11 hours ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Improve metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and observability 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 safer, predictable weekly release processes.
- Manage and reduce GCP cloud costs by attributing spend to workloads and product areas.
- Improve Terraform and Kubernetes infrastructure so environments are reproducible, secure, and documented.
- Strengthen Datastream, Pub/Sub, dbt, and BigQuery pipeline reliability through failure detection, freshness checks, replay paths, and clear ownership.
- Help shape incident-management and on-call practices and automate safeguards for recurring failures.
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 a real system and improving metrics, logging, tracing, or alerting.
- Experience attributing cloud spend, identifying waste, and making engineering trade-offs.
- Experience operating data pipelines, including streaming ingestion, warehouse loads, dbt transformations, or similar workflows.
- Ability to challenge unsafe changes, prioritize improvements in imperfect systems, and carry work through to production.
- Practical experience with AI coding tools such as Cursor or Claude, including providing context and verifying infrastructure changes.
- Nice-to-have: Python experience for investigating or fixing Django issues.
- Nice-to-have: security or compliance experience in enterprise SaaS, incident-management or on-call process design, and BigQuery cost or performance tuning.
Benefits
- Remote work with flexibility and hybrid opportunities; candidates must be based in the UK or the Netherlands.
- The team has clusters in London and Amsterdam and values inclusive workplace experiences and collaboration.
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.