Senior DevOps Engineer - Remote UK

About Partnerize

Partnerize empowers businesses by providing a top partnership automation platform that enables brands to find, engage, and convert their audiences effectively. The platform supports diverse collaboration methods, including affiliate marketing and influencer partnerships, driving impactful growth for clients. The company culture values collaboration, innovation, and respect, offering competitive pay, extensive benefits, and flexibility to support professional and personal growth.

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our engineering team to lead deployment architecture enhancements. Embedded within engineering squads, this role focuses on optimizing daily delivery for our on-premise infrastructure while spearheading the configuration and rollout of a new Kubernetes platform that modernizes deployment and scalability.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and enhance Ansible-based deployment automation to support efficient product releases following strict TechOps peer-review guidelines.
• Oversee application health within Kubernetes clusters, collaborating with TechOps for incident management and conducting post-mortems after engineering-led deployments.
• Create and update thorough documentation, including deployment runbooks and developer self-service manuals, to streamline onboarding and release workflows.
• Act as the engineering representative in platform design, collaborating closely with TechOps to define self-service practices, guardrails, and standards around Kubernetes features such as Gateway API, RBAC, admission controls, and resource policies.
• Establish standardized application configurations for ingress, RBAC, namespacing, and secrets management with TechOps.
• Lead phased migrations of applications by containerizing and moving workloads onto Kubernetes, starting with less critical environments before transitioning critical systems.
• Develop robust CI/CD pipelines for Kubernetes deployments employing tools like Helm, Kustomize, or ArgoCD, incorporating automated guardrails to ensure reliable, repeatable, and rapid delivery.
• Setup application observability including metrics, logging, and alerting within namespaces to enhance workload monitoring capabilities.
• Produce and maintain developer-focused documentation to facilitate safe self-service deployment within established guardrails.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to collaborate effectively across diverse technical and leadership teams.
• Proven expertise with Ansible, including roles, inventories, vault management, and ensuring idempotency.
• Proficiency in Docker and Docker Compose for production systems.
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals.
• Strong scripting skills in Bash and Python.
• Experience with GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or Flux.
• Familiarity with observability tools including Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Alertmanager.
• Ability to pragmatically plan and execute within complex legacy systems, progressively moving towards ideal platform architecture.
• Methodical and security-focused approach to engineering challenges.

Preferred Additional Skills

• Knowledge of Helm chart creation and management.
• Experience using infrastructure-as-code technologies such as Terraform in on-premise setups.
• Familiarity with secrets management solutions like HashiCorp Vault, Sealed Secrets, or External Secrets Operator.
• Background balancing greenfield projects alongside routine maintenance and support duties.

Desired Traits

• Comfortable being a go-to resource during urgent issues while also knowing when to schedule tasks thoughtfully.
• Able to communicate effectively with various stakeholders including software engineers, network engineers, and senior leadership possessing different priorities.
• Committed to thorough documentation including runbooks and system diagrams.
• Pragmatic problem solver who selects tools based on practicality rather than perfection.
• Self-starter who takes initiative and drives outcomes independently.

Benefits

• Complete ownership over the software delivery lifecycle including pipeline design and automation.
• Key role in the organization’s cloud-native transition and Kubernetes platform migration.
• Collaborative engineering culture focused on automation, continuous improvement, and modern delivery standards.
• 25 days of holiday plus UK bank holidays.
• Enhanced parental leave: 6 months full pay for birth parents and 4 weeks full pay for non-birth parents after one year of service.
• Additional 5 Partnerize Parental Days per year.
• Private medical and dental insurance coverage.
• Superior pension contributions.
• Cycle to Work scheme participation.
• Eye care vouchers.
• Life assurance policy.
• Expanded wellness program encompassing employee assistance, coaching, and health initiatives.
• Regular company gatherings and team-building activities.

Diversity and Inclusion Commitment

Partnerize promotes an inclusive environment that welcomes all individuals regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, or abilities. The organization fosters a culture where employees can be authentic, raise concerns, innovate freely, and access equal opportunities for success.

Recruitment Notice

Partnerize only accepts resumes directly from candidates or approved vendors with signed agreements. Unsolicited resumes from agencies or recruiters will be considered company property, and no fees will be acknowledged related to such submissions.