Senior DevOps Engineer

Requirements

• A track record of owning complex technical initiatives end-to-end, contributing to making architecture-level decisions and understanding their long-term consequences.
• Deep, hands-on expertise operating Kubernetes and container orchestration in production, including cluster scaling, upgrades, and multi-tenancy.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred), including networking, IAM, account structuring, and cost management.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform preferred) and building provisioning or automation frameworks that other engineers rely on.
• Solid software engineering skills (Go, Python, or similar) applied to building internal tooling and automation, not just operational scripting.
• Broader knowledge across supportive technologies (e.g. Kafka, gRPC, Postgres / MongoDB, Redis, CI / CD such as GitHub Actions) and the ability to weigh trade-offs between them for a given problem.
• Solid understanding of SRE principles, including incident response, fault-tolerant architecture, and capacity planning.
• Experience unblocking and mentoring other engineers (e.g. code / design reviews, knowledge sharing, or driving best practices), and willingness to contribute to hiring across interviewing, tech talks, etc.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills; this role works closely with many engineering teams, increasingly operating at global scale.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with GitOps tooling (e.g. Argo CD, Flux), progressive delivery, or service mesh technologies.
• Experience operating multi-cluster or multi-region Kubernetes environments at scale.
• GCP exposure, especially compute and networking aspects.
• Familiarity with cloud cost optimization / FinOps practices for cloud and Kubernetes workloads.
• Experience contributing to multi-org infrastructure unification efforts.
• Contributions to open-source infrastructure or platform engineering projects, especially in the CNCF ecosystem.

What you'll be doing

• Take ownership of complex infrastructure initiatives end-to-end, spanning Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, networking, and infrastructure-as-code frameworks - making most technical decisions within scope without needing oversight.
• Break initiatives down into executable work, identify dependencies, provide accurate estimates, and document project-level technical decisions and how infrastructure components interact.
• Design, deploy, and operate secure, scalable systems in AWS, and know when and how to pull in other teams to support cross-cutting initiatives.
• Independently plan and drive technical improvements to the compute and cloud platform, using data and clear success metrics to prioritize work.
• Build and own self-service tooling, automation, and Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks that let other engineering teams provision environments and infrastructure safely and consistently.
• Unblock other teams through code and design reviews, proactively answering questions, and sharing knowledge via guides, playbooks, and internal tech talks.
• Serve as a first responder during on-call rotations for core infrastructure, lead root cause analysis, and drive incident mitigation and follow-through.
• Drive team-wide quality objectives for the Infrastructure platform: reliability, operational readiness (alerting, dashboards, runbooks), and developer experience / productivity tooling.
• Act as a role model for other engineers by sharing constructive feedback, recognizing colleagues' contributions, and supporting hiring through interviewing and recruiting activities.
• Partner closely with platform teams across Wolt, Deliveroo, and DoorDash to align on shared standards, tooling, and the joint infrastructure roadmap.

Perks and Benefits

• Benefits differ by country, but may include healthcare, well-being, parental leave, pensions, generous annual leave allowances, and time off to support a charitable cause of your choice.
• Work in a technology-driven company with a small team making a large impact, offering autonomy, ownership, and a fast-paced environment for new ideas.
• Diversity and inclusion are prioritized at Deliveroo, ensuring a workplace that represents the world's diversity and provides equal opportunities for all individuals.