DevOps Engineer

The Role

We're looking for an experienced DevOps engineer to join Space Inch and take up work with the Core team of one of our long-standing clients, a leading investment and asset management firm in the US. You'll work alongside Space Inch teammates and the client's own engineers, who together make up a large part of five combined teams spanning infrastructure, SRE, and various application teams that build on top of them.

The work sits at the intersection of DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering. Beyond keeping pipelines and clusters healthy, a big part of the job is treating the underlying infrastructure as a product: building the self-service tooling, reusable modules, and paved paths that let the application teams ship safely without reinventing deployment, observability, or security every time. Much of this work is greenfield, so there's real scope to shape how the platform looks for years to come rather than just maintaining what already exists.

If you like owning infrastructure that other engineers depend on, and want a seat in the architectural conversations that decide where it goes, we'd love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain CI/CD across GitHub Actions, container registries, and the deployment pipelines the application teams rely on
• Run and improve Kubernetes across multiple environments and regions, managing releases with Helm and Flux
• Develop reusable Terraform and Ansible modules so infrastructure stays consistent, version-controlled, and easy for teams to adopt
• Expand the self-service platform capabilities that let application teams provision, deploy, and monitor their own services within sensible guardrails
• Strengthen observability and reliability with DataDog, and help define the SLOs, alerting, and on-call practices that keep services healthy
• Support the ongoing migration to Azure, from architecture decisions through to rollout
• Work closely with cloud service providers, Azure in particular, managing the relationship, capacity, and cost so the platform stays well-supported and the teams building on it get what they need
• Integrate as a full member of the client's DevOps, infrastructure, and core engineering teams rather than an outside contributor
• Take part in strategic and architectural discussions, and advocate for changes that improve how the wider engineering org builds and ships

Qualities for Success

• A strong grasp of building reliable Kubernetes pipelines and platforms
• Creativity in problem-solving and in architecting complex migration work
• Excellent communication, both for collaborating internally and for advocating change to the teams using your infrastructure
• An ownership mentality: you take charge of tasks and have autonomy over how you implement them

This Role is Right for You If

• You enjoy deciding for yourself how to approach a problem
• Work that rewards strategic thinking and a deep understanding of the whole system
• Collaborating across teams and making a visible difference to how they deploy

This Role is Not Right for You If

• You prefer purely operational work that follows a fixed runbook with little room to change it
• You're uncomfortable taking initiative or proposing new ideas
• You avoid cross-team collaboration