[Hiring] DevOps Engineer @KOPE AI Ltd

Role Description

We are seeking a highly skilled DevOps Engineer to design, build, and maintain secure, scalable, and resilient cloud infrastructure. This role combines operational efficiency with a strong security mindset, ensuring that our platforms are reliable, compliant, and continuously improving. You will play a key role in shaping our cloud strategy, enhancing our CI/CD capabilities, and embedding security best practices throughout the development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage scalable and highly available cloud infrastructure in Microsoft Azure
• Build and maintain disaster recovery (DR) and failover strategies to ensure business continuity
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Pulumi (existing knowledge of Terraform or similar also acceptable)
• Ensure infrastructure is version-controlled, reusable, and aligned with best practices
• Maintain and enhance existing pipelines in Azure DevOps
• Design and implement modern CI/CD workflows to improve build, test, and deployment processes
• Evaluate and lead potential migration to more mature or scalable tooling platforms
• Integrate security practices into all stages of the development and deployment lifecycle
• Manage and optimise vulnerability scanning tools and processes
• Analyse and prioritise security findings, working with teams to remediate risks
• Act as the primary liaison for external penetration testing providers and internal stakeholders
• Ensure compliance with security standards and organisational policies

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Microsoft Azure cloud services and architecture
• Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (preferably Pulumi, ideally with C#)
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps and at least one other, e.g., Jenkins, Teamcity, Github actions, Octopus Deploy etc.)
• Solid understanding of cloud security principles and DevSecOps practices
• Experience with vulnerability management tools and processes
• Familiarity with disaster recovery planning and implementation

Desirable Skills

• Experience migrating CI/CD platforms or modernising build systems
• Knowledge of containerisation and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools
• Understanding of compliance frameworks (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC 2)
• Experience and understanding of the changing nature of AI involvement in this area and how to employ it

Benefits

• Remote first
• Flexible working style
• Relaxed and fun culture
• Greenfield development with no legacy apps
• Autonomy & responsibility encouraged
• Generous holiday allowance - 23 days paid holiday plus public and bank holidays
• Aviva Health Insurance
• Winter leave – the office closes between Christmas eve and 1st January (inclusive) this is in addition to your personal annual leave
• All-company in person events
• Generous maternity, paternity and parental leave policy