Senior DevOps Engineer

Could you be our next Senior DevOps Engineer?

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[Employer hidden] – Who are we?

[Employer hidden] is the original end-to-end business technology provider for estate agencies of all sizes. We’ve been helping sales and lettings agents build relationships and grow their businesses for more than 25 years. Our technology empowers property professionals across Europe, the Middle East, Australia, and New Zealand to work with buyers, sellers, tenants, and landlords to deliver a dream home experience.

Worldwide, over 78,000 agents across more than 15,000 branches use [Employer hidden] to run their businesses, manage properties, collect rent, engage clients, and provide outstanding customer service every time.

What you’ll be doing

• Design, build and maintain secure, scalable, and resilient AWS infrastructure
• Implement and enhance CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
• Work with Terraform, AWS CDK, and Pulumi to manage infrastructure as code
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to deliver infrastructure for new initiatives
• Participate actively in team discussions, providing input, feedback, and solutions
• Take complete ownership of assigned tasks from planning through delivery
• Communicate progress, blockers, and risks proactively and transparently
• Support incident response, including escalation, resolution, and post‑incident improvements
• Document systems, processes, and technical decisions clearly and accurately
• Handle context switching effectively when priorities shift
• Contribute to reducing technical debt across environments
• Maintain a strong security and compliance mindset in all designs and implementations
• Step up during high‑pressure events, escalations, and critical incidents
• Ensure reliable availability during agreed working

Who we’re looking for

At [Employer hidden], we prioritise hiring individuals who share our values and possess the right attitudes and behaviours for success. Whilst some of the listed requirements may be important, don’t worry if you don’t meet all of them, we’d still like to hear from you.

• AWS (must have deep knowledge of):
• VPC
• Transit Gateway
• VPC Peering
• S3
• Lambda
• Step Functions
• EventBridge
• API Gateway
• Aurora
• Dynamo DB
• ASG
• ECS
• ALB/NLB
• CloudWatch
• Control Tower
• Service Catalogue
• Working in production environments where availability and resilience are critical

Tooling & Automation

• GitHub & GitHub Actions
• Terraform
• AWS CDK
• Pulumi
• Python (automation, tooling, scripting)
• Cloudflare
• Cloudformation
• ProxySQL
• DataDog
• Infisical

What your impact and success looks like

As a Senior DevOps Engineer we expect your success and impact in the early stages of your career with us to look something like this:

Within 1 month:

• Understand existing infrastructure, tooling, and workflows
• Shadow team members and deliver small, scoped tasks
• Demonstrate consistent communication and reliability

Within 3 months:

• Independently deliver medium-sized work items
• Show rapid learning and understanding of the tech stack
• Contribute to team discussions and solution design

Within 6 months:

• Lead delivery of infrastructure components
• Demonstrate strong ownership of responsibilities
• Participate actively in incident handling and improvement initiatives
• Be fully integrated into the team's delivery rhythm and expectations

What’s in it for you?

We operate a Flexible Working Policy and we would like for you to work from our Solihull or London location, 1 day a month

We’re offering the chance to really make a difference here at [Employer hidden] and the opportunity for personal growth is very real. You’ll feel part of a special team. You can expect a highly competitive salary and some great benefits, including:

• 5.5% employer pension contribution
• 20 days annual leave (plus a day for your birthday) increasing by a day for every year worked
• Business permitting, we’re closed over Christmas and New Year, to give you time back to your friends and family
• Formal and in-house training for your L&D plus access to Go1 – the worlds largest online learning library
• Health benefits via Benenden Health, annual flu vaccinations and many others
• Season ticket loan
• Regular local and companywide social events including Tucker Thursday - mouth-watering cuisine delivered straight to the office doors once a month!
• Opportunity to participate in retail benefits and savings via our Benefits partner, Zest!

Don’t tick all the boxes? Neither do we

We care about our industry and want it to become a more inclusive and diverse place to work. So, we’re driven by hiring not only by experience and relevance for the role but by sharing our values and the right attitudes and behaviours for success.

We are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity through attracting and retaining a complementary team of employees and building an inclusive environment for all.

We feel we have an empowering environment where everyone is supported and respected, and we want you to feel this too. We welcome new ideas, thinking and approaches, whilst listening to all our employees.

Department
: Technology

Locations
: [Employer hidden] London office , [Employer hidden] Solihull office