DevOps Engineer

You will write infrastructure as code, own pipelines, and work directly with product engineers to make shipping software fast, safe and secure. You will be trusted to pick up work without being told, diagnose incidents and create solutions that fit the problem.

Responsibilities

Infrastructure and automation

Builds and maintains our AWS infrastructure as code, treating infrastructure with the same care as application code — reviewed, tested and versioned.

Optimise our platform and containerised workloads on ECS and Fargate, including scaling, cost and service health.

Automates repeat work rather than absorbing it, removing toil from the team instead of quietly living with it.

Owns and improves our CircleCI and GitHub Actions pipelines so builds, tests and deployments are quick and predictable.

Writes and maintains runbooks so operational knowledge sits with the team rather than with one person.

Reliability and observability

Set up and tune monitoring and alerting in New Relic so problems are spotted before customers raise them, and so alerts mean something when they fire.

Takes part in incident response, helps establish root cause, and sees follow-up fixes through to completion rather than leaving them on a list.

Contributes to backup, resilience and disaster recovery work, including testing that recovery actually works.

Security and compliance

Applies security fundamentals day to day: least privilege IAM, secrets handling, patching, network segmentation and certificate management.

Supports evidence gathering and control work for our security and compliance obligations.

Ways of working

Works closely with product engineering, support and security so platform decisions reflect real needs rather than assumptions.

Is collaborative by default, creating solutions together or seeking feedback to learn and validate.

Skills

Solid hands-on experience with core AWS services, and comfortable designing cloud native systems built on containers, serverless components and automation

Able to read, write and maintain Go, used here mainly for internal tooling

Practical experience building and maintaining infrastructure as code with

Terraform or Pulumi (Pulumi preferred)

Confident with Git workflows, pull request reviews and GitHub Actions for CI/CD

Experience configuring and integrating off-the-shelf vendor products as well as internally built tools

A good grasp of core security fundamentals, including IAM and least privilege, secrets management, networking basics (VPC, DNS, TLS, load balancing) and vulnerability management

Comfortable troubleshooting Linux and containerised workloads, and scripting your way out of repetitive tasks

Able to manage your own workload, prioritise sensibly, and keep progress visible without being chased

Clear communicator, able to explain technical decisions or challenges to non-technical people

Beneficial but not essential

Some Node.js or Ruby experience

Cloudflare (DNS, WAF, CDN)

Octopus Deploy

Experience working within SOC 2 or ISO 27001 controls

Observability tooling such as New Relic, Datadog or similar

Experience with incident management tooling and blameless post-incident reviews

At Zuno, we believe diverse perspectives make us better at what we do. We’re committed to fostering an inclusive, welcoming environment where everyone—regardless of background, identity, or experience—feels valued and supported.

If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. Your unique perspective could be exactly what we need to grow and thrive.

Benefits

30 days annual leave + bank holidays

Private Medical Cover with Aviva *

4x salary Death in Service cover with Zurich *

Paid maternity & paternity pay after a year of service

Salary sacrifice pension matched up to 6% *

Flexible working times and location

Please note: We’re unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role, so candidates must already have the right to work in the UK.

* After probationary period