Principal DevOps Engineer in London

Responsibilities

• Work with our Engineers as your customers - doing what you can to enable the wider Technology team to focus on core product development.
• Design, propose and implement improvements to our deployment pipelines, environment provisioning, and benchmarking solutions, making the installation and configuration of Data X-Ray easier and more flexible for both clients and internal use.
• Work together with Customer Success engineers and Solution Architects to ensure we are meeting our client’s needs.
• Ensure our applications are using industry best practices in deployment, logging, monitoring, and security.
• Help to protect the data rights of millions of our client’s customers.

Tech Stack

• GitHub Actions
• Gradle
• Blacksmith.sh
• Docker / container image builds
• Ansible
• Hetzner, GCP and Azure
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• SonarCloud
• Chainguard (distroless/FIPS base images)
• Elasticsearch (including FIPS-hardened variant)
• MySQL / Liquibase
• MongoDB
• RabbitMQ
• Java
• Go
• Python
• RHEL

Benefits

• 25 days paid holiday, unlimited unpaid over those 25 days.
• Equity options.
• Fully remote culture (office space in London).
• US Health Insurance (UK Health Insurance in flight).

Candidate Profile

• Communicative and resourceful about solving problems.
• AI forward thinking. We’re willing to experiment, and pragmatically adopting AI into our workflows where it makes sense.
• Trustworthy.
• Self‑driven and able to work towards goals.
• Client focused – both to our clients, and our internal team representing a client base to this role.
• Willing to work remotely and ideally in a timezone that overlaps with London for ~4 hours a day.
• Enthusiastic to become a part of a growing team and people‑focused culture.
• Pragmatic – we’re a small company and prioritisation based on impact and future proofing is always challenging.

Qualifications

• On‑the‑job experience with container and deployment tools, such as Docker, Podman, Ansible, or other IAC tools.
• Experience of at least one of the major cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP, Hetzner).
• Thorough understanding of networking and security fundamentals (e.g., configuring load balancers, issuing certificates, configuring VPC).
• Knowledge of best practices for on‑premise deployment and operations (blue/green deployment, database recovery management, monitoring tools and logging).