Staff DevOps Engineer
Summary
Architect cloud-native environments and CI/CD pipelines using Kubernetes, AWS, and Terraform to deploy and scale microservices for a semiconductor-focused product company.
Form of work: We work in the office 5 days a week, so you must be located close to our office in Cambridge Science Park
Job Description
About the Role: You’ll architect resilient cloud‑native environments, streamline deployment pipelines, and deliver tailored automation solutions that drive customer success at scale. This is a high‑impact role for a technical expert who thrives on cross‑functional collaboration, continuous improvement, and delivering value through infrastructure excellence.
A Day in The Life of Our Staff DevOps Engineer:
- Have clear and solid relationships with software development departments.
- Plan and document work and projects.
- Build and continuously optimize CI/CD process and streamline automation effort for server provisioning and applications deployment.
- Build a resilient and scalable service infrastructure to accommodate regions.
- Deploy, monitor and scale application services.
- Mentor team members and drive knowledge sharing.
- Participate in project management and on‑going strategic planning.
Qualifications
- 6+ years of experience in DevOps / SRE environment.
- 6+ years of experience working with Linux and Windows systems.
- Strong understanding and knowledge of Kubernetes.
- Strong understanding and knowledge of cloud infrastructure components such as AWS Cloud (EC2, EKS, RDS, Lambda, Opensearch, S3, FSX, Route53 and network appliances.)
- Working knowledge of Jenkins, GitLab or alternative CI systems.
- Strong understanding of Infrastructure as a Code approach (Terraform preferred).
- Good understanding of Software Development Lifecycle.
- Good understanding of microservice architecture.
- Good experience in monitoring k8s clusters, APM, services and infrastructure located in AWS (NewRelic, Prometheus).
- Ability to create automation tools in Go, Python, Bash, PowerShell.
- Familiarity with Continuous Delivery tools used with microservices.
- Coding Experience.
Additional Information
- Private health insurance including dental coverage
- Pension scheme with company match up to 9%
- 🧘 nilo.health, mental health and wellbeing support
- Remote working abroad program
- Professional development support and resources
- 🥳 Employee referral program
- 28 days' holiday + public holidays and special leave
- Enhanced family and special leave
- 🥪 Free lunch, snacks, and drinks in the office
- 🚗 Electric car charging stations, free office parking, bicycle, and scooter storage