Bluefish AI

Staff DevOps Engineer

Bluefish AI

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United Kingdom

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AWSCloudDockerEC2JavaScriptKubernetesNext.jsPythonReactTerraform

About the role

  • Design and maintain AWS infrastructure using best practices (e.g., IaC, security, cost optimization, monitoring).
  • Define and implement infrastructure standards, policies, and governance (e.g., IAM, group permissions, access control)
  • Develop, operate, and improve CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and other tools to support fast and safe deployment of our applications and services.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to define infrastructure requirements and help shape deployment strategies for frontend and backend applications.
  • Proactively monitor system performance, availability, and reliability. Implement observability tooling and incident response processes.
  • Automate provisioning, scaling, and recovery of infrastructure using tools like Terraform.
  • Identify and resolve infrastructure bottlenecks (e.g., database scaling, system performance constraints).
  • Lead initiatives around infrastructure security and compliance, including access control, vulnerability management, secrets management, encryption, and audit readiness.
  • Ensure systems meet relevant security and compliance standards (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR), and support internal and external audits.
  • Mentor engineers on DevOps best practices, advocate for clean and scalable infrastructure design, and help build a strong engineering culture.

Requirements

  • Proven experience in a DevOps, Site Reliability, or Infrastructure Engineering role, ideally in a startup or product-focused environment.
  • Deep expertise in AWS services (EC2, ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, IAM, SQS, SNS etc.) and cloud-native architecture.
  • Strong experience with CI/CD tools and practices, ideally GitHub Actions.
  • Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform) and scripting languages (Python, Bash).
  • Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (ECS/EKS/Kubernetes).
  • Solid understanding of networking, security best practices, and system performance monitoring.
  • Experience implementing and managing security controls and compliance requirements (e.g., ISO 27001, GDPR, SOC 2), including hands-on work with identity management, encryption, and audit logging.
  • Experience supporting modern web stacks, especially applications built with React, Next.js, and Python-based services.
Benefits
  • Unique opportunity to join on the ground floor of a fast-moving startup building at the center of AI
  • Tackle challenging and abstract problems while disrupting the $300BN legacy mar-tech industry
  • Join an experienced high-performing team where you will have immediate ownership and impact
  • Experience a true meritocracy with significant career growth upside as the business scales
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Hard Skills & Tools
AWSCI/CDTerraformPythonBashDockerECSEKSKubernetesnetworking
Soft Skills
collaborationmentoringleadershipadvocacyproblem-solving
Certifications
ISO 27001SOC 2GDPR