Senior DevOps Engineer

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential sports technology organization seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join their London office. Our client operates at the intersection of performance analytics, video technology, and wearable data, serving elite-level professional sports organizations globally. This is an opportunity to architect and maintain cloud infrastructure that processes sensitive athlete performance data at scale.

Responsibilities

• Cloud & Platform Engineering: Own infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using tools such as Terraform and Ansible
• Observability & Reliability: Design, build and maintain logging, monitoring, alerting, and SLO/SLI frameworks to ensure system health and performance
• Software Delivery Pipelines: Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, safe, and repeatable software delivery
• Infrastructure Operations & Governance: Oversee the availability, scalability, and performance of cloud and on-premises infrastructure while ensuring alignment with corporate security standards and global regulatory compliance
• Cloud Security & Compliance: Ensure compliance with relevant frameworks including ISO 27001, SOC 2, and GDPR; implement best-practice cloud security controls
• Security Operations: Lead security-first approach, collaborate with Security and IT teams to ensure infrastructure is patched according to SLAs
• Application Security: Collaborate with security teams to embed security controls into CI/CD pipelines and platform services
• Architectural Roadmap & Vision: Define and execute the long-term technical roadmap for the global cloud platform, evaluating emerging technologies including Serverless, AI-driven operations, and containerization
• Technical Governance & Standards: Establish infrastructure decisions, create reusable Infrastructure as Code patterns that ensure consistency across all environments
• Strategic Security Integration: Architect and champion a "Shift-Left" security strategy, integrating automated security guardrails and compliance auditing into CI/CD pipelines

What We're Looking For

• Significant experience in DevOps, Site Reliability, Platform or Infrastructure Engineering, with tenure in a technical leadership role
• Deep expertise in the AWS cloud platform and associated security and compliance practices
• Strong background in infrastructure automation (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, and observability tooling
• Proven experience with large-scale platform re-design and architecture of new cloud infrastructure systems based on software and business requirements
• Solid understanding of AppSec principles, including integrating security into build and deploy pipelines
• Experience managing hybrid environments, including traditional data centers and on-premises services
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; ability to influence across engineering, security, and finance teams
• Experience with regulated industries such as healthcare or fintech is highly valued
• Familiarity with multiple compliance frameworks including SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS

How We Work With You

As Get A Job.ai's recruiting team, we act as your advocate throughout this process. When you apply through our platform at getajob.ai, one of our recruiters will screen your application and arrange an initial conversation to understand your background and career goals. If there's a strong match, we'll submit your profile to our client for consideration and guide you through their interview process. Please note that you should not contact the client directly—all communication will be coordinated through our talent team to ensure the best experience for everyone involved.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process with our recruiting team.

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