8 days ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Develop and manage cloud-based infrastructure on AWS and other cloud platforms.
- Create and maintain deployment architectures and continuous delivery pipelines.
- Design high-availability and fault-tolerant application solutions.
- Implement monitoring frameworks, dashboards, alerts, and escalation processes.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and management using Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Manage containerized applications and orchestrate deployments with Kubernetes.
- Apply security best practices across CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and microservices.
- Optimize performance and scalability through observability and proactive monitoring.
- Collaborate with development, client, and technical leadership teams to improve deployment workflows and deliver projects.
- Advise clients on cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, and system security.
- Analyze client requirements and support timely project execution.
- Work onsite in London four days per week and travel when required.
Requirements
- At least six years of commercial experience or significant experience delivering at a senior engineer level.
- Practical experience developing and delivering real-world solutions in an agile environment.
- Strong experience managing and automating cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Proficiency with infrastructure as code using Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration, ideally Kubernetes.
- Experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, ideally with GitHub Actions or Jenkins.
- Strong scripting and automation expertise, preferably with Python, Bash, and Linux.
- Experience with observability tools and monitoring frameworks.
- Understanding of security best practices across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and microservices.
- Financial services, trading, or market-data systems experience.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Professional proficiency in English.
Benefits
- Permanent full-time employment for candidates based in the UK.
- Four days per week onsite in London; required travel can be expensed.
- Annual company bonus linked to company performance.
- 25 days of annual leave plus public holidays, sick leave, marriage leave, and other leave.
- Workspace setup allowance of up to €1250 every two years, in addition to essential equipment.
- Training and development allowance subject to manager approval.
- Additional private healthcare.
- Pension matching up to 5%, income protection, and death-in-service insurance.
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About Nearform
Nearform is a privately held IT services firm headquartered in Waterford, Ireland, founded in 2011. It designs and builds custom software and AI-enabled solutions for large enterprises, spanning strategy, product design, data engineering, DevOps, and platform modernization. Its business is consulting and delivery services, with an open-source engineering focus, and clients have included Walmart and Starbucks.