> Markdown version of [/jobs/ext/4176269-senior-devops-engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/jobs/ext/4176269-senior-devops-engineer). Every page supports `.md` or `Accept: text/markdown`. Links point to the HTML versions so they work for humans too. Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior DevOps Engineer - **Company:** Lorum - **Location:** London, UK - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** £68,711.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Automation of Tests, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, Linux, DevOps, Github, Identity and Access Management, Key Management, PostgreSQL, Prometheus, Datadog, Policy as Code, Grafana, Software Security, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Backend, Git, Event Driven Architecture, Integration Tests, Kubernetes, Terraform, Stream Processing, Docker - **Published:** October 24, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5940218775 ## About the Role * Extensive experience operating production cloud infrastructure on AWS * Strong Terraform: writing modules, managing state and workspaces * Practical experience with Atlantis or an equivalent for Git-driven Terraform automation * Hands-on experience building CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions or Workflows * Solid Linux, networking and container fundamentals (Docker), with Kubernetes or ECS experience * A strong testing and automation mindset: infrastructure tests, integration tests and pre-deploy checks * Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus/Grafana, Datadog, ELK or similar) * Security and compliance awareness: IAM, VPC, KMS and secrets management * A clear communicator who is comfortable driving cross-functional operational work and incidents * Able to work hybrid, 3 days/week in our London office * Experience in fintech, payments or other regulated, high-availability environments * PostgreSQL operations, stream processing or event-driven architectures * Policy-as-code (OPA, Sentinel) and infrastructure-as-code security scanning * Terraform Cloud/Enterprise, Terragrunt or similar * SRE or platform engineering experience, including developer self-service tooling * Comfortable having opinions and taking responsibility; you challenge ideas constructively, including from engineers and leadership * Autonomous and comfortable with ambiguity: you are happy building something from scratch rather than waiting for a ticket * Scrappy and cost-conscious, with a high sense of urgency and real technical depth * Collaborative and transparent: you communicate clearly and flag what you change, especially in a compliance-driven environment * Excited by responsibility and by the problem of building infrastructure for regulated clearing * Open to using AI tools as part of your everyday engineering workflow ## Description We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our engineering team in London. You will own and improve the cloud infrastructure, CI/CD and observability that our clearing platform runs on, working directly with backend engineers and Security. As volumes grow and regulatory expectations rise, you will make production safer, more observable and easier to recover, and you will be trusted to form opinions and act on them. * Design, build and maintain AWS infrastructure as code with Terraform, including state management and Git-driven workflows (Atlantis or equivalent) for safe, auditable changes * Build and run GitHub Actions pipelines for build, test, release and infrastructure deployment, with fast pre-merge checks and reliable environments for engineers * Run production services: on-call, incident response, post-mortems and capacity planning, with a focus on resilience and failover * Instrument our systems with metrics, logs and traces, and use that telemetry to drive reliability improvements * Work with Security and GRC on SOC 2 / ISO 27001 requirements: secure deployments, secrets management, IAM, and encryption at rest and in transit * Automate repetitive operational work, build self-service tooling and runbooks for developers, review infrastructure changes and help raise engineering standards * Within your first weeks, ship a concrete improvement to our infrastructure or pipelines * By month 3, be working autonomously across AWS, Terraform and GitHub Actions and have taken ownership of the tools that support them * By month 6, have led improvements to resilience and failover for core production services, with clear runbooks and tested recovery paths * By month 12, have traces and logs aggregated in a central observability stack that engineers use day to day, and be a trusted voice on infrastructure decisions and compliance priorities