO. * Participate hands-on in the implementation of the roadmap items marshalling these items to production and guiding team members where required. Working with the developers, QA and other team members * Working with software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended * Understand the needs of Engineers and Test Teams in relation to the platform roadmap priorities to ensure an infrastructure strategy that continuously compounds engineering productivity and effectiveness. 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