Senior DevOps Engineer

Climate X

full-time

Posted on: 10/7/2025

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Senior

AWSCloudKubernetesTerraform

About the role

Enhance and evolve our AWS platform: Evolve our AWS infrastructure and delivery pipelines to support faster, more reliable deployments and developer workflows.
Shape the architectural blueprint for scaling: Design scalable, secure CI/CD processes and infrastructure to accelerate software delivery.
Drive best practices in observability and monitoring: building robust logging, metrics, and alerting to ensure systems are transparent and issues are caught early.
Act as DevOps leadership: Provide DevOps leadership in modern deployment strategies (Kubernetes, GitOps, CI/CD), fostering knowledge sharing across the engineering org.
Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, ArgoCD) to support secure, fast, and automated software delivery.
Manage containerized and serverless workloads across AWS, including Kubernetes (EKS), ECS/Fargate, and Lambda, ensuring reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
Enhance and evolve our AWS platform: improve performance across Kubernetes workloads, serverless systems, and data-driven services.
Lead migration initiatives from ECS to EKS, enabling more standardized and reliable deployments across environments.

Strong experience designing and managing AWS infrastructure, including EKS, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, RDS, CloudFront, and VPC.
Solid expertise with Kubernetes (EKS preferred) - including scaling, monitoring, and migrating workloads.
Proven experience with CI/CD tooling and DevOps automation (e.g., GitHub Actions, ArgoCD).
Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
Deep understanding of cloud security best practices, IAM policies, and secrets management.
Proven expertise in cross-account AWS networking (Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, VPC Peering, Route 53).
Experience implementing observability frameworks, including monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting solutions.

Benefits

🌍 Contribute to a business making purposeful impact related to climate change
💡 Monthly training & conference budget to help you upskill and develop your career (£1,000 per year)
📈 6 monthly appraisals and 12 monthly pay reviews
💰 Pension contribution scheme
🏡 Hybrid working (3 days/week in office)
🏥 Mental Health and Wellbeing support via Oliva
🏖 25 days holiday, plus Bank Holidays, annual 3-day Christmas-closure, and half day on your birthday (36.5 days total!)
🏏 Optional quarterly socials, dinners, and fun nights out
🥐 A fully stocked supply of snacks, fruit, and refreshments for the days when you are in the office
🚴 Cycle to work scheme via gogeta
🍼 Enhanced maternity and paternity
🐶 Pawternity
🐕 Dog friendly office (official residence of Alfie, Chief Mischief Officer)

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