[Hiring] Senior DevOps Engineer @Description Buckhill

Role Description

Buckhill is a global technology company with offices in the UK and Croatia. As a strategic technology partner to the London Market, we deliver modern insurance solutions through agile, cross-functional delivery teams leveraging AI capabilities, a growing partner ecosystem, and a culture rooted in innovation and collaboration. We support continuous learning and invest in the growth of our Bucks, fostering an environment where people thrive. With the option for remote work, we've expanded our global footprint, building a diverse and multicultural team making a real impact.

We are hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to take ownership of critical infrastructure and drive meaningful improvements across Buckhill's DevOps capabilities. This role calls for strategic thinking, technical leadership, and genuine accountability for production systems where reliability, security, and scalability directly shape the client experience.

• You will shape architectural decisions, mentor engineers, champion automation, and bridge the gap between development, operations, and security.
• You will operate, and continuously improve a complex, multi-cloud Kubernetes environment supporting single-tenant client deployments with strict compliance and data-residency requirements.
• This role is for someone who has done this before. We need an engineer who can walk into a production incident, lead the response, and follow up with systemic improvements.

Salary Ranges

• Croatia: €4.5k - €5k (Gross 1, monthly)
• Croatia: €54k - €60k (Gross 1, annual)
• United Kingdom: £69.6k - £77.4k (Gross, annual)
• Europe, outside of Croatia: €56.6k - €76.8k (Gross 2, annual)
• Africa & Sri Lanka: €56.6k - €69.9k (Gross 2, annual)
• Rest of the world: €56.6k - €90.8k (Gross 2, annual)

Requirements

• Minimum 6 years in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering roles, with clear progression into senior-level ownership and technical leadership.
• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent demonstrable experience.
• Deep, production-grade Kubernetes experience - cluster management across EKS, AKS, or self-managed deployments. Comfortable with RBAC, network policies, Helm, HPA, pod disruption budgets, and day-2 operations at scale.
• Strong cloud platform expertise (AWS and/or Azure) - multi-account architecture, IAM, VPC design, VPN, load balancers, DNS, and security best practices.
• Advanced GitLab CI/CD proficiency - designing and maintaining complex multi-stage pipelines with security gates, caching strategies, and artefact management.
• Solid Infrastructure as Code expertise with Terraform or OpenTofu - module design, state management, remote backends, and team-wide governance.
• Proficient scripting in Bash and/or Python for automation, tooling, and integration.
• Strong observability experience - Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, or equivalent for monitoring, alerting, and distributed tracing in production.
• Proven security knowledge - vulnerability scanning, secrets management (Vault/OpenBao), DevSecOps integration, and familiarity with compliance frameworks.
• Incident management experience - on-call rotations, P1/P2 escalation, root cause analysis, and post-incident review processes.
• Clear, structured communicator who can explain complex infrastructure decisions to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
• Track record of mentoring junior and mid-level engineers.
• Strong sense of ownership - you follow through, document decisions, and leave systems better than you found them.

Mandatory certifications

• CKA - Certified Kubernetes Administrator
• CKS - Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional)
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer — Professional
• HashiCorp Terraform Associate
• Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400)

Nice-to-have certifications

• CKAD - Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
• PCA - Prometheus Certified Associate
• AWS Certified Security - Specialty
• Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)
• CISSP or equivalent security certification
• ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Implementer or Auditor
• Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS)
• GitLab Certified CI/CD Associate