Hybrid DevOps Engineer

at Smarkets

• Job title: DevOps Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior, Mid level
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Grafana, Jenkins, Kafka, Kubernetes, Linux, Microservices, Postgres, Prometheus, Python, Redis, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

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).

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

• 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!