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Senior DevOps Engineer
Position: Senior DevOps Engineer Department: Platform Engineering Reporting to: Senior Technology Manager Location: London or Amsterdam Flexibility: Hybrid role (3 days in-office, 2 days remote working)
Exciting Opportunity with Just Eat Takeaway.com Ready for a challenge? Join Just Eat Takeaway.com, a leading global online delivery platform that connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurants, grocery stores, and convenience stores worldwide. Our mission? To deliver everyday convenience with groundbreaking technology.
About This Role
At JET Platform Engineering, we’re building the next generation of our developer platform. We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer—an expert who excels in scalability, automation, and developer experience. If you thrive in collaborative, fast-moving environments and drive impactful engineering solutions, we want you on our team.
Key responsibilities include:
- Designing and developing modern engineer-facing products and features
- Building scalable, resilient software components using Python
- Managing cloud infrastructure (AWS/EC2/ECS/S3, GCP or Azure) with automation for high availability
- Optimizing applications for performance and scalability in global SaaS environments
- Creating & maintaining documentation, including runbooks and operational guides
- Supporting CI/CD workflows in complex, distributed environments
- Collaborating cross-functionally in agile teams with global stakeholders
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Development & Cloud Expertise
- Develop new features and tools for developers’ workflows (e.g., CLI tools, IDE integrations, observability dashboards)
- Design and maintain cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), ensuring efficiency, compliance, and scalability
- Implement serverless architectures and event-driven systems
- Author, adapt, and maintain automated runbooks and operational playbooks for incident response
Scale & Performance
- Optimize performance, reliability, and security of distributed systems
- Implement adaptive resiliency strategies in microservices environments
Collaboration & Ownership
- Act as a technical mentor for junior engineers and düzle platform contributors.
- Represent platform engineering in cross-functional meetings and roadmap discussions
Who You Are
Essential
- Proven track record in production-level DevOps/Platform Engineering
- 5+ years of Python and experience with SOLID/DRY design principles
- Expertise in Kubernetes and container orchestration (e.g., Amazon ECS/Fargate, EKS)
- Deep understanding of RESTful/GraphQL APIs in performance-critical environments
- Ability to operate seamlessly with CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Argo CD, Azure DevOps)
- Hands-on experience with cloud-native observability (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, CloudWatch)
- Experience building global, distributed systems for high availability and low latency
- Strong Unit, Integration & Performance testing background
Preferred
- Experience with Terraform/Ansible/Pulumi as IAC tools
- Comfort with OpenTelemetry for observability
- Familiarity with Just Eat Takeaway’s tech stack and artifacts (competitive advantage)
- Background in blockchain or machine ingestions tools
- Interactive with data latency refinement to improve delivery platforms
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Mind-Set & behaviours
- Fast-pattern recognizer who can debug, optimize, and learn quickly
- Investigative, creative thinker with a passion for cloud engineering
- Ambition to move quickly and enjoy tackling ambiguity
Why Just Eat Takeaway.com?
- Global Impact – Your work affects millions of transactions daily.
- Diverse, Collaborative Teams – You’ll mesh with talent across continents.
- Cutting-edge Challenges – Cutting edge tech stack and architecture creation.
- Employee-centric culture with growth mentorship programs.
Culture and Values
At JET, we’re building a customer-first culture. This means:
✔ Inclusion & Belonging – We celebrate all identities and perspectives. ✔ Career Growth – Career morsels like upskilling stipends (viduja internships, Hackathons). ✔ Team Collaboration – "We" results over individual awards. ✔ Learning & Innovation – We reward novel solutions and exploration.
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Fun, fast-paced, empowering. Live our values every day.
Next Steps
If you're ready to leverage your skills in a team of passionate operators building next-generation cloud solutions, apply now.
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