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Our teams are based in the UK, Europe, US, and India, working on products that are used on a global scale. We have a clear and defined road map to deliver over the next 3 years, which is centred around a large-scale digital transformation as well as continuing our growth and expansion.\nWe embrace diversity and equality and want our employees to be comfortable bringing their whole selves to work. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, skills and views. Creating a culture of Equality isn’t just the right thing to do, it improves every aspect of our business.\nPurpose\nThe Senior DevOps Engineer is a senior member of the Engineering function, responsible for leading the infrastructure, tooling, and practices that enable Causeway’s product and platform engineering teams to build, ship, and operate software reliably and at pace.\nThe role sits at the intersection of software engineering and infrastructure. The Senior DevOps Engineer partners directly with product and platform teams to design and own the CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and operational standards that underpin Causeway’s SaaS products. This is a hands-on engineering role, with the expectation to build systems as code, influence architectural decisions, establish engineering standards, and treat infrastructure with the same rigour applied to software.\nThe Senior DevOps Engineer provides technical leadership across the DevOps discipline, supporting and mentoring other engineers while driving improvements in platform reliability, developer experience, security, and cost efficiency.\nThe key areas of responsibility for the Senior DevOps Engineer include:\nPlatform & Infrastructure Engineering\nDeveloper Experience & CI/CD\nReliability & Observability\nSecurity & Cost Governance\nTechnical Leadership & Engineering Standards\nKey Responsibilities\nPlatform & Infrastructure Engineering\nLead the design, build, and maintenance of cloud infrastructure using infrastructure as code (IaC), owning Terraform modules, configuration management, and environment consistency across development, staging, and production.\nManage and evolve the Kubernetes-based container platform, including cluster architecture, configuration, workload scheduling, autoscaling, and namespace governance for product and platform services.\nOwn the cloud networking, identity, and secrets management configuration that underpins secure, multi-tenant SaaS delivery.\nContribute to and influence the design of the platform architecture alongside Software Engineers and Architects, ensuring infrastructure decisions align with product scalability, security, and reliability requirements.\nEvaluate and introduce tooling and platform capabilities that improve the speed, safety, and quality of software delivery across engineering teams.\nIdentify and address technical debt within the infrastructure and platform estate, establishing clear improvement roadmaps and priorities.\nDeveloper Experience & CI/CD\nLead the design and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines that allow engineering teams to deliver code to production frequently, safely, and with a high degree of automation, covering build, test, security scanning, and deployment stages.\nWork closely with software engineers to reduce friction in the development lifecycle, shortening feedback loops, improving local environment parity, and making deployment a routine, low-risk activity.\nDefine and maintain branching strategies, environment promotion workflows, and release standards in collaboration with delivery leads and engineering teams.\nDevelop and maintain internal platform tooling and self-service capabilities that allow product teams to operate their services with autonomy.\nEstablish reusable pipeline patterns, templates, and engineering standards that can be adopted consistently across product teams.\nCreate and maintain clear technical documentation of infrastructure, pipelines, architectural decisions, and operational runbooks to ensure knowledge is accessible across engineering.\nReliability & Observability\nLead the design and ownership of the observability stack, including centralised logging, distributed tracing, metrics collection, and alerting, ensuring engineering teams have clear visibility into the health and performance of their services.\nDefine and maintain SLOs and SLAs in collaboration with product and engineering teams, and build the tooling needed to measure and report against them.\nLead incident response for complex infrastructure and platform issues, conducting post-incident reviews and driving systemic improvements to prevent recurrence.\nProactively identify reliability, scalability, and performance risks across the platform and work with engineering teams to address them before they impact customers.\nChampion a culture of operational excellence across engineering, promoting practices such as chaos engineering, load testing, capacity planning, and runbook-driven incident response.\nUse operational data and service performance metrics to identify trends and prioritise platform improvements.\nSecurity & Cost Governance\nEmbed security practices into the engineering lifecycle, including static analysis, dependency scanning, container image hardening, and secrets management, working with the security team to ensure compliance with ISO27001 and other relevant standards.\nOwn cloud cost visibility and optimisation, working with engineering teams to right-size workloads, identify waste, and maintain financial accountability for infrastructure spend.\nEnsure that infrastructure and deployment practices meet data protection and compliance requirements, particularly in the context of multi-tenant SaaS delivery.\nProvide technical guidance on infrastructure security, cloud governance, access controls, and risk management.\nTake responsibility for personal development, staying current with advances in cloud-native engineering, DevSecOps, and platform engineering practices.\nTechnical Leadership & Engineering Standards\nAct as a technical authority for DevOps and platform engineering, setting standards and providing guidance across the Engineering function.\nMentor and support DevOps Engineers and other technical colleagues, helping to build capability and promote consistent engineering practices.\nLead technical discussions, architecture reviews, and proof-of-concept activities relating to cloud infrastructure, automation, reliability, and developer tooling.\nCollaborate with engineering leadership to define the DevOps and platform roadmap, ensuring priorities support wider product and business objectives.\nChallenge existing approaches constructively and drive continuous improvement across infrastructure, delivery, security, and operational practices.\nPromote knowledge sharing and collaboration across product, platform, architecture, security, and IT teams.\nKey Skills, Experience and Qualifications\nEssential\nSignificant experience as a DevOps, Platform, or Site Reliability Engineer within a software product company, with a focus on cloud-native infrastructure and developer tooling.\nProven experience leading the design and delivery of complex DevOps or platform engineering initiatives.\nStrong proficiency with at least one major cloud platform, with AWS preferred, and deep hands-on experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform or equivalent.\nExperience designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or equivalent.\nStrong experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration, including cluster management, Helm, workload configuration, security, and operational best practices.\nProficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or PowerShell, and familiarity with YAML-based configuration.\nExperience building and operating observability stacks, including logging such as ELK, Datadog, or CloudWatch, alongside metrics, tracing, and alerting.\nStrong understanding of cloud networking, IAM, secrets management, and security best practices in a SaaS environment.\nStrong engineering fundamentals, with experience working in version-controlled codebases, participating in code reviews, and treating infrastructure as software.\nExperience defining technical standards, influencing architectural decisions, and driving the adoption of engineering best practices.\nExperience mentoring or supporting the technical development of other engineers.\nExcellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence and work effectively alongside software engineers, architects, security teams, product teams, and senior stakeholders.\nDesirable\nExperience with platform engineering concepts and internal developer platform (IDP) tooling such as Backstage or Port.\nKnowledge of service mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd for managing inter-service communication.\nFamiliarity with GitOps workflows and tools such as ArgoCD or Flux.\nKnowledge of ISO27001 and experience embedding security controls into engineering pipelines.\nExperience defining and managing SLOs, SLAs, and error budgets.\nExperience in a SaaS company delivering multi-tenant products at scale.\nKnowledge of the construction, engineering, or field service management industry.\nOur Values\nWe areUnited. As part of a team, we’re better together.\nWe areAgile. Be the change, we’re on a journey.\nWe areTrusted. Do the right thing, we own this.\nWe areDriven. Get stuck in, we make it happen.\nBenefits\nAs a leader in employee engagement and people management, there are fantastic benefits and rewards at Causeway. We strive, year on year, to achieve recognition as an award-winning workplace that our employees love. We’ve selected just a few of the many benefits available below to show you how we take care of our Causeway stars.\n25 days annual leave + public holidays, increasing with length of service.\n\n4% matched pension.\n\nIncome protection and life assurance.\n\nAccess to our award-winning benefits platform.\n\nWe take mental health seriously and have a dedicated EAP available 24/7.\n\n£100 allowance towards a fitness club.\n\nPrivate Medical Insurance.\n\nPaid study leave + volunteering days.\n\nElectric Car Scheme.\n\nLike all responsible companies Causeway is aware of the need to recognise the importance of protecting our environment and addressing the climate emergency. Causeway is a carbon neutral company and we offset our calculated carbon footprint. 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