Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement AWS cloud infrastructure, writing clean and maintainable Infrastructure as Code for repeatable, auditable deployments across environments.
• Drive reliability, scalability, security, observability, and cost efficiency of AWS infrastructure.
• Provide mentorship to other DevOps engineers, sharing expertise and raising engineering quality across the team.
• Develop and maintain robust and effective CI/CD pipelines.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure issues, ensuring minimal impact on business operations.
• Explore and evaluate new technologies, tools, and patterns that improve platform reliability and delivery pace.
• Partner with Data Engineering to support platform infrastructure (AWS, Databricks, Snowflake).

About You:

Requirements:

• Strong hands-on AWS infrastructure experience, including IAM, VPCs, compute, containers, load balancing, storage, security, resilience, and cost optimization.
• Hands-on experience deploying and operating applications on Kubernetes in production, including Helm/manifests, ingress, configuration/secrets, observability, and troubleshooting live workloads.
• Proficient with Infrastructure as Code, especially Terraform, with experience building maintainable, reusable modules and environment patterns.
• Solid production networking knowledge: TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, BGP, routing, subnets, NAT, firewalls/security groups, VPN/private connectivity, load balancers, and practical troubleshooting.
• Experience operating cloud infrastructure in regulated environments (e.g., GDPR, ISO 27001, SOC 2).
• Experience designing observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions for distributed systems.
• Strong software engineering ability beyond basic scripting. Ideally someone who has contributed to larger software projects or built maintainable platform/backend tooling in a language such as Python, Go, Java, TypeScript, or similar.
• Comfortable using modern AI-assisted engineering workflows, including agentic coding tools and LLM-based automation. Familiarity with concepts such as MCP servers, tool-calling, RAG/vector search, embeddings, and AI-assisted platform operations.
• Working knowledge of databases and data platforms, including SQL databases such as PostgreSQL/MySQL and exposure to NoSQL or distributed data stores.
• Track record of independently scoping and delivering complex infrastructure projects end-to-end.
• Experience mentoring engineers and sharing technical expertise across a team.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Nice-to-haves:

• Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Security, or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer).
• Databricks and/or Snowflake infrastructure experience.
• Kafka operations or other event streaming platforms.
• Experience on infrastructure modernization or migration programs.
• FinTech, RegTech, or financial services background.

Why Join Us?

• Work Across Disciplines: You won't be confined to a single track - you will develop a broader skillset across our capabilities and offerings.
• Solve Problems that Matter: Work on complex challenges, where your thinking, analysis, and execution have real impact.
• Flat, Visible, Collaborative: We keep the structure flat, so you can collaborate directly with senior leaders and experienced specialists. Your work is visible, your perspectives are valued, and you will see the impact of your contributions every day.
• A Place for Builders: This is a great place for people who enjoy driving results and taking ownership. If you are driven to add value and help grow our business, you will enjoy a rewarding experience that recognises your contributions.

Perks & Benefits:

• Private Medical Insurance (via AXA): includes mental health, dental, vision, and private GP access
• Life Insurance - 4× salary (via Unum)
• Unum’s Help@Hand: includes GP access, medical second opinions, physiotherapy, lifestyle coaching, savings and discounts, mental health support, bereavement counselling, and cancer support services for you, your partner, and your child(ren)
• Salary sacrifice childcare and nursery scheme (via YellowNest)
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced parental leave (maternity & paternity)
• Professional qualification sponsorship
• Accelerated career progression based on readiness and performance, not tenure or time spent in role
• Holiday entitlement increases with tenure
• Flexible hours with core collaboration time
• Paid volunteering leave
• Gym & fitness discounts
• Bi-annual socials
• Office snacks and drinks
• Interest-based working groups to collaborate and innovate

Novatus’ Equal Opportunities Statement:

Novatus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions are made based on business needs, role requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, age, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, socioeconomic background, disability, or any other characteristic protected under the Equality Act 2010.

We maintain a workplace culture that is inclusive, respectful, and supportive. Our recruitment and selection processes are designed to ensure fairness and consistency for all candidates.

Reasonable adjustments are available throughout the application and interview process, and candidates are encouraged to contact Human Resources to discuss any specific requirements.

This commitment is embedded in all aspects of our employment practices, including recruitment, compensation, professional development, promotion, and workplace conduct.