About the role

DevOps Engineer at Smarkets transforming the betting exchange industry by enhancing infrastructure. Focused on developer productivity through automation and operational excellence within a hybrid model.

Responsibilities

Platform Enablement: Design and maintain internal tooling and workflows that improve the developer experience across deployment pipelines, observability and testing environments.
Empower Developers (DevEx): Automate workflows, streamline CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab), and ensure fast, safe, and reliable deployments across environments.
Infrastructure Automation: Build, manage, and scale Kubernetes-based microservices infrastructure on AWS using Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code best practices.
Developer Experience: Collaborate closely with product engineers to provide reliable, low-friction paths for development, testing, and deployment.
Operational Excellence: Monitor, debug, and ensure the stability of our systems with robust alerting and logging using Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK.
System Reliability: Optimize performance and availability for high-throughput, low-latency services that power the betting exchange.
Collaborative Delivery: Participate in on-call rotations, incident reviews, and cross-functional projects with engineering and SRE teams.
Security & Compliance: Contribute to secure system design and operational practices that support industry-standard compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc).

2–4 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering roles.
Strong Linux systems administration background.
Proficiency in Python and Bash scripting.
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS (or other public clouds).
Familiarity with PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, and production-scale deployment.
Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI) and a passion for improving the build/deploy process.
A pragmatic mindset that balances ideal solutions with immediate business needs.
Curiosity and initiative to explore new technologies and bring fresh thinking into the team.

Stock options which vests over 4 years
Pension scheme - an impressive pension scheme via Aviva. We will match 6% if you choose the same
Health insurance
Fresh fruit and snacks provided in the office everyday! (tea, coffee and soft drinks also included)
We're a member of a cycle to work scheme
We want to continue to invest in all our employees and do so by providing a £1000 yearly education budget that can be used on courses, conferences, books or training
25 days paid holiday + bank holidays to enjoy - you have the choice to carry over 5 days to the next year!
Flexible working - we want to provide a hybrid model approach to working and provide you with 2 days a week working from home
20 days a year of global working - we provide the ability to work from anywhere in the world for up to 20 days a year
We will provide you lunch everyday in the office - you don't need to worry about what to make or buy for lunch as we have it sorted with top quality food served by our in-house chef Alex!