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You thrive in environments where operational thinking, curiosity, and continuous improvement are valued.Proven experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering rolesStrong hands-on experience running Kubernetes in productionExperience with AWS and/or Azure cloud platformsSolid experience with Terraform and IaC automationExperience participating in or managing production incidents and on-callStrong grasp of monitoring, alerting, and observability principlesAbility to diagnose and fix complex distributed systems issuesDemonstrated use of GenAI tools (ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Claude) in engineering workflowsExcellent communication and calmness under pressureA passion for automation and reducing toilNice to haves...Experience with Grafana Cloud, IRM or other incident management toolsFamiliarity with Argo Workflows / ArgoCDExperience defining SLIs/SLOs at scaleBackground in Platform EngineeringExperience improving or redesigning incident management processesWe're an ## Description A bit about us...Please allow us to celebrate our own success for a moment... We've built a customer-centric product that is market-leading, and we are smashing it!We're a multi-award-winning digital payments and insights platform within the automotive industry. We support over 5,000 automotive retailers, helping drivers spread the cost of motoring bills, accessories and servicing through flexible payment options. Our purpose is simple: to give drivers peace of mind while improving the customer experience and supporting dealer profitability.Following our successful Series B in 2024, Bumper continues to scale across the UK and Europe - and we're excited to welcome a passionate and experienced DevOps / SRE Engineer, based in our Sheffield office, to help us take our platform reliability and engineering excellence to the next level.Our Head Office is in Sheffield City Centre, with offices also based in London and Turkey. We've also expanded further, bringing retailers in Ireland, Germany and Spain on board, with the vision of being the leading automotive payment and insights platform!A bit about the role...We're looking for a DevOps / SRE 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.You'll report directly to our Chief Technology Officer 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.This is a full-time hybrid-role, based in our Sheffield Office, at least 3 days a week.What we are looking for in you...We're excited to welcome someone who shares our passion for building reliable, scalable, well-engineered cloud ## Related Videos - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [Livecoding with AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1201-livecoding-with-ai) - [Shifting Stress to Progress— Understanding DevOps to do DevOps Better](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/268-shifting-stress-to-progress-understanding-devops-to-do-devops-better) - [Monitoring as Code - Managing your dashboards at scale](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/753-monitoring-as-code-managing-your-dashboards-at-scale) - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [DevOps for AI: running LLMs in production with Kubernetes and KubeFlow](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1222-devops-for-ai-running-llms-in-production-with-kubernetes-and-kubeflow) ## Related Articles - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [WeAreDevelopers Dev Digest Issue 116 - The new search wars…](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/445-wearedevelopers-dev-digest-issue-116-the-new-search-wars) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Dev Digest 137 - AI'm not sure about this](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/485-dev-digest-137-ai-m-not-sure-about-this)