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DevOps Engineer
Senior DevOps Engineer
Department: Platform Engineering Title: Senior DevOps Engineer Reporting To: Senior Technology Manager Location: London or Amsterdam Work Arrangement: Hybrid (3 days office, 2 days remote)
About the Role
At JET Platform Engineering, we’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer who can elevate our developer experience and push our developer platform to the next level.
We’re building the next generation of Platform Engineering, and we need someone to swim fast, react, and adapt—a problem-solver who thrives in a fast-paced environment and stays ahead of the latest technology.
If you have a track record of executing in production environments and delivering exceptional results with Python, cloud automation, and modern DevOps practices, we’d love to hear from you!
Key Responsibilities
- Planning & development of engineer-facing products and features
- Building scalable software components/services using Python
- Designing & managing cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure) and automation for high availability
- Optimizing applications for speed and scalability
- Creating & maintaining technical documentation (including runbooks)
- Collaborating globally with technical & business stakeholders
- Taking a proactive Agile approach and self-organising
- Supporting SaaS-grade reliability & uptime
Experience & Expertise
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Technical Skills
Deployment & Infrastructure
- Hands-on production experience as a Software Developer or DevOps/Platform Engineer
- Strong skills with Python (Object-Oriented, Design Patterns: SOLID, DRY)
- Cloud infrastructure expertise (AWS/GCP/Azure) + cross-cloud comfort
- Containerisation & Kubernetes (Oke, ECS, EKS) + **serverless tech (AWS Lambda, etc.)
- CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Azure DevOps, Jenkins)
- Scalable RESTful/GraphQL API design & performance tuning
- Git & version control (branching strategies, PR reviews, workflows)
- Monitoring systems (ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, CloudWatch)
Testing & Observability
- Testing-driven development (unit, integration, performance, load)
- Debugging & optimising complex distributed systems
- Incident response & postmortem documentation
Architecture & Collateral
- High-availability infrastructure design
- API design principles (security, caching, versioning)
- Documentation & automation (playbooks, runbooks, pipelines)
Personal Fit
- Career-curious, eager to continuously learn and bridge gaps
- Communicates efficiently across technical & product teams
- Hits the ground running in a target-driven, hyper-agile organisation
- Empowers others with design decisions, trade-offs, and best practices
Team & Culture
JET Customer League: Our Behaviours
At Just Eat Takeaway.com, everything becomes personal. Whether delivering a high-score moment for a gamified dinner or ensuring a rider sees their scheduled order like clockwork, we play to stay ahead. Our approach? Competitive. Fun. Customer-first.
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To earn long-term loyalty, we train our own internal coach—someone who values " hurting fast, rehabilitate faster, and keep winning. Always." Every where you see us, that drive spreads. Behind it all, a few core ** ways of working**: ⬜ Decide fast – Act even faster. Experiment without over-engineering. ⬜ Team moves fast – so have your voice, ideas and conviction. ⬜ High self-organising – execute now without micromanager coddles. ⬜ Customer success just uppermost – solving ‘why they’re not using us yet’.
Why Join JET?
Just Eat Takeaway.com brings distance, scale, and global variety to every team. Why? To share our vision, build fair collaborations, and drive customer-first results in tandem with world-class brands.
Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging
Honestly, no matter who you are—where you come from, how you express yourself—we build a full-team that recognises every ‘you.’ Confidently. Joyously. Whether your motivation comes from code crafting or scaling micro delivery zones, it’s your place here.
Interested in hearing more about life at JET? Career Site includes geek talks, team stories, and cultural deep-dives.
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