DevOps Engineer

Engineer (Senior) – Platform, Infrastructure & DevOps

This role is ideal for a senior engineer with deep backend expertise and strong platform‑engineering instincts. You’ll work in a complex, multi‑team environment where the focus is on building scalable, reusable infrastructure components, integrating multiple backend systems, and delivering a robust backend‑for‑frontend (BFF) layer that supports future thematic portals. The work spans software engineering, DevOps, Kubernetes operations, and platform reliability.

Core Responsibilities

• Design and implement a backend‑for‑frontend (BFF) layer that unifies data and functionality from multiple backend platforms.

• Develop maintainable backend services in Python , with clear API boundaries and integration contracts.

• Engineer and operate Kubernetes‑based infrastructure , including cluster configuration, operators, ingress controllers, and service mesh components.

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, supporting automated testing, DTAP environments, and reliable release workflows.

• Manage containerisation workflows with Docker and Kubernetes, ensuring secure, reproducible deployments.

• Implement identity & access management using OAuth2, OIDC, and SAML, supporting federated identity models.

• Strengthen observability through Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, and related tooling, ensuring metrics, logs, and traces are integrated into the platform.

• Apply security‑first engineering , including privacy‑by‑design, secure coding, and alignment with ISO27001 practices.

• Contribute to open‑source components , documentation, and shared platform modules.

• Collaborate across multiple engineering teams , aligning on architecture, integration patterns, and long‑term platform evolution.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Senior‑level engineer with strong backend engineering and hands‑on DevOps experience.

• Deep familiarity with Kubernetes , cluster operations, operators, ingress controllers, and GitOps‑style workflows.

• Comfortable integrating legacy and modern systems into a coherent platform architecture.

• Experienced in platform engineering , shared services, and large‑scale system integrations.

• Strong communicator who can work across teams, build consensus, and drive technical alignment.

• Thrives in MVP/POC environments , where experimentation and iteration are part of the process.

• Thinks in terms of reusable components , scalable infrastructure, and long‑term maintainability.