- Company Name
- Eucalyptus
- Job Title
- Lead DevOps Engineer, London, UK
- Job Description
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**Job Title**
Lead DevOps Engineer
**Role Summary**
Lead the design, implementation, and operation of cloud‑native infrastructure that powers Eucalyptus’s digital health platform. Drive reliability, scalability, automation, and security across the engineering organization, while improving developer experience through self‑service tooling and automation.
**Expectations**
- 6+ years of engineering experience in software, startup, or scale‑up environments.
- Proven ability to manage and mentor a small infrastructure team (up to 3 engineers).
- Strong coding proficiency in at least one modern language (Go, JavaScript, TypeScript).
- Hands‑on experience building and maintaining production cloud environments on AWS or GCP.
- Demonstrated expertise in containerisation (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
- Extensive use of IaC with Terraform and creation of reusable modules.
- Familiarity with micro‑service architectures, distributed systems, and cloud security best practices.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Own and evolve the core infrastructure stack that supports all engineering teams.
- Design, provision, and manage a resilient, secure, and cost‑effective cloud environment.
- Develop and maintain self‑service tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and automation to accelerate delivery.
- Collaborate with product, platform, and security stakeholders to translate business and technical requirements into scalable solutions.
- Lead incident response, capacity planning, and continuous improvement of monitoring, alerting, and disaster recovery processes.
- Mentor and grow junior infrastructure engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration and technical excellence.
**Required Skills**
- Cloud platforms: AWS or GCP (experience with services such as EKS, GKE, EC2, S3, BigQuery).
- Containerisation: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm.
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, AWS CloudFormation or equivalent.
- Programming: Go, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
- CI/CD & SRE practices: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK.
- Security: IAM, VPC, secrets management (HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager).
- DevOps mindset: automation, monitoring, observability, incident management.
- Strong written and verbal communication for technical and non‑technical audiences.
**Required Education & Certifications**
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent professional experience).
- Cloud certifications preferred: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer, or equivalent.
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