DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

Full-Time 60000 - 80000 £ / year (est.) No working from home possible
Salient Group

At a Glance

  • Tasks: Build cutting-edge cloud infrastructure for AI and scientific experimentation.
  • Company: Exciting stealth AI company with top-tier backing and a small, talented team.
  • Benefits: Strong salary, meaningful equity, and flexible working arrangements.
  • Other info: Join a dynamic team with significant ownership and career growth opportunities.
  • Why this job: Shape the future of AI infrastructure and make a real impact on scientific discovery.
  • Qualifications: Experience in DevOps, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure; passion for solving complex problems.

The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.

  • Overview
  • Stealth AI Company | London | Strong base + meaningful equity

We're working with a well-funded stealth AI company building at the intersection of AI, science, and real-world experimentation.

They’re early, very ambitious, and backed by top-tier investors.

The team has high talent density, is small, technical, and moving quickly, now looking for a foundational Dev Ops Engineer to build the infrastructure that lets researchers and engineers move fast.

This is not a “maintain the existing stack” role.

You’ll be helping set the patterns from the ground up across cloud infrastructure, GPU compute, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, security, reproducibility, and internal tooling.

The work is high-impact because the infrastructure directly supports scientific discovery.

Every improvement in reliability, training speed, experiment orchestration, deployment, or researcher self-service helps the team learn faster and build better systems.

  • What you’ll work
  • Build and own cloud infrastructure across AWS/GCP.
  • Manage Kubernetes environments for AI workloads.
  • Support GPU compute environments for model training and inference.
  • Build CI/CD and Git Ops workflows that let the team ship safely and quickly.
  • Improve observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
  • Create reproducible research and production environments.
  • Implement security best practices across IAM, secrets, networking, and vulnerability management.
  • Build internal tools that allow researchers and engineers to self-serve infrastructure.
  • What we’re looking for
  • Strong Dev Ops, Platform Engineering, SRE, or Infrastructure background.
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform/Pulumi, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Comfortable working with Linux, networking, CI/CD, monitoring, and security.
  • Ideally experience with GPU workloads, AI infrastructure, ML platforms, MLOps, or research computing.
  • Strong bias for ownership able to build properly, but pragmatically, in an early-stage environment.
  • Curious, collaborative, self-driven, and excited by hard technical problems
  • Nice to have
  • Experience with NVIDIA GPUs, CUDA, v LLM, Triton, Ray, Slurm, MLflow, W&B, Airflow, Argo, or DVC.
  • Background in AI labs, deep tech, scientific computing, research infrastructure, or high-performance cloud platforms.
  • Experience building infrastructure from scratch in a startup or high-growth environment.
  • Why this is interesting
  • Stealth AI company with serious backing.
  • Foundational role with huge ownership.
  • Build the infrastructure for AI + real-world scientific experimentation.
  • Small, high-calibre team across AI, engineering, and science.
  • Very little legacy — you’ll help shape how things are built.
  • Strong compensation and meaningful equity.
  • London HQ, with flexibility for strong people across Europe / similar time zones.

If you’re a Dev Ops Engineer, Platform Engineer, SRE, ML Platform Engineer, AI Infrastructure Engineer, or GPU Infrastructure Engineer who wants to build something from the ground up, I’d love to chat.

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DevOps Engineer employer: Salient Group

Stealth AI Company is an exceptional employer for a DevOps Engineer, offering a unique opportunity to shape the infrastructure that supports groundbreaking scientific discovery. With a small, highly skilled team and a culture that values ownership and innovation, employees benefit from strong compensation packages, meaningful equity, and the chance to work in a dynamic environment that encourages collaboration and personal growth. Located in London, the company provides flexibility for talent across Europe, making it an attractive choice for those looking to make a significant impact in the AI and research sectors.

Salient Group

Contact Details:

Salient Group Recruitment Team

We think you need these skills to ace DevOps Engineer

DevOps
Platform Engineering
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Infrastructure Management
Kubernetes
Docker
Terraform