Senior DevOps Engineer

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Hiring Remotely in UK
Remote
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Software • Analytics • Automation
The Role
Design, build, and operate scalable GCP and Kubernetes cloud platforms. Automate infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD, deployments, customer onboarding, monitoring, security, failover, and platform operations. Collaborate with engineering, QA, product, and architecture teams to improve reliability and productivity. Lead capacity planning, infrastructure cost optimization, troubleshooting, and strategic platform design for high-throughput microservices and big-data systems.
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About us
Xiatech is the pioneer of Xfuze, the world’s first AI-powered composable Integration, Data Management, Analytics and Orchestration Platform that innovatively connects systems, creates a single view of data and delivers actionable insights in one cloud-native, SaaS solution.  Business, technology and data teams use Xfuze to shorten time-to-insights, accelerate digital transformation, and extend the value of their legacy technology investments.

We’re a culture-first organisation and put our people at the forefront of everything we do. We believe that a great working environment leads to a happy and productive team which is why we offer our staff the flexibility to work remotely or from our beautiful office in Fitzrovia, Central London.
The Role
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will combine aspects of systems design and administration at scale in the Cloud. You will work closely with our software engineers to assist in developing infrastructure orchestration, and continuous integration systems. Adding automation to support both infrastructure and code deployment, built using cloud native principles, with scalability baked in.
As a crucial and influential member of the Xiatech platform team the Senior DevOps Engineer will report to the Lead DevOps Engineer and work with the Director Of Product and Architecture, Product Owners, Product Architects and Principal Engineers to set, design and build the  strategic vision for the underlying Cloud Infrastructure and Operational Capabilities of the Xfuze Platform.
With a natural knack of diagnosing problems and identifying solutions, you will be well versed in creating resilient systems with builtin failover safety.
This is a fantastic opportunity for a driven individual looking for a role which will have a genuine impact from day one in a rapidly expanding organisation.
Key Responsibilities
Platform engineering & automation
  • Building and configuring new development tools and infrastructure
  • Ensure that all critical platform processes from provisioning to scale out maintain and continuously improve to a high level of automation avoiding reactive problem solving. Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes
  • Identifying technical problems and developing software updates and ‘fixes’
  • Guide the team in the provision of best in class Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) capability and practices as it relates to the platform
  • Help define and implement the onboarding process for new customers to the platform from the platform infrastructure and automation perspective to create a seamless experience
  • Testing and examining code written by others and analysing results
Security
  • Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
  • Ensure the platform maintains comprehensive security (Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability) requirements in accordance with the CISO and CDO.
  • Participate hands-on in the implementation of the roadmap items marshalling these items to production and guiding team members where required.
Working with the developers, QA and other team members
  • Working with software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
  • Understand the needs of Engineers and Test Teams in relation to the platform roadmap priorities to ensure an infrastructure strategy that continuously compounds engineering productivity and effectiveness.
Sizing, forecasting and Finops
  • Define strong financial control capabilities for platform instances and contribute to price performance optimisation of infrastructure and software
  • Lead the right sizing, capacity planning and capacity forecasting efforts for the platform

Your Knowledge & Experience
Essential
  • The Senior DevOps Engineer will have at least 5+ years experience designing and operating production GCP Public Cloud and Kubernetes based platforms and a vast experience with cloud native architectures and tools. Broad use of AWS services, serverless (Lambda, ECS, ApiGateWay), network Infrastructure, and service monitoring.
  • Experience with Google Cloud Platform (VPC, PSC, GKE, Cloud Armour)
  • Strong Kubernetes and Docker experience
  • Proven experience leading the strategic technical design and operational service design of a mission critical big data or microservices platform. Must have a strong background of leading the design and build of externally facing  infrastructure in Cloud services particularly GCP.
  • Experience in high throughput distributed systems & Microservices,  ideally  real-time event processing systems at scale; such as Pulsar, Kafka, RedPanda.
  • Must have knowledge and experience automatically provisioning and supporting multiple big data technologies; such as MongoDB, DataBricks, Big Query, Hadoop, Spark, Trino, DataLakes/Lakehouse Architectures.
  • Infrastructure management  with Terraform
  • Experience with Github or any other source control
  • Knowledge of Scripting/Coding languages - Go, Bash, Python
  • Confident working with Yaml and Json files
  • Linux knowledge
  • Any CI/CD tool (CircleCI, ArgoCD Preferred)
  • Systems integration across Cloud providers
  • Experience with AWS databases, RDS, DynamoDB, DocumentDB - but not necessarily a DBA
  • Excellent teamwork and communication skills
  • Strong problem-solving skills
  • Good attention to detail
  • Excellent organisational and time management skills, and the ability to work on multiple projects at the same time
  • Experience of working with Agile teams, and principles
  • Excellent diagnostic and analytical troubleshooting skill
Desirable 
  • Ideally some experience with security and ISO27001

Your Personality
  • Energetic & driven
  • Innovative
  • Resilient
  • Insightful
  • Creative
  • Problem solver
  • Sound judgement
  • Analytical
  • Capacity to learn

If you would like the opportunity to join an established UK-based Software as a Service organisation who believe in using the latest leading-edge technology to drive business growth, please enquire now by emailing [email protected]  
If you receive an offer of employment, this will be conditional upon satisfactory completion of a right to work & identity check, a reference check and a basic criminal record check for any unspent convictions.
Xiatech is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind.

Skills Required

  • At least 5 years of experience designing and operating production GCP public cloud and Kubernetes platforms.
  • Experience with GCP services including VPC, Private Service Connect, GKE, and Cloud Armor.
  • Strong Kubernetes and Docker experience.
  • Experience designing and operating mission-critical big-data or microservices platforms and externally facing cloud infrastructure.
  • Experience with high-throughput distributed systems, microservices, and preferably real-time event-processing systems such as Pulsar, Kafka, or Redpanda.
  • Experience provisioning and supporting technologies including MongoDB, Databricks, BigQuery, Hadoop, Spark, Trino, and data lake or lakehouse architectures.
  • Infrastructure management experience with Terraform.
  • Experience with GitHub or another source-control system.
  • Knowledge of Go, Bash, and Python.
  • Confidence working with YAML and JSON files.
  • Linux knowledge.
  • Experience with at least one CI/CD tool; CircleCI or Argo CD preferred.
  • Experience integrating systems across cloud providers.
  • Experience with AWS databases including RDS, DynamoDB, or DocumentDB.
  • Excellent teamwork, communication, problem-solving, organization, time management, diagnostic, and analytical troubleshooting skills.
  • Experience working with Agile teams and Agile principles.
  • Experience with security and ISO 27001.
  • Right-to-work and identity check, reference check, and basic criminal record check upon offer.
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The Company
96 Employees
Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

Xiatech is a technology company that helps organisations accelerate business transformation through Xfuze, its AI-powered composable platform. The platform integrates systems, unifies and governs data, enables real-time orchestration, delivers analytics and supports Agentic AI deployment. Xiatech serves business and technology leaders seeking faster integration, improved data-driven decision-making, lower technology costs and scalable innovation across complex organisational environments in demanding, changing markets.

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