Senior DevOps Engineer

Build the infrastructure powering the future of constructionAt XYZ Reality, we’ve created the world’s first engineering-grade Augmented Reality solution for construction. Our technology, The Atom, is used on major projects worldwide to help construction teams build more accurately, efficiently and with fewer mistakes.As a Series B business scaling across the UK, US and Europe, the infrastructure behind our technology needs to scale with us.We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to take ownership of the cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices powering our BIM Platform, working across Azure, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, security and developer tooling.The RoleThis is a hands-on senior engineering role with broad ownership across our cloud and platform infrastructure.You’ll work closely with our Engineering, Data and Security teams to build reliable, scalable infrastructure while improving how our developers deploy, monitor and troubleshoot their services.We want DevOps to be an enabler rather than a gatekeeper. That means building the tooling, automation and self-service capabilities that allow engineering teams to move quickly and safely without creating unnecessary dependencies on DevOps. You’ll have the autonomy to identify where our infrastructure and engineering practices can improve and take ownership of making those improvements happen.The role is based in our London office on a hybrid basis, with 3 days per week in the office. What You’ll Be DoingArchitect, maintain and evolve our Microsoft Azure infrastructure and Kubernetes clustersBuild and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, ARM templates and HelmDesign and improve CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, enabling fast, safe and repeatable deploymentsBuild observability across our infrastructure and services through monitoring, logging, alerting and distributed tracingImprove platform reliability, scalability and performance through capacity planning, autoscaling and resource optimisationBuild and maintain disaster recovery, backup and failover strategiesStrengthen infrastructure security across areas including network policies, secrets management and platform hardeningEstablish and improve incident response processes, on-call practices, runbooks and blameless post-mortemsWork with our Data team to support reliable and scalable PostgreSQL and MongoDB environmentsBuild self-service tooling, templates and documentation that reduce unnecessary reliance on DevOpsSupport infrastructure for data pipelines and AI/ML model deployment as our technology continues to evolvePartner directly with developers on deployment, troubleshooting and infrastructure best practices. What We’re Looking ForWe’re looking for a strong, hands-on DevOps Engineer who is comfortable owning complex infrastructure and operating across a broad technical environment.You’ll ideally have:Demonstrable in-depth experience in DevOps, Infrastructure or Cloud EngineeringStrong hands-on experience with Microsoft AzureDeep experience with Kubernetes, including cluster design, networking, storage, upgrades and troubleshootingStrong Infrastructure-as-Code experience using Terraform, ARM templates or equivalentExperience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines, ideally with GitHub ActionsStrong experience with containers and DockerExperience implementing monitoring, logging, alerting and observability within production environmentsGood knowledge of infrastructure security, including network segmentation, encryption, secrets management and audit logging