Senior DevOps Engineer – Job Description
Location: London, UK
Relocation and Sponsorship: Not provided
Employment Type: Full-time
Reports to: Head of Engineering
Purpose
Kybera is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to architect, lead, and scale the platform engineering and operational backbone of our solutions.
About the role
Reporting into the Head of Engineering, this is a senior individual-contributor role with a strong technical leadership remit across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, reliability, and platform security.
What you’ll do
- Define and maintain Kybera’s DevOps and platform engineering roadmap across infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, reliability and security.
- Design scalable platform architectures across cloud, on-premises, hybrid and customer-site environments.
- Establish reusable standards, deployment patterns and reference architectures across Kybera product lines.
- Build, maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines across multiple repositories, services and product components.
- Lead release engineering and deployment automation for Kybera products.
- Enable repeatable, secure and scalable deployments across development, test, staging, production and customer environments.
- Design and support customer-isolated, multi-site and multi-tenant deployment models where required.
- Implement observability, monitoring, alerting, SLOs and operational health practices for production and customer-facing systems.
- Lead incident response, post-incident reviews and continuous improvement of platform reliability and operational maturity.
- Embed security, safety, compliance, auditability and traceability requirements into infrastructure, release and deployment workflows.
Your profile
Essential experience
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform, or Infrastructure Engineering roles, with at least 2 years operating in a senior or lead capacity.
- Production-grade experience with AWS (and ideally one secondary cloud or on-premises environment).
- Proven experience designing CI/CD at scale (GitHub Actions or equivalent) across many repositories and product lines.
- Demonstrable experience operating safety-critical, mission-critical, or heavily regulated production systems.
- Excellent communication skills, able to engage executive, customer, partner, and regulator audiences.
Desirable experience
- Experience within autonomous systems, industrial automation, robotics, transportation, or other mission-critical infrastructure domains.
- Familiarity with ROS 2 build/release tooling and robotics software lifecycle management.
- Experience with multi-tenant SaaS platform design or customer-isolated deployment patterns.
What we offer
- The opportunity to join a business at an early yet pivotal stage of its growth journey in a key role shaping the future of autonomous navigation.
- A collaborative and innovative Engineering culture, working alongside bright and ambitious colleagues.
- A competitive package including base salary, private medical and dental insurance, a healthcare cash plan, employer pension contribution matching and other performance-based incentives.