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Our digital programmes help people manage weight-related illnesses by focusing on what matters most: improving health, building confidence, and enhancing quality of life.\nTo date, we have supported over one million people across the UK, Switzerland, and Germany. Our mission is powered by a dedicated team operating across four countries, including our hub in Poland. Every conversation, coaching session, and line of code brings us closer to a healthier future.\nOur journey is accelerating: In 2026, we secured €200 million in Series D funding led by Kinnevik and a group of leading global investors. This investment fuels our next phase of growth, allowing us to scale our AI-enabled chronic care platform across Europe and expand our support to even more people living with chronic conditions.\nJoin us, and be part of the team making that future possible!\nOverview:\nAs a Principal DevOps Engineer, you partner directly with Engineering leadership to set the technical direction and multi-year strategy for Oviva's infrastructure and platform, ensuring it is aligned to mid- and long-term business goals.\nYou will work within the Engineering function and work closely with senior engineering leaders, fellow Staff and Principal engineers, and the engineering teams who build and ship on the platform you own. You collaborate with Security & Compliance (Quality/QMS) on regulatory and security matters, and you own key external technology relationships, including cloud providers and infrastructure vendors.\nAs the most senior infrastructure authority, you are the ultimate technical arbitrator on cross-company decisions, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability, as well as security and cloud architecture.\nRequirements\nEssential:\nIndustry-recognised mastery in designing, building, and operating large-scale, business-critical distributed systems and the platforms that run them.\n\nDeep expertise across infrastructure domains: container orchestration, cloud architecture, infrastructure-as-code, networking, observability, and continuous delivery.\n\nStrong reliability-engineering background: designing for high availability, leading incident response, and driving operational maturity.\n\nSecurity-first mindset with proven experience operating in a regulated environment (information-security and/or medical-device standards) and embedding compliance into platforms.\n\nContinuous delivery and DevOps mindset, with a track record of automating release processes and improving development workflows and release efficiency.\n\nVendor and external-partner management - evaluating, selecting, and managing cloud and infrastructure providers, including cost and performance.\n\nExceptional business acumen, with the ability to translate high-level business goals into a coherent and actionable technical strategy. Building systems that also be able to adapt to future business goals by anticipating potential changes\n\nStrong ability to communicate complex technical ideas clearly and influence executive, non-technical audiences.\n\nA proven history of visionary technical leadership with projects that had significant, long-term impact across a business.\n\nMaster's in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience\n\nDesirable:\nDriven by a strong curiosity in cutting-edge tech, you're hands-on, experimenting with new technology and how we could best leverage it\n\nExperience in presenting at external tech talks, external meetups, or conferences.\n\nLeadership roles in major open-source projects or industry standards bodies.\n\nExperience in a regulated industry, such as healthcare.\n\nResponsibilities:\nOwn and drive the long-term technical strategy and architectural vision for Oviva's infrastructure and platform.\n\nAct as technical owner and lead architect for our most critical systems: container platform, deployment/delivery pipeline, observability, and service identity.\n\nBe accountable for platform reliability and operational excellence: availability, incident response and prevention, and continuous improvement of how we run production.\n\nOwn the platform's security and regulatory-compliance posture (e.g. medical-device and information-security standards), partnering with Quality and Security teams to make compliance an automated, built-in property of the platform.\n\nOwn key external technology relationships and vendor management: cloud providers and infrastructure vendors; including technical evaluation, negotiation input, and ongoing performance and cost management.\n\nDrive infrastructure cost-efficiency, ensuring spend scales sustainably with the business.\n\nBuild self-service capabilities, golden paths, and reusable frameworks so teams can build, deploy, and operate independently without the platform becoming a bottleneck.\n\nProvide direct, expert counsel to leadership on technology threats, opportunities, and strategic infrastructure investments.\n\nMentor and develop Senior & Staff engineers, growing the next generation of technical leaders.\n\nIdentify and mitigate technical and operational risk, ensuring the long-term health, reliability, and scalability of our systems.\n\nChampion engineering excellence: high standards in automation, testing, documentation, and operational practices and apply AI to improve developer productivity and operational efficiency.\n\nLead one or more engineering guilds to set, align on, and govern standards (e.g. delivery, infrastructure, security, quality gates).\n\nHaving a culture that people want to work in, is very important to us. We do this by keeping our values at the forefront of everything we do:\nWe put the patient first. We empower our teams. We make it happen\nOviva is passionate about creating an inclusive culture that celebrates diverse voices and perspectives. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds and identities.\nReady to help shape the future of digital healthcare? 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