DevOps Engineer

We’re hiring a DevOps Engineer to support the development of a new core banking platform for a fintech startup operating as an Authorised Payment Institution in the UK. You will contribute to cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, monitoring, and reliability engineering — helping to balance fast delivery with long-term scalability and quality, working closely with senior engineers.

YOU WILL

• Act as the primary point of contact for developer requests — triage, troubleshoot, and resolve issues across build, deploy, and runtime contexts.
• Operate and support GCP services, including Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Storage, SSL/certificates, IAM, Pub/Sub, Monitoring, and Memorystore.
• Manage infrastructure with Terraform and configuration with Ansible.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions with safe rollout and rollback capabilities.
• Administer Linux systems; define and maintain monitoring/alerting, and reduce alert noise.
• Handle Cloudflare (DNS, Workers, Routes, WAF).
• Manage networking components, including VPNs, firewalls, VPCs, IdP/SSO, and IAM policies.
• Operate PostgreSQL and MySQL instances: perform backups and restores, optimize performance, and conduct fault diagnosis.
• Automate operational tasks using Python and/or Bash.
• Create and maintain operational documentation and runbooks.
•  Participate in on-call rotation.
• Suggest and build automations to reduce toil and improve reliability.

ABOUT YOU

• Proficient with GCP services (Compute Engine, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Storage, IAM, Pub/Sub, Memorystore, SSL).
• Experienced with Terraform and Ansible.
• CI/CD experience using GitHub Actions.
• Linux administration and monitoring/observability tools experience.
• Experienced with Cloudflare (DNS, Workers, Routes, WAF).
• Networking and access control experience (VPN, VPC, firewalls, IdP/SSO, IAM).
• Operational experience with PostgreSQL and MySQL (backups, restores, performance tuning, fault diagnosis).
• Strong scripting abilities in Python and Bash.
• Comfortable using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code).
• Strong communication skills and dependable remote execution.

NICE TO HAVE
 

• Kubernetes experience (deployment, scaling, service mesh).
• Familiarity with microservices architecture (service boundaries, API patterns, distributed systems).
• Experience with KrakenD API gateway.
• Ability to read/debug Node.js applications.
• Security and compliance exposure (e.g., PCI DSS, vulnerability management).
• Experience with observability stacks.
• Cost optimization and FinOps practices.
• GitOps or declarative deployment workflows.

THE DEAL

• Competitive salary
• Remote work from the UK or Europe (CET ±2)
• Long-term project with real product impact