DevOps Engineer in London

S-RM is recruiting a Senior DevOps Engineer to play a key role in the development and maintenance of products for our Corporate Intelligence team.

Who Are We

S-RM is a global intelligence and cyber security consultancy. Since 2005, we've helped companies, governments and private individuals solve some of their most complex challenges. We’ve built a culture that values our people, investing in wellbeing, learning, and ideas daily.

The Role

This role will be part of a larger software team supporting our Corporate Intelligence team in building complex intelligence software products.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure on AWS, supporting multiple product teams.
• Own infrastructure as code using Terraform, ensuring reproducible, version‑controlled, and well‑documented environments.
• Architect, implement, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines to support build, test, and deployment workflows.
• Collaborate closely with development teams to improve deployment reliability, speed, and automation.
• Own observability and monitoring practices, ensuring meaningful metrics, dashboards, logs, and alerts.
• Embed security best practices into infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and runtime environments.
• Keep up to date with DevOps, cloud, and AWS best practices, tooling, and emerging technologies.
• Take ownership of complex problems end‑to‑end, from design through to production support.

Qualifications

• Degree level education in a computer science, maths or related numerate subject, or equivalent practical experience.
• Proven experience as a Senior DevOps Engineer or similar role supporting multiple product or engineering teams.
• Strong hands‑on experience with AWS (e.g., EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, IAM, VPC, S3, OpenSearch, CloudWatch) in production environments.
• Extensive experience using Terraform to manage infrastructure as code, including module design and environment separation.
• Solid experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong observability and monitoring experience, including metrics, logs, alerts, and dashboards.
• Good understanding of Linux/Unix systems, networking fundamentals, and cloud security best practices.
• Experience with containerisation and orchestration (e.g., Docker, ECS, Kubernetes).
• Permission to work in UK by the start of employment.

Personal Skills

• Strong problem‑solving skills and ability to work independently in a small, agile team.
• Well‑organised with strong attention to detail, especially in automation and infrastructure changes.
• Delivery‑focused, balancing speed with reliability and long‑term maintainability.
• Proven ability to translate ideas into working features.
• Pragmatic evaluation of new technologies rather than trend‑hopping.
• Strong communication skills, capable of engaging with business stakeholders and contributing to technical discussions.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays (+1 day for every year of service up to a maximum of 30 days).
• Hybrid working and flexible working hours.
• Matching pension contribution up to 7% (up to a maximum of 14% combined), with financial education.
• Life insurance 4× annual salary.
• Parental support: fertility treatment leave – 5 days per cycle; maternity leave – 26 weeks full pay + 13 weeks half pay; paternity leave – 6 weeks full pay.
• Health and medical benefits: private dental and medical insurance (taxable benefit) for you and your family; virtual GP for you and your household; gym discounts for you and partner; EAP programme; free access to Headspace mindfulness app.

Location

The role will be based at our London office (remote).

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

We nurture a culture of equality, diversity and inclusion and are dedicated to developing a workforce that displays a variety of talents, experiences and perspectives.