DevOps Engineer

TL;DR: Kharon is seeking a full-time DevOps Engineer based in London, UK. Location: London, UK Annual Remuneration: £90,000–£105,000 and discretionary annual bonus Pay Frequency: Monthly Probationary Period: 180 days Work Arrangement: Hybrid, 3 days per week Lead the design and evolution of cloud infrastructure supporting Kharon's high-performance SaaS applications, with a focus on API-driven, infrastructure-as-code control planes Build and continuously improve automation for infrastructure provisioning, developer tooling, and internal workflows to increase engineering velocity Monitor system health and capacity, proactively identifying limitations and alerting on potential production issues to uphold SLA commitments Embed security-first principles into infrastructure architecture, automation design, and day-to-day operations Design and maintain systems for operational administration, backup, disaster recovery, and performance/security monitoring Collaborate cross-functionally as a hands-on contributor — giving and receiving feedback openly, and adapting quickly to new tools and technologies 5+ years of experience in a DevOps, Platform, or Infrastructure Engineering role Strong software development background, with deep expertise in at least one programming language Hands-on experience with Docker and container orchestration (Kubernetes preferred) Experience with a major cloud provider (AWS preferred) Experience with Infrastructure as Code and cloud automation tooling (OpenTofu preferred) Experience building fully automated CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions and ArgoCD preferred) Solid understanding of monitoring, networking, and security, with depth in at least one area Strong command of Linux systems Bonus Points: Experience managing high-availability, multi-AZ, and multi-region environments Experience architecting and building internal developer tooling Experience building observability tooling, dashboards, and alerting for application performance and stability Experience with distributed systems or microservice architecture