Senior DevOps Engineer – IFS Logistics

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Develop observability for the Django API, data pipelines, and data warehouse utilizing metrics, logs, traces, and alerts.

• Enhance GitLab CI/CD pipelines by implementing review and deployment controls.

• Eliminate direct-to-production pathways and refine release management controls.

• Create a dependable weekly release schedule.

• Make GCP expenditure transparent by workload and product area while minimizing waste.

• Upgrade Terraform and Kubernetes infrastructure to ensure reproducibility, security, and thorough documentation.

• Bolster reliability across Datastream, Pub/Sub, dbt, and BigQuery pipelines.

• Introduce failure detection, freshness checks, replay paths, and clear ownership responsibilities.

• Contribute to the development of incident management and on-call protocols.

• Transform recurring failures into automated checks and preventive measures.

• Collaborate with application and data engineers while supporting the production platform.

• Take charge of major DevOps workstreams and implement enhancements in production.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience managing production services on GCP.

• Hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes and Terraform, including operating and refining infrastructure.

• Proven experience in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in GitLab or comparable platforms.

• Background in instrumenting real systems and enhancing metrics, logging, tracing, or alerting.

• Experience in attributing cloud spending, identifying waste, and making informed trade-offs.

• Familiarity with operating data pipelines, including streaming ingestion, warehouse loads, dbt transformations, or similar workflows.

• Capability to challenge unsafe modifications and articulate necessary pre-release actions.

• Practical experience with AI coding tools such as Cursor or Claude, including providing context and verifying infrastructure changes.

• Ability to evaluate imperfect systems, prioritize enhancements, and implement them in production.

• Sufficient Python proficiency to investigate or resolve issues in a Django application.

• Security or compliance experience in an enterprise SaaS setting (preferred).

• Experience in designing incident management or on-call processes (preferred).

• Familiarity with BigQuery cost and performance optimization (preferred).

• Must reside in the UK or the Netherlands.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunities for remote work.

• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements.

• An inclusive workplace environment.

• A sustainability-focused workplace.

• Chance to work in a global, diverse setting.

• Access to AI tools for development, including Cursor and Claude.