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Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters-at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.\nAt IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.\nWe celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.\nBy joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.\nWe’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.\nIf you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.\n About IFSLogistics\nIFS Logistics helps enterprise shippers connect transport data, manage carrier spend, and automate execution. The product began as 7bridges and is now part of IFS, with a small, focused team working closely with the commercial organisation.\nWe build SaaS products that customers can run themselves. The platform handles busy, data-heavy logistics operations, so reliability and clear operational visibility matter every day.\nThe role\nYou will join Diego Silva, our Lead DevOps Engineer, as the second DevOps specialist responsible for the platform. You will take ownership of substantial workstreams while partnering closely with application and data engineers.\nThere is useful work to do from day one. We want every merge request reviewed, production deployments controlled, and releases running to a predictable cadence. Those practices are not yet consistent across the team. Our monitoring also needs to cover more of the application and data estate, and our pipelines need stronger detection, recovery and ownership when something fails.\nYou will help turn those goals into working systems: better signals, safer delivery paths, faster recovery and infrastructure the team understands. This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys improving a live platform rather than waiting for a perfect starting point.\nWhat you'll work on\nBuild useful observability. Improve metrics, logs, traces and alerts across the Django API, data pipelines and warehouse so the team spots problems early and can diagnose them quickly.\nImprove CI/CD. Make GitLab pipelines fast, dependable and difficult to bypass, with review and deployment controls built into the workflow.\nReduce operational risk. Remove direct-to-production paths, improve release controls and help the team establish a reliable weekly release rhythm.\nManage cloud cost. Make GCP spend visible by workload and product area, then reduce waste without compromising service quality.\nDevelop infrastructure as code. Improve our Terraform and Kubernetes setup so environments are reproducible, secure and clearly documented.\nStrengthen data-pipeline reliability. Add failure detection, freshness checks, replay paths and clear ownership across Datastream, Pub/Sub, dbt and BigQuery.\nRespond and learn. Help shape incident management and on-call practices, then turn recurring failures into automated checks and safeguards.\n What we're looking for\nStrong experience running production services on GCP.\nPractical knowledge of Kubernetes and Terraform, including operating and improving infrastructure rather than only deploying to it.\nExperience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in GitLab or a similar platform.\nEvidence that you have instrumented a real system and improved its metrics, logging, tracing or alerting.\nExamples of treating cloud cost as an engineering concern: attributing spend, finding waste and making informed trade-offs.\nExperience operating data pipelines, such as streaming ingestion, warehouse loads, dbt transformations or similar workflows.\nThe confidence to challenge an unsafe change and explain what needs to happen before it can ship.\nPractical experience with AI coding tools such as Cursor or Claude, including how you provide context and verify infrastructure changes before accepting them.\nThe ability to assess an imperfect system, decide what matters most and carry the improvement through to production.\nNice to have\nEnough Python experience to investigate or fix issues in a Django application.\nSecurity or compliance work in an enterprise SaaS environment.\nExperience designing incident-management or on-call processes.\nBigQuery cost and performance tuning.\nTech stack\nGCP, Kubernetes, Terraform and GitLab CI/CD. Python and Django REST, TypeScript, Node and React. BigQuery, dbt, Cube Cloud and Superset. Pub/Sub and Datastream. The team uses Cursor and Claude for development, Notion for specifications and Jira for delivery.\nWhat success looks like in the first six months\nOur monitoring identifies production problems before customers report them.\nPipeline failures are detected quickly, assigned clearly and recoverable without improvised fixes.\nMerge-request review and controlled production deployment are enforced through the delivery pipeline.\nWeekly releases run predictably without creating unnecessary overhead for engineers.\nGCP spend is attributable to workloads and product areas, with clear action taken on the main cost drivers.\nApplication and data teams have a responsive platform partner who improves their ability to ship safely.\nWhy we're hiring now\nThe team is growing and the platform needs to support a faster pace of delivery. That requires better visibility, stronger data pipelines and release controls that work without relying on individual memory or manual intervention.\nDiego currently carries too much of that responsibility alone. This role adds the capacity to improve the platform while still supporting the product in production, and gives the team another engineer who can take a problem, form a plan and see it through.\n This successful candidate will need to be based in the UK or the Netherlands. We're a remote team with clusters of people in London and Amsterdam.\nWe embrace flexibility and hybrid work opportunities to support diverse needs and lifestyles, while also valuing inclusive workplace experiences. By fostering a sense of community, we drive innovation, strengthen connections, and nurture belonging. 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