Senior DevOps Engineer
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Information technology professionals not elsewhere classified.
Occupation Code Skill LevelHigher Skilled
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£52,300
(£26.82 per hour)
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Description
Application Deadline: 31 March 2026
Department: Engineering
Location: London
Compensation: £80,000 - £100,000 / year
About Us
Go Virtual with GEEIQ - we’re the data platform helping brands like Walmart, Gucci, L’Oréal and Porsche navigate, measure and grow across virtual worlds. Think Ralph Lauren in Fortnite or Elton John in Roblox, that’s where we come in.
Based in London, our 40-person team combines platform data and human expertise to help the world’s biggest brands navigate this new marketing frontier. We believe the metaverse hype is over; brands now demand measurement, attribution and real ROI. That’s what we deliver.
Every idea is valued here - we’re collaborative, curious and ambitious, shaping how brands Go Virtual with confidence.
Our Team
Our Engineering team plays a critical role developing and refining the GEEIQ data platform that helps and empowers our clients - from major brands to emerging players in various industries - to navigate the complexities of virtual worlds.
The GEEIQ engineering team is extremely collaborative, working together to not only build a great platform, but also a great team. We are on a mission to build the leading platform for brands navigating virtual worlds, and the reliability and scalability of that platform are paramount to our success.
Your Focus
As a Senior DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer, you will be a key technical leader responsible for the reliability, scalability, and security of the entire GEEIQ platform. You'll tackle our biggest infrastructure challenges, from scaling our Kubernetes clusters to maturing our observability stack and refining our deployment pipelines.
We are looking for an experienced and pragmatic engineer who is passionate about building robust, automated, and secure systems. You will work alongside our existing DevOps engineer, mentoring them while driving our platform's technical direction. Your goal is to empower our software engineers to ship features quickly and confidently, knowing the underlying platform is rock-solid. This is a hands-on role where you will solve complex operational problems and build the foundation for our next stage of growth.
Key Responsibilities
Platform & Infrastructure Management
We are looking for an experienced and pragmatic engineer who is passionate about building robust, automated, and secure systems. You will work alongside our existing DevOps engineer, mentoring them while driving our platform's technical direction. Your goal is to empower our software engineers to ship features quickly and confidently, knowing the underlying platform is rock-solid. This is a hands-on role where you will solve complex operational problems and build the foundation for our next stage of growth.
Key Responsibilities
Platform & Infrastructure Management
- Own, manage, and evolve our AWS cloud infrastructure, ensuring it is scalable, cost-effective, and secure.
- Lead the architecture and hands-on implementation of our infrastructure using Terraform, maintaining and elevating our Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards.
CI/CD & Developer Experience
- Re-architect and refine our CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions to make them faster, more reliable, and more secure.
- Champion developer productivity by building tools, automating workflows, and reducing friction in the development lifecycle.
Observability & Reliability (SRE)
- Lead the charge on improving our observability strategy. Design and implement a robust monitoring, logging, and alerting framework using tools like Grafana, Prometheus, and native AWS services.
- Enhance our incident response processes, contribute to on-call rotations, and foster a culture of blameless post-mortems.
Security & Governance
- Drive infrastructure security best practices across the board, playing a critical role in our journey towards SOC2 compliance.
What We’re Looking For
Experience:
- Extensive hands-on experience in a DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering role, managing production systems in a cloud environment.
- Deep expertise with AWS and its core services (e.g., EKS, RDS, Lambda, EC2, S3, IAM, VPC).
- Proven, expert-level proficiency with Terraform for managing complex infrastructure as code.
- Extensive experience managing production workloads on Kubernetes, including cluster management, scaling, and security.
- Demonstrated ability to design, build, and significantly improve CI/CD pipelines, with specific experience in GitHub Actions.
- A strong track record of building out and improving observability stacks (monitoring, logging, tracing).
- Experience implementing security controls and working within compliance frameworks (experience with SOC2 is a major plus).
- Proven ability to mentor and collaborate with other engineers.
Technical Skills:
- Cloud: AWS (EKS, RDS, Lambda, etc.)
- IaC: Terraform (Expert)
- Containerisation: Kubernetes, Docker
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions
- Observability: Grafana, Prometheus, AWS CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry/distributed tracing.
- Scripting: Strong proficiency in at least one scripting language (e.g., Python, Go, Bash). Familiarity with JavaScript/TypeScript is a plus, as it's used across our stack.
- Data Services: Operational knowledge of managing databases like RDS (Postgres/MySQL), MongoDB, and Elasticsearch is a huge plus.
Mindset:
- An automation-first approach to everything, with a passion for reducing manual toil.
- A practical, pragmatic, and hands-on approach to problem-solving.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with software engineers.
Team & cultureYou’ll join a small and friendly engineering team
- 5 Developers
Work setup
- Hybrid model: 3 days per week in the office (Monday, Tuesday and Thursday), 2 days remote
- The office is always open and team members are welcome to come in more often if they like
- GEEIQ Day - 1 extra day of paid leave per year on top of annual leave allowance
- Regular Socials - paid socials
- Flexible Hours - core business hours 10am to 5pm
- Remote Working - 5 additional days per year (can be used to WFH or for International Working)
- Cycle to Work Scheme