At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and maintain cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and internal tooling for engineering teams.
- Company: Innovative tech company improving positioning solutions for billions worldwide.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible working, generous leave, and private healthcare.
- Other info: Diverse and inclusive workplace with excellent career growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Join a team making a real impact on location technologies and enhance your skills.
- Qualifications: Strong Linux knowledge, DevOps experience, and understanding of infrastructure-as-code.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 80000 £ per year.
Location: Cambridge
Way of Working: Office based or Hybrid (attend office 1-2 days per week)
Hours of work: 40 hours per week
Length: Full-time / Permanent
Salary: £70,000 - £80,000 per annum (DOE)
Our Purpose
To improve every positioning solution. We develop groundbreaking technology that boosts the accuracy, reliability and security of radio receivers. Chipset manufacturers and Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) partner with us to enhance the capability of their devices, helping to improve the lives of billions of people who rely on location technologies.
The Opportunity
We're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Internal Infrastructure & Tooling team. You will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the platforms and tooling that our engineering teams rely on every day.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS and on premises hardware, ensuring reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
- Own and evolve our CI/CD pipelines, enabling engineering teams to develop their products with confidence.
- Manage and harden Linux-based systems across our internal estate.
- Develop internal tooling and automation to improve developer experience and operational efficiency.
- Collaborate with security stakeholders to embed best practices into infrastructure and deployment workflows.
- Contribute to incident response and post-incident reviews.
- Mentor other engineers and lead by example for infrastructure standards across the organization.
Experience
Essential:
- Strong knowledge of Linux administration, networking, and troubleshooting in production environments.
- Several years of experience in a DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering role.
- A solid understanding of infrastructure-as-code principles and modern deployment practices.
Desirable:
- Experience writing and managing Terraform modules and state at scale.
- Comfortable scripting and building tooling in Python.
- Experience designing and maintaining pipelines in GitLab CI/CD.
- Familiarity with infrastructure security practices such as secrets management, vulnerability scanning.
- Experience with containerisation and orchestration (Docker).
- Familiarity with observability tooling (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
Benefits
- 8% employer-contribution pension scheme
- Flexible working: in-hub (3+ days per week) or hybrid (1–2 days per week)
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
- Additional annual leave after 3 years
- Enhanced special leave
- Extra annual leave at the end of December
- Company Options Scheme (determined by Executive Team)
- Up to £5000 recommend a friend scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Private Healthcare - Vitality Health (after successful completion of probation)
- In-hub office lunches on us
- Paid professional memberships
- Free parking onsite
Equal Opportunities
We are an equal opportunities employer. We believe in diversity, equity and inclusion and welcome candidates from all backgrounds.
Senior DevOps Engineer employer: Focal Point Positioning
As a Senior DevOps Engineer at our innovative company in Cambridge, you'll be part of a dynamic team dedicated to enhancing positioning solutions that impact billions globally. We offer a supportive work culture with flexible working options, competitive salary, and numerous benefits including a generous pension scheme, private healthcare, and opportunities for professional growth, all while fostering an inclusive environment that values diversity.
