Staff DevOps Engineer

CompanySimply Business

LocationLondon Area, United Kingdom

Posted At12/5/2025

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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

Here’s what you’ll be doing:

We're looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer to join our team. In this role, you'll have significant technical responsibility within a Platform Engineering team which consists of another 7 engineers and supports core elements of our Internal Developer Platform (IDP).Reporting into the DevOps Engineering Lead, this role will be central in delivering change and strategy in an agile and transparent way to the Internal Developer Platform (IDP). The role requires a team player who is highly technical, organised and a passion for excellence. You will provide clarity on the PEST roadmap and priority of work which will align to the business needs and IDP goals. You will be hands-on in terms of delivering new features for our IDP and internal PaaS.

We're looking for someone who is:

Mentor, and Develop: Provide expert technical mentorship to grow the team's skills and careers.
Set and Execute Technical Vision: Partnering with our DevOps Engineering Lead you will design, architect and lead the implementation of our infrastructure roadmap.
Systemic Improvement: Identifying system-wide bottlenecks, technical debt and inefficiencies; proposing solutions that result in significant improvements to developer productivity, security, reliability and cost.
Champion a Modern DevOps Culture: Drive our principles of automation, self-service tooling and a "you build it, you run it" mindset.
Complex Problem Solving: Remain hands-on and excelling at identifying and solving the most ambiguous, high-impact technical problems.
Elevate the Developer Experience (DevEx): Act as a key architect for our IDP, treating infrastructure as a product.

As our Staff DevOps Engineer, you'll:

Set and Execute the Technical Vision, partnering with the Lead to design, architect, and lead the implementation of our next-generation infrastructure roadmap.
Elevate the Developer Experience (DevEx) by acting as a key architect for our IDP, treating internal infrastructure as a core product offering.
Provide Expert Mentorship, offering technical guidance and coaching to develop the team's skills and actively grow the careers of our engineers.
Drive Systemic Improvement, identifying organization-wide bottlenecks, tackling technical debt, and proposing solutions that boost developer productivity and reliability.
Champion a Modern DevOps Culture, driving our principles of automation, self-service tooling, and fostering a "you build it, you run it" mindset.
Lead Complex Problem Solving, remaining hands-on to diagnose and resolve the most ambiguous, high-impact technical problems across the platform.

An insight into our Internal Developer Platform:

Developer Portal: Backstage
Version Control: Github
AI Pair Programmer: Github CoPilot
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Cloudformation, Ansible
Container Management: Docker
Continuous Integration: Semaphore
Continuous Deployment: - Github Actions / AWS CodeBuild / Bespoke tooling
Binary and Artifact Management: Nexus
Observability: New Relic (Log Ingestion, Application Performance Monitoring, Infrastructure Monitoring)
Cloud Computing: Amazon Web Services (ECR, ECS, Bedrock, Fargate, Lambda, Route 53……), Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Azure
Database: MongoDB Atlas, AWS Aurora Postgres
Message Broker: Confluent Kafka
Web Application Firewall: Cloudflare

For the Staff DevOps Engineer, the challenge isn't just maintaining systems—it's treating reliability and velocity as architectural products. If the idea of engineering 'rainbow deployments' for A/B testing, migrating thousands of containers with zero downtime, and using AI to auto-generate IaC excites you, then you belong here. This role offers the scope, complexity, and autonomy required to move beyond incremental change and truly redefine what high-performance infrastructure means for a modern software organisation.

(We know it’s tough, but please try to avoid the confidence gap . You don’t have to match all the bullet points above to be considered for this role.)

We encourage people of all different backgrounds and identities to apply. We are committed to maintaining an inclusive, supportive place for you to be you and do your very best work.

Apply Today!