7 hours ago
Remote, United Kingdom or London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Improve metrics, logs, traces, and alerts across the Django API, data pipelines, and warehouse.
- Build fast, dependable GitLab CI/CD pipelines with merge-review and deployment controls.
- Remove direct-to-production paths and establish reliable release controls and weekly releases.
- Make GCP spending visible by workload and product area and reduce unnecessary cloud costs.
- Improve Terraform and Kubernetes infrastructure so environments are reproducible, secure, and documented.
- Add failure detection, freshness checks, replay paths, and ownership across Datastream, Pub/Sub, dbt, and BigQuery.
- Help shape incident-management and on-call practices and convert recurring failures into automated safeguards.
Requirements
- Strong experience running production services on GCP.
- Practical experience operating and improving Kubernetes and Terraform infrastructure.
- Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in GitLab or a similar platform.
- Evidence of instrumenting production systems and improving metrics, logging, tracing, or alerting.
- Experience attributing cloud spend, identifying waste, and making cost-performance trade-offs.
- Experience operating data pipelines, including streaming ingestion, warehouse loads, or dbt transformations.
- Ability to challenge unsafe changes and define the steps required before deployment.
- Practical experience using AI coding tools such as Cursor or Claude, including providing context and verifying infrastructure changes.
- Ability to assess imperfect systems, prioritize improvements, and carry changes through production.
- Enough Python experience to investigate or fix Django application issues.
- Security or compliance experience in an enterprise SaaS environment is a plus.
- Experience designing incident-management or on-call processes is a plus.
- BigQuery cost and performance tuning experience is a plus.
Benefits
- Remote work with hybrid opportunities and clusters in London and Amsterdam.
- Must be based in the UK or the Netherlands.
- Flexible work arrangements and inclusive workplace experiences.
- Opportunity to work on a global, diverse team at IFS.
Tech Stack
Apache SupersetdbtDjangoGitLab CI/CDGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesNode.jsPythonReactTerraformTypeScript
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About IFS
IFS builds IFS Cloud, an enterprise suite covering ERP, EAM, FSM, SCM, and project/service management for manufacturers and asset‑intensive organizations. Its business model centers on software subscriptions and services for cloud and hybrid deployments, plus industry-specific modules and consulting. Founded in 1983 and headquartered in Linköping, Sweden, the company is privately held under EQT ownership and operates globally across industrial and service-focused markets.