DevOps Engineer

About the Role

You will join [Employer hidden] at a pivotal moment in the company’s journey. Our company is being built by exceptional engineers - people who find high-impact and technically challenging work engaging and exciting, and who consistently deliver outsized impact. You will collaborate with other brilliant minds to solve some of the world’s hardest and most important problems.

You will have ownership and autonomy from Day One. There is no corporate ladder at [Employer hidden]. From your first day, you will directly influence the design, functionality, and direction of [Employer hidden]’s product offering. We hire the best people and give them extremely high levels of autonomy; the sky is the limit for an individual with the right ambition.

This is a high-impact role centered on Platform Engineering and Developer Experience (DevEx). You will take full ownership of our internal development ecosystem, evolving it into a robust, self-service platform that abstracts infrastructure complexity.

Your goal is to design and maintain the "Golden Path": the standardized, automated route from local code to a production-ready state. You are a versatile engineer who views infrastructure as a product and internal developers as your primary customers.

• Platform Product Management: Take end-to-end ownership of the internal developer platform, identifying bottlenecks in the software delivery lifecycle and building automated solutions to resolve them
• Golden Path Engineering: Architect and evolve standardized deployment patterns that bake in security, compliance, and observability, allowing product teams to focus strictly on business logic
• Tooling Infrastructure: Manage the lifecycle of our self-hosted engineering suite (e.g., GitLab), ensuring high availability, performance, and seamless integration with the wider ecosystem
• Continuous Delivery Evolution: Drive the adoption of modern deployment methodologies (such as GitOps) to ensure declarative, reproducible, and audited state management across all environments
• Building secure, robust software by adhering to secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP) and internal security policies throughout the development lifecycle

Who you are

If you are motivated by our mission and if you want to be part of a growing team of outstanding people, then we want to hear from you.

• Platform Ownership: 3+ years of experience building or scaling internal developer platforms or sophisticated CI/CD ecosystems
• Architectural Versatility: Deep understanding of cloud-native primitives (Compute, Networking, Storage) and the ability to implement them across different providers or hybrid environments
• Orchestration Expertise: Proven ability to manage container orchestration at scale, focusing on abstracting complexity for end-users rather than just "managing clusters."
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Expert-level proficiency in declarative configuration management and modular code design (e.g., Terraform, OpenTofu, or Pulumi)
• Automation Mindset: Strong competency in scripting or systems programming (Python, Go, or Bash) to glue disparate systems into a unified platform

We want [Employer hidden] to bring together individuals from diverse backgrounds and perspectives. We don't expect everyone to have experience across each of these areas. Please apply even if you only partially fulfil this list.

We require that all candidates have an existing Right to Work in the UK at the time of application.

We believe in working closely with defence customers. As a result, this role will require the individual to hold a clearance or be willing to undergo UK security vetting to Security Check (SC) or above. This normally requires having continuous residency in the UK for at least 5 years.

Desirable

• Self-Hosted Infrastructure Management: Experience maintaining and scaling critical engineering tools (e.g., GitLab, Artifactory, or SonarQube) at the enterprise level, including backup/restore and high-availability strategies
• Evolutionary Architecture: Proven experience migrating workloads between platforms (e.g., EC2 to EKS, or cross-cloud) with a focus on data integrity and minimal downtime
• Observability as a Service: Ability to implement standardized telemetry pipelines (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, or ELK) that provide developers with out-of-the-box visibility into their services
• Platform Security (DevSecOps): Familiarity with automated policy enforcement and compliance-as-code (e.g., OPA, Kyverno, or AWS Config) to maintain CyberEssentials+/ISO standards without manual intervention
• Software Engineering Fundamentals: Proficiency in a high-level language (Go, Python, or Rust) to build custom controllers, CLI tools, or API shims that enhance the platform’s capabilities
• FinOps & Resource Efficiency: Experience implementing automated cost-attribution and rightsizing logic to ensure the platform remains economically sustainable as it scales
• Knowledge of service mesh architectures: Istio or Linkerd, for traffic management and mTLS
• Experience with classified networks: Experience with Official Sensitive and/or Sensitive networks

Application process

• CV submission with initial questions
• Introductory Teams call (30-45 mins)
• In-person technical interview (1-2 hours)
• Final interview with one of [Employer hidden]’s Founders (30 mins)

Company Benefits

• The opportunity to work with world-class engineers on a wide range of technologies
• Free training and education to quickly fill knowledge gaps
• The best resources and equipment required to do your job
• Exposure to working closely with customers on real problems
• Free meals and snacks in the office
• 7% employer pension contribution
• Employee Stock Options for everyone, so we all have a stake in the company’s growth
• Relocation support

About [Employer hidden]

[Employer hidden] confronts the danger posed by landmines, a persistent threat in conflict-ridden regions worldwide. Traditional demining methods are often slow, costly, and perilous, risking the lives of deminers.

To address this critical issue, [Employer hidden] pioneers AI-enhanced solutions tailored for defense applications. Its demining service utilises drones equipped with specialised sensors, leveraging AI to detect and safely dispose of landmines.

By combining advanced technology with innovative approaches, [Employer hidden] aims to revolutionise the demining process, offering a safer and more efficient alternative to conventional methods. Through its dedication to harnessing AI for humanitarian purposes, [Employer hidden] seeks to mitigate the devastating impact of landmines, contributing to global efforts towards peace and security. Seed funding awarded in 2025 exemplifies the growing interest in scalable AI defence solutions, as [Employer hidden] seeks to expand its operations.