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We support over 5,000 automotive retailers, helping drivers spread the cost of motoring bills, accessories and servicing through flexible payment options. Our purpose is simple: to give drivers peace of mind while improving the customer experience and supporting dealer profitability.\nFollowing our successful Series B in 2024, Bumper continues to scale across the UK and Europe - and we’re excited to welcome a passionate and experienced DevOps / SRE Engineer, based in our Sheffield office, to help us take our platform reliability and engineering excellence to the next level.\nOur Head Office is in Sheffield City Centre, with offices also based in London and Turkey. We've also expanded further, bringing retailers in Ireland, Germany and Spain on board, with the vision of being the leading automotive payment and insights platform!\nA bit about the role...\nWe’re looking for a DevOps / SRE Engineer to join our growing Infrastructure team. In this role, you’ll help shape and strengthen the reliability, scalability and observability of our cloud-native platform. You’ll work across the business to improve how we build, deploy and monitor our systems, while playing a key role in incident response and continuous improvement.\nYou’ll report directly to our Chief Technology Officer and will collaborate closely with engineers across Bumper to build a high-performance, well-monitored, developer-friendly platform - and you’ll be a key voice in building a strong SRE and DevOps culture across the team.\nThis is a full-time hybrid-role, based in our Sheffield Office, at least 3 days a week.\nWhat we are looking for in you…\nWe’re excited to welcome someone who shares our passion for building reliable, scalable, well-engineered cloud systems. You thrive in environments where operational thinking, curiosity, and continuous improvement are valued.\nProven experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles\n\nStrong hands-on experience running Kubernetes in production\n\nExperience with AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms\n\nSolid experience with Terraform and IaC automation\n\nExperience participating in or managing production incidents and on-call\n\nStrong grasp of monitoring, alerting, and observability principles\n\nAbility to diagnose and fix complex distributed systems issues\n\nDemonstrated use of GenAI tools (ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Claude) in engineering workflows\n\nExcellent communication and calmness under pressure\n\nA passion for automation and reducing toil\n\nNice to haves...\nExperience with Grafana Cloud, IRM or other incident management tools\n\nFamiliarity with Argo Workflows / ArgoCD\n\nExperience defining SLIs/SLOs at scale\n\nBackground in Platform Engineering\n\nExperience improving or redesigning incident management processes\n\nWe’re an international team, and English is our shared working language. You’ll collaborate frequently with colleagues in the UK, so confidence communicating in English is important for this role.\nDay-to-day responsibilities:\nDesign, build and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure\n\nManage and enhance our Kubernetes (EKS) platform to support reliable, modern applications\n\nDevelop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Helm\n\nImprove and support CI/CD pipelines using Argo Workflows, ArgoCD and GitHub Actions\n\nLead and participate in incident response, including on-call activities and major incident coordination\n\nDrive high-quality monitoring, alerting and observability across metrics, logs and traces\n\nConduct and support blameless post-incident reviews, ensuring follow-up actions are delivered\n\nDefine and implement SLIs/SLOs to improve service reliability and operational excellence\n\nCollaborate with engineering teams to embed best practices and improve developer experience\n\nContribute to automation, tooling, and continuous improvements that reduce toil and increase platform resilience\n\nWhat you'll get from us...\nCompetitive Salary\n\nCompany bonus scheme\n\nPrivate Healthcare and Medicash plan\n\nWe give 26 days holiday + bank holidays, plus volunteer days throughout the year (pro-rated)\n\nTax-saving Salary Sacrifice Pension with Aviva\n\nSalary sacrifice Cycle to Work, Octopus Electric Vehicle, andNursery fee schemes available!\n\nFor all your well-being and development needs, we give each colleague access to a benefits platform, with an allowance of £250 per year for wellbeing, and £150 per year for development\n\nIf and when the time comes, we will give 4 months paid leave to primary carers, and 1 month of paid leave to secondary carers\n\nPerks are nice, but we know perks don’t make up the whole package of a great job. By joining our Bumper team, you'll have the opportunity to be an ambassador for our product & brand, and help us to continue on our winning streak!\nImportant: This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. 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