DevOps Engineer

Salary: £29,500 - 49,000 per year

Requirements:

• Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
• Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals, including networking, storage, and operating systems
• Experience programming in at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, or Rust
• Experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling
• Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure
• Experience utilizing AWS cloud solutions in a DevOps environment

Responsibilities:

• Own and operate the infrastructure underpinning our e-commerce platform across production, staging, and pre-production AWS environments, including EKS, Aurora, ElastiCache/Valkey, SQS, Amazon MQ, and S3
• Drive security and compliance delivery, including ASR certification, Shepherd risk remediation, environment separation, CVE response, and patching
• Execute infrastructure cost optimisation against our S-team goals, including DRAM reduction, right-sizing, and VPA adoption
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, including Jenkins/VQJenkins migration, deployment automation, and Terraform
• Participate in the on-call rotation as primary and secondary support for production incident response, triage, and resolution
• Deliver infrastructure changes through Managed Change Management with full rollback planning and operational rigour
• Contribute to platform reliability through multi-AZ resilience, monitoring, alerting, and observability using Prometheus and CloudWatch
• Support cross-team engineering through tooling, automation, and developer experience improvements
• Collaborate with 5 product engineering teams that depend on shared infrastructure
• Triage alerts and monitor dashboards, and act as first responder for production issues when on call
• Provision resources, write Infrastructure-as-Code, and review change management plans
• Help product teams debug deployment failures, identify root causes, and add automation to prevent recurrence
• Prepare production changes such as patching, upgrading, or scaling with proper testing, documentation, and peer approval
• End-to-end own the systems we design, build, deploy, and operate

Technologies:

• AWS
• C#
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• CloudWatch
• DevOps
• Golang
• Support
• Java
• Jenkins
• Prometheus
• Python
• Ruby
• Rust
• Security
• Terraform

More:

We are Veeqo, a Swansea-based company that helps high-growth ecommerce businesses build a streamlined inventory and fulfillment operation so the right products reach the right customers at the right time. Our platform connects to major sales channels and shipping carriers, helping businesses manage orders, inventory, picking and packing, shipping, purchasing, reporting, and more in one place. Recently acquired by Amazon, we are growing quickly and looking for talented people to join our journey. We are a friendly, kind, and modest team that works hard while valuing healthy balance, family, friends, and the things that make us smile. We also love dogs and have a fair few in our office.

last updated 34 week of 2026