Senior Devops Engineer to $6000

About QOVES

We make software that helps patients and cosmetic medical clinics diagnose, plan, and visualize appearance improvements. Our platform is used by clinics worldwide with an online fan base of 2 million+ and quickly growing.

Unlike typical cloud-only startups, we've built a cost-optimized hybrid infrastructure that combines AWS CDN delivery, bare metal compute, Kubernetes clusters, and self-hosted internal tools, saving significantly on compute while maintaining enterprise-grade security and performance.

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to establish and lead our DevOps culture from the ground up in our London headquarters. This isn't just about maintaining infrastructure, you'll be setting company-wide policy, building security-hardened environments, and creating the documentation and processes that will scale with us.

In short, you will be guiding the technical team on how to ensure our Production systems stay robustly online to serve our many customers.

What You'll Build

• Hybrid Infrastructure Management: Architect and maintain our unique infrastructure spanning AWS CDN, bare metal servers, and Kubernetes clusters for computationally intensive facial analysis workloads
• CI/CD Pipeline Architecture: Design and implement CircleCI or Jenkins pipelines with comprehensive build testing, versioning, and change logging
• Zero-Trust Networking: Build and maintain mesh topology networks using Tailscale or Wireguard to securely connect our hybrid infrastructure
• Security-First Culture: Establish and enforce security policies including key rotation, access controls, compliance frameworks, and employee security management
• Infrastructure as Code: Document and codify all infrastructure decisions, creating repeatable, auditable deployments
• Containerization Strategy: Implement and optimize Docker/K8s deployments for our AI/ML workloads
• Cost Optimization: Continue our approach of strategic compute placement using owned, rented or borrowed infrastructure where it makes financial sense without sacrificing security or reliability
• Observability & Monitoring: Implement comprehensive logging, monitoring, and alerting across our distributed systems

What You Bring

• 5+ years of DevOps or infrastructure engineering experience, with a track record of building from scratch
• Hybrid infrastructure expertise: Experience managing both cloud (AWS) and self-hosted infrastructure, understanding the tradeoffs and security risks of each
• Kubernetes production experience: Deep knowledge of K8s cluster design, operations, and scaling
• Networking mastery: Strong understanding of VPCs, mesh networks, VPNs, and zero-trust architectures (Tailscale, Wireguard, or similar)
• Security-first mindset: Experience with security compliance, key management, IAM policies, and hardening production systems
• CI/CD expertise: Hands-on experience building robust pipelines (CircleCI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar) for build testing before deployment
• Infrastructure as Code: Proficiency with Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools
• Scripting & automation: Strong Python, Bash, or Go skills for tooling and automation
• Policy & documentation: Ability to establish best practices and document them clearly for team adoption
• Leadership mentality: Comfortable setting standards and directing technical decisions, not just executing them

Technologies We Use

• Cloud: AWS (CDN, S3, IAM)
• Compute: Bare metal servers, Kubernetes (transitioning from bare metal)
• Networking: Tailscale/Wireguard for mesh topology, zero-trust architecture
• CI/CD: CircleCI or Jenkins
• Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes
• IaC: Terraform
• Monitoring: Grafana, Sentry, Glance

Why QOVES?

• Ownership & Impact: You'll establish the DevOps foundation and policy that scales with the company.
• Profitable & Growing: We're VC-backed and profitable, meaning sustainable growth and job security
• Real-World AI: Work on infrastructure powering actual AI/ML workloads used by medical professionals worldwide
• Security Focus: Build a security-hardened culture from day one, not retrofit it later
• Small Team, Big Decisions: Your architectural choices will shape how we scale to the next level

What Success Looks Like

• You've audited our current infrastructure, documented everything, and established a roadmap
• CI/CD pipelines are running, security policies are enforced, and zero-trust networking is operational
• The team is following your documented standards, infrastructure is code, and we're scaling confidently

Compensation

Competitive salary based on experience, equity options, and benefits. We value expertise and are prepared to compensate accordingly for the right candidate.