Senior DevOps Engineer

Foodics

14d • Remote

About The Position

We're hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead significant improvements across the reliability, operability, and delivery of our platform. You'll work across the full lifecycle - from understanding where our engineering teams are feeling friction today, through designing pragmatic infrastructure and deployment improvements, to shipping them safely and supporting them in production. You'll be working on a containerised platform running in Kubernetes, with Google Cloud-hosted services, Cloud SQL-backed applications, Redis, RabbitMQ, and a CI/CD flow built around Docker, Jenkins, and our deployment tooling. The challenges are real, the autonomy is high, and the team is small enough that your decisions matter.

Requirements

• Kubernetes depth: Comfortable operating production Kubernetes environments and improving how services are deployed, configured, and run day-to-day.
• Cloud platform experience: Strong hands-on experience with a major cloud provider - ideally GCP - including networking, IAM, managed services, and the trade-offs between building and buying.
• CI/CD and release engineering: You've built or significantly improved delivery pipelines and understand how to balance speed with safety, traceability, and roll back confidence.
• Containers and Linux fundamentals: Comfortable debugging containerized workloads, understanding what is happening at the process/network/filesystem level, and getting to root cause without guesswork.
• Observability and incident handling: You know what good operational visibility looks like and can improve logging, metrics, alerting, and incident response in practical ways.
• Automation instinct: Strong scripting and automation skills (Bash, Python, or similar) with the instinct to remove repetitive manual work rather than normalize it.
• Security and secrets awareness: You take a thoughtful approach to access, credentials, service boundaries, and production change risk.
• Engineering partnership: Can work well with software engineers and technical leaders to refine operational needs, push back constructively, and improve the platform without becoming a ticket firewall.
• AI-assisted development: You use modern AI tooling (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot or similar) to accelerate investigation, automation, and delivery - and you have a healthy skepticism of its output. You don't automate your judgment away.
• Communication and judgment: Strong problem-solving, attention to detail, and the ability to explain trade-offs clearly to both engineers and non-engineers.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting PHP/Symfony application estates or similar service-oriented web platforms.
• Experience with Cloud SQL / MySQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, or similar managed data and messaging components.
• Background working across a mixed estate of legacy and modern services, where incremental improvement matters more than greenfield purity.
• Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform or similar).
• Cost optimisation, capacity planning, or performance tuning experience in a production cloud environment.
• Experience improving internal developer platforms, golden paths, or self-service tooling for engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve the reliability, scalability, and day-to-day operability of our production platform.
• Design and evolve deployment workflows that make shipping safer, faster, and more predictable for engineering teams.
• Improve our Kubernetes workloads and surrounding runtime concerns - configuration, secrets handling, resource usage, resilience, and environment consistency.
• Raise the bar for observability: make failures easier to detect, debug, and learn from through pragmatic monitoring, alerting, and instrumentation.
• Partner closely with application engineers to improve developer experience, reduce toil, and remove infrastructure bottlenecks that slow delivery down.
• Operate with autonomy: identify operational risks, propose sensible improvements, and follow through without needing to be managed.

Benefits

• Curated career progression planning with formal yearly reviews and informal check-ins along the way.
• Encouragement to grow into a Feature Development Lead.
• A competitive salary.
• Ample time to learn new concepts - including paid development and business-related conferences.
• Fully remote working, no commuting expenses.
• Flexible work hours.
• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays), with an additional day per year of service.
• Regular all-company socials and quarterly team socials.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed