DevOps Engineer in London working at Smarkets to scale infrastructure and empower developers with cloud solutions. Focused on building robust systems and driving engineering excellence within a collaborative team.
Responsibilities
Design and Own Infrastructure: Architect and maintain robust, cost-effective, and secure infrastructure on AWS using Terraform, Kubernetes, and cloud-native best practices.
Champion Platform Engineering: Build and evolve the internal developer platform (IDP) that empowers engineers to self-serve infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and security tooling.
Debug Production Systems: Triage issues across layers of the stack—Kubernetes, cloud services, networking, applications, data pipelines—and drive root cause analysis and resolution.
Drive DevOps Practices: Implement infrastructure as code (IaC), observability, alerting, and environment provisioning to support engineering teams and production systems.
Promote Engineering Excellence: Establish and uphold standards and best practices across infrastructure, operations, and software delivery.
Scale Microservices Architecture: Lead the buildout of resilient Kubernetes-based microservices across environments, optimizing for cost, performance, and security.
Own Security & Compliance: Take point on security posture and audits (SOC 2, ISO 27001), ensuring our platforms meet rigorous compliance and operational standards.
System Reliability: Optimize performance and availability for high-throughput, low-latency services that power the betting exchange.
Be a Force Multiplier: Mentor other engineers, drive cross-team alignment, and lead initiatives with broad technical and business impact.
Requirements
6+ years in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering roles.
Deep experience with AWS (EKS, VPC, EC2, S3, IAM, RDS), Terraform (IaC), and Linux systems.
Kubernetes expertise, including Helm, ingress configuration, scaling strategies, and security hardening.
Strong skills in Python and Bash; automation is your second nature.
Proficiency in VPNs, VPC peering, DNS, TLS, and identity management (OIDC/SAML).
Experience with Grafana, Prometheus, ELK stack, Sentry, and building robust monitoring/alerting pipelines.
Hands-on with GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Backstage, or similar IDP tooling to build cohesive internal platforms.
Experience supporting PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, and object storage like S3 in production environments.
Familiarity with security frameworks, incident response, RBAC/least privilege models, and compliance workflows.
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
£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!
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