Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer

Salary: £100,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements:

• We require strong experience with Kubernetes and containerisation, including Docker and orchestration at scale.
• We require hands-on production infrastructure experience.
• We require experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar.
• We require proficiency in Python, Go, Java, or a comparable backend language.
• We require experience designing and delivering CI/CD pipelines.
• We require comfort operating in a fast-paced, high-autonomy environment.
• We require a proven track record of building and deploying production systems, not just maintaining them.
• We require the ability to own reliability, monitoring, and operations end to end.
• We require willingness to participate in an on-call rotation.
• We require eligibility to hold active UK SC clearance, or to obtain it through a British passport, ILR, or Settled Status.
• We require the ability to work UK hours and be hybrid in London.

Responsibilities:

• We build, operate, and maintain high-performance, scalable, and reliable production infrastructure.
• We own reliability end to end, including monitoring, alerting, config management, and upgrades.
• We deploy new products and run migrations across production environments.
• We lead automation efforts to reduce manual toil and improve resilience.
• We debug, harden, and optimise services with a focus on long-term reliability.
• We participate in an on-call rotation for production support.
• We partner with delivery and product teams on sensible, scalable systems design.

Technologies:

• Ansible
• Backend
• CI/CD
• Docker
• Support
• Java
• Kubernetes
• Python
• Security
• Terraform
• AI
• Cloud
• DevOps
• LLM

More:

We are a publicly listed technology company building mission-critical software for some of the most important institutions in the world. This is a forward-deployed infrastructure role where we operate at startup speed inside a high-security, high-impact environment, owning reliability, deployments, and automation for systems where uptime genuinely matters. The role is hands-on and focused on production infrastructure, system reliability, and scaling operations, working closely with product and delivery teams in a high-ownership setting with minimal bureaucracy. We offer a salary of £90,000 to £105,000 plus RSUs, a hybrid working model with 1 to 2 days per week in our London office for secure work and on-call, relocation support for candidates outside London, and an on-call rotation of roughly every 5 to 6 weeks.

last updated 30 week of 2026