DevOps Engineer (B2B collaboration) - London

We're looking for an experienced DevOps engineer to join Space Inch and take up work with the Core team of one of our long-standing clients, a leading investment and asset management firm in the US. You'll work alongside Space Inch teammates and the client's own engineers, who together make up a large part of five combined teams spanning infrastructure, SRE, and various application teams that build on top of them.

Overview

The work sits at the intersection of DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering. Beyond keeping pipelines and clusters healthy, a big part of the job is treating the underlying infrastructure as a product: building the self-service tooling, reusable modules, and paved paths that let the application teams ship safely without reinventing deployment, observability, or security every time. Much of this work is greenfield, so there's real scope to shape how the platform looks for years to come rather than just maintaining what already exists.

If you like owning infrastructure that other engineers depend on, and want a seat in the architectural conversations that decide where it goes, we'd love to hear from you.

Our Mission, Vision, and Values

At Space Inch, we prioritize alignment with our clients and team, ensuring a deep understanding of their needs. We are committed to delivering exceptional work while supporting the personal and professional growth of our team members.

About Working At Space Inch

• Global Footprint: Our team is around 80 people, primarily based in Croatia, but also with members in South America, the EU, and the US; the product team mostly being in the US, and engineering in Croatia and Brazil.
• Remote-First: We are remote-first, but occasional travel may be required, e.g. for our annual company retreat, or meeting the client.
• Long-Term Vision: We work on end-to-end projects with a long-term vision.
• True Work-Life Balance: We strongly support work-life balance for our team members, even though we work in different time zones.

Requirements

• GitHub CI/CD, container registries, and upstream/downstream systems.
• Kubernetes across multiple environments and regions, including Helm and Flux (or Argo).
• Azure (Azure Cloud, DevOps, Artifacts, Container Registry) or a comparable Cloud Provider.
• Terraform and Ansible.

Experience with

• AI agents.
• Linux.
• Python or Bash.
• Docker.
• DataDog.
• Managing databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis).

Working arrangement

• Must be available for 10 days per month on-site visit to the client in central London (Soho), 2-3 days every week.
• Full-time availability (40 hours per week).
• Standard working hours with occasional adjustments to keep good overlap with the client, who works on US Eastern time (New York). Expect at least 3 hours of daily overlap.

Key responsibilities

• Build and maintain CI/CD across GitHub Actions, container registries, and the deployment pipelines the application teams rely on.
• Run and improve Kubernetes across multiple environments and regions, managing releases with Helm and Flux.
• Develop reusable Terraform and Ansible modules so infrastructure stays consistent, version-controlled, and easy for teams to adopt.
• Expand the self-service platform capabilities that let application teams provision, deploy, and monitor their own services within sensible guardrails.
• Strengthen observability and reliability with DataDog, and help define the SLOs, alerting, and on-call practices that keep services healthy.
• Support the ongoing migration to Azure, from architecture decisions through to rollout.
• Work closely with cloud service providers, Azure in particular, managing the relationship, capacity, and cost so the platform stays well-supported and the teams building on it get what they need.
• Integrate as a full member of the client's DevOps, infrastructure, and core engineering teams rather than an outside contributor.
• Take part in strategic and architectural discussions, and advocate for changes that improve how the wider engineering org builds and ships.

Qualities for success

• A strong grasp of building reliable Kubernetes pipelines and platforms.
• Creativity in problem-solving and in architecting complex migration work.
• Excellent communication, both for collaborating internally and for advocating change to the teams using your infrastructure.
• An ownership mentality: you take charge of tasks and have autonomy over how you implement them.

This role is right for you if you enjoy

• Deciding for yourself how to approach a problem.
• Work that rewards strategic thinking and a deep understanding of the whole system.
• Collaborating across teams and making a visible difference to how they deploy.

This role is not right for you if

• You prefer purely operational work that follows a fixed runbook with little room to change it.
• You're uncomfortable taking initiative or proposing new ideas.
• You avoid cross-team collaboration.

Benefits

• A real say in key architectural decisions, not just their implementation.
• Work inside a top investment firm on problems that will make you a stronger engineer and leader anywhere you go next.
• Room to grow with the DevOps, infrastructure, and core engineering team, which opens up further leadership and deeper technical opportunities.

Compensation

• Compensation: £9,000 - £12,000 per month for B2B collaboration, based on experience and skills.
• PTO: 23 days/year vacation and up to 15 days/year fully paid sick-leave.
• Health & Wellbeing: £45/month budget for sports/wellness + annual health check-up subsidized up to £175/year.
• Continuous Growth: An education budget specifically designed to fuel your learning and help you expand your knowledge base.

Space Inch is committed to providing an environment of equal employment opportunity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. This commitment extends to all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, compensation, benefits, and termination. Space Inch believes in treating all employees and applicants with respect and dignity, fostering a workplace where everyone has the opportunity to succeed.