Deliveroo

Senior DevOps Engineer

Deliveroo
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2 months ago
London, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

  • Own complex infrastructure initiatives across Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, networking, and Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks.
  • Design, deploy, and operate secure, scalable systems in AWS.
  • Build and maintain self-service tooling, automation, provisioning frameworks, and Infrastructure-as-Code used by engineering teams.
  • Plan technical improvements to the compute and cloud platform using data and success metrics.
  • Document technical decisions, dependencies, estimates, and infrastructure interactions.
  • Support engineering teams through code and design reviews, technical guidance, guides, playbooks, and internal tech talks.
  • Participate in on-call rotations, respond to infrastructure incidents, lead root cause analysis, and drive mitigation and follow-through.
  • Drive reliability, operational readiness, alerting, dashboards, runbooks, and developer productivity objectives.
  • Mentor engineers, provide feedback, support hiring and interviews, and collaborate on shared infrastructure standards and roadmaps across Wolt, Deliveroo, and DoorDash.

Requirements

  • Track record of owning complex technical initiatives end-to-end and contributing to architecture-level decisions.
  • Deep hands-on production experience operating Kubernetes and container orchestration, including scaling, upgrades, and multi-tenancy.
  • Strong experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS, including networking, IAM, account structuring, and cost management.
  • Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code, preferably Terraform, and with building provisioning or automation frameworks.
  • Software engineering proficiency in Go, Python, or a similar language for internal tooling and automation.
  • Knowledge of Kafka, gRPC, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, and CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, with the ability to evaluate trade-offs.
  • Understanding of SRE principles, incident response, fault-tolerant architecture, and capacity planning.
  • Experience unblocking and mentoring engineers through code reviews, design reviews, knowledge sharing, or best-practice initiatives.
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills.
  • Preferred: experience with Argo CD, Flux, progressive delivery, service mesh technologies, multi-cluster or multi-region Kubernetes, GCP compute and networking, FinOps, multi-organization infrastructure unification, or open-source infrastructure and platform engineering projects in the CNCF ecosystem.

Benefits

  • Healthcare, well-being, parental leave, pensions, and generous annual leave allowances, including time off to support a charitable cause; benefits vary by country.
  • Workplace and benefits details are country-specific and available from the recruiter.

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Deliveroo

About Deliveroo

10,000+ employees

Deliveroo builds a consumer marketplace and logistics platform for on‑demand restaurant and grocery delivery, connecting customers, riders, and merchants. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in London, it operates across nine markets including the UK, France, Italy, Ireland, Qatar, Singapore, the UAE, and Kuwait; the company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is part of DoorDash. Revenue comes from order commissions, delivery fees, and services such as advertising and the Deliveroo Plus subscription.

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