First Orion
DevOps Platform Engineer
Job Description
Salary: £38,000 - 78,000 per year
Requirements:- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or a related role
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience supporting production environments and troubleshooting infrastructure issues
- Strong understanding of Linux-based systems and containerized applications
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently in a distributed environment
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills
- Applicants must have the legal right to work in their country of residence
- Nice to have: experience with multi-cloud or hybrid/on-premises deployments; Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform; PostgreSQL and Kafka; highly available, scalable platform architectures; and cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Own and maintain deployment pipelines across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises customer environments
- Design and manage containerized infrastructure using Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm
- Build, improve, and support CI/CD workflows using Gradle and Bitbucket Pipelines
- Ensure deployments are reproducible, consistent, and cloud-agnostic
- Monitor platform health, performance, and reliability using Prometheus and Grafana
- Manage secrets and secure platform access using Vault
- Troubleshoot production issues and support deployment activities across environments
- Partner with software engineers to improve deployment processes, platform reliability, and developer experience
- Drive automation to reduce operational overhead and increase deployment consistency
- Contribute to platform architecture decisions and infrastructure best practices
- AWS
- Azure
- BitBucket
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- DevOps
- Docker
- Gradle
- Grafana
- Helm
- Support
- Kafka
- Kubernetes
- Linux
- PostgreSQL
- Prometheus
- Terraform
- GCP
More:
We are First Orion, a telecommunications technology company founded in 2008 and headquartered in North Little Rock, Arkansas. We build solutions that protect consumers from scam and spoofed calls and help businesses deliver trusted, branded calling experiences. Our teams across North America, Europe, and the Middle East work collaboratively in a distributed environment. We are hiring a mid-senior Platform Engineer to build, operate, and evolve infrastructure for our products across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. The role may be based onsite in Dubai, UAE, or remotely in the UK, and is full-time. Work generally follows local business hours, with occasional flexibility for planned maintenance, implementations, and service escalations across time zones. The UK salary range is 30,800–54,100, depending on experience; UAE compensation will be discussed during recruitment. Our energetic, collaborative culture emphasizes trust, transparency, empowerment, and ownership. Benefits vary by location and may include competitive pay, medical insurance, paid time off and public holidays, retirement or pension benefits where applicable, an annual home-country flight allowance for eligible UAE-based employees and dependents, flexible working arrangements, and professional development opportunities. We comply with applicable local employment laws and are committed to equal opportunity and an inclusive workplace. Applicants personal data is processed in accordance with our privacy policy and applicable data protection laws.
last updated 40 week of 2026
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First Orion
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£58,000
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£60,000
UK median
This salary is 3% below the UK median for Software Engineers (£60,000/yr).
Based on 2024–2025 UK technology sector benchmarks