Foundation Partners
Lead DevOps Engineer
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Lead DevOps Engineer
Lead DevOps Engineer
📍 Central London (Hybrid, 2–3 days/week) | 💰 Up to £150,000 | 🚀 Just out of seed
The opportunity
This is a rare shot to join right at the inflection point of an AI-driven operating system development for a security-conscious industry. A team of 15 (Founders with exceptional, well-known backgrounds) is building a unified intelligence layer that connects evidence, reasoning, and action across complex, high-stakes workflows. The systems must hold up under real-world pressure.
It’s an early yet senior leveraging position—you’ll shape the company’s DevOps foundation, working alongside operators from demanding enterprise AI environments.
Your systems will power security-conscious, compliance-bound enterprises, requiring the same trustworthiness as the AI it supports.
What You’ll Own
- GitOps deployment backbone (Argo CD) to enable safe, continuous deployments across many clusters
- Kubernetes on AWS (EKS), spanning an enterprise fleet of production environments
- Infrastructure-as-code (IaC) in Terraform/OpenTofu + Terragrunt as the single source of truth for everything the company runs
- Multi-tenant & isolation:
- Deploying fully isolated, compliant environments per customer, each with its own cluster and data plane
- Ensuring secure, reliable isolated deployments (the most demanding part of the role)
- Security & compliance:
- Secrets management, access controls, and infrastructure hardening
- Maintaining audit-grade controls customers expect
- Observability:
- Setting up telemetry, metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerting
- Ensuring a complex, distributed system remains transparent and performant
- Reliability & incident response:
- Crafting proactive monitoring, runbooks, and response protocols to protect customer trust
- CI/CD & release automation:
- Driving high-throughput shipping cadence without sacrificing quality
- Developer experience (DevEx):
- Making smooth, fast deployments and debugging accessible for engineers
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Who We’re Looking For
The ideal candidate is a hands-on Senior/Lead (or above) DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineer with a track record of owning foundational DevOps infrastructure—not just managing teams, but building it directly.
You bring:
- 5–6+ years in DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE, or Infrastructure
- Ownership of production systems, especially in multi-tenant, high-security environments
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes, AWS (or another major cloud), GitOps, and IaC
- A keen sense of balance—when to lean on tooling vs. human process—with minimal layers of complexity
- «No-code-please’ intensity—you prefer code, not just architectures
- High-bar experience from FAANG, Anthropic, OpenAI, Palantir, or elite AI startups—you’ve built world-class systems before
- Hands-on mindset—you deploy, operate, and fix, not just manage
- Tradeoff judgment: speed, security, cost, reliability all matter at once—you’ve nobiledged that summit
- Security/compliance rigor: Experience with SOC2, HIPAA, or similar—controls = strength, not bureaucracy
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Why Join?
- Foundational role: Join early enough to build the backbone for a scaling 15-person team with large-seed funding
- Full ownership: You’re not one among many DevOps engineers—you’re the DevOps engineers
- Flexibility: Hybrid (2–3 days/week), central London location, energetic in-person culture
- Competitive pay: Up to ÂŁ150,000, for high responsibility and autonomy
This is a high-stakes, high-impact role: faster than a typical pace, direct feedback, dynamic leadership responsibilities—where you must go where the urgent work arrives, even if it’s unglamorous.
You may not be looking for a 9–5. But if you thrive on crafting trustworthy infrastructure and unleashing adaptability, you’ll fit here.
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