Senior Software Engineer (Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps)
Location: London (Three days in office, two days wfh)
Salary: £80,000 to £100,000 + Bonus
My client is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead our cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices within the Developers' Team. They are primarily a Professional Services firm serving customers in the Blockchain space, where technology enables greater efficiency and delivers solutions that arent feasible otherwise.
While our team builds data pipelines and reporting tools that enable accountancy teams to work efficiently, this role spans cloud infrastructure, data platform engineering, and AI tooling. You'll manage our Snowflake environment and contribute to our Claude Enterprise observability alongside your core AWS and DevOps responsibilities. Beyond keeping systems running, we expect you to identify improvements, take ownership of them, and actively upskill colleagues, raising the teams collective capability as we grow
Key Responsibilities
Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps (Primary Focus)
Own and manage our AWS infrastructure, acting as the team's DevOps expert
Be one of the leaders in the migration toward microservices and ephemeral architecture
Lead in infrastructure as code in sync with our Senior colleagues
Establish and maintain CI/CD pipelines for the team's data and application projects, in particular for stg/prod
Lead the implementation of monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure reliability in our solutions
Collaborate in the management and optimisation of our observability dashboards, ensuring platform health is visible and actionable across the team
Take ownership of our Snowflake environment: access controls, cost governance, performance, and data organisation
Collaborate in the management and governance of Claude Enterprise, including usage policies, integrations, and secure usage to the firm
Manage cloud security, IAM policies, and compliance requirements
Provide infrastructure support and guidance to team members working on data pipelines and applications
Troubleshoot infrastructure and deployment issues
Team Leadership & Mentorship
Mentor other developers on DevOps practices, cloud architecture, infrastructure concepts, and explore Ops AI tooling. Do it jointly with other senior members and with a genuine investment in colleagues growth
Support and encourage team members in deploying and managing their data pipelines and applications
Conduct code and infrastructure reviews
Develop and share best practices for cloud-native development
Foster a collaborative learning environment within the team
Contribute to technical documentation
Proactively identify improvements to tooling, processes, and platform quality. Propose them clearly and take ownership through to delivery
Collaboration & Technical Enablement
Enable the team to build and deploy data pipelines efficiently by providing templates and guidance on infrastructure
Work with colleagues to understand their infrastructure needs and provide solutions
Translate infrastructure requirements into scalable, maintainable solutions
Communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Collaborate with accountancy teams to ensure data platform reliability and performance
Technical
5+ years of software engineering experience with a significant cloud infrastructure focus
Understanding of networking, security, and cloud best practices
Hands-on experience with AWS services
Experience with AI and Snowflake
Proficiency with infrastructure as code tools
Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar)
Solid understanding of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS)
Experience with monitoring and observability tools (CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus, or similar)
Proficiency in bash
Experience supporting development teams with infrastructure and deployment needs
Knowledge of microservices architecture and serverless patterns
Leadership
Experience working in teams outside the realm of Software Engineering
Demonstrated experience mentoring or managing junior Engineers
Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences
Ability to provide clear technical guidance and support
Pragmatic approach to balancing technical delivery with business needs
Required Skills & Experience
Technical
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with a significant cloud infrastructure focus
- Understanding of networking, security, and cloud best practices
- Hands-on experience with AWS services
- Proficiency with infrastructure as code tools
- Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar)
- Solid understanding of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS)
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools (CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus, or similar)
- Hands-on experience managing Snowflake: warehouses, RBAC, cost controls, and query performance
- Proficiency in bash
- Experience supporting development teams with infrastructure and deployment needs
- Knowledge of microservices architecture and serverless patterns
Leadership
- Experience working in teams outside the realm of Software Engineering
- Demonstrated experience mentoring or managing mid-level Engineers
- Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences
- Ability to provide clear technical guidance and support
- Pragmatic approach to balancing technical delivery with business needs
Desirable
- Python experience for infrastructure automation and tooling
- Familiarity with data pipeline infrastructure (supporting ETL workloads, data warehousing) and experience with Snowflake or a comparable cloud data warehouse
- Experience with data governance and compliance requirements
- Cloud cost and resource utilisation optimisation
- Experience migrating from monolithic to microservice architectures
- Experience deploying or governing enterprise AI tooling (Claude Enterprise, Copilot, or similar), particularly around secure rollout, usage policies, and MCP integrations
What We Offer
Opportunity to shape and own the technical infrastructure
Small, collaborative team environment where your expertise will have a direct impact
Opportunity to create and develop solutions that are new, be impactful
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Contact Details:
Permax Recruitment Limited Recruitment Team
