DevOps / SRE Engineer

Who you are

• Proven experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles
• Strong hands-on experience running Kubernetes in production
• Experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms
• Solid experience with Terraform and IaC automation
• Experience participating in or managing production incidents and on-call
• Strong grasp of monitoring, alerting, and observability principles
• Ability to diagnose and fix complex distributed systems issues
• Demonstrated use of GenAI tools (ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Claude) in engineering workflows
• Excellent communication and calmness under pressure
• A passion for automation and reducing toil
• Experience with Grafana Cloud, IRM or other incident management tools
• Familiarity with Argo Workflows / ArgoCD
• Experience defining SLIs/SLOs at scale
• Background in Platform Engineering
• Experience improving or redesigning incident management processes

What the job involves

• Design, build and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure
• Manage and enhance our Kubernetes (EKS) platform to support reliable, modern applications
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Helm
• Improve and support CI/CD pipelines using Argo Workflows, ArgoCD and GitHub Actions
• Lead and participate in incident response, including on-call activities and major incident coordination
• Drive high-quality monitoring, alerting and observability across metrics, logs and traces
• Conduct and support blameless post-incident reviews, ensuring follow-up actions are delivered
• Define and implement SLIs/SLOs to improve service reliability and operational excellence
• Collaborate with engineering teams to embed best practices and improve developer experience
• Contribute to automation, tooling, and continuous improvements that reduce toil and increase platform resilience

Benefits

• Share Options: Our people drive our success. We reward that hard work with ownership in the company.
• Relax and Recharge: 26 days of paid leave each year to do whatever it is that recharges your batteries.
• Bumper Flex: We all work in different ways. Bumper Flex brings you the best of both worlds, home & office.
• Annual Retreat: Remote working is fab. But nothing beats getting to know each other in person.
• Bumper Allowance: £250 a year to spend on your personal wellbeing and development, simple as that!
• Family Leave: 4 months' paid leave for primary carers & 1 month for secondary carers. Your family comes first.
• Colleague Discount: Discount on Bumper loans for you, your friends, and family - Boom!
• Colleague Assistance Programme: 24/7 support for your wellbeing
• Bumper Foundation: We're carbon neutral & offer paid leave each year to give back, in whatever way you choose.