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DevOps Engineer

encordLondonEPD
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Salary
Not listed
Job type
Full-time
Experience
Senior · 4+ yrs
Posted
23 Sept 2026
Status
Open · checked 7d ago

About this role

Based in London, the DevOps Engineer role involves joining the platform engineering team to build and operate core infrastructure for an AI data platform. This position suits an experienced engineering professional with a background in cloud infrastructure, automation, and reliability who wants to work in a collaborative in-office environment.

Role Overview

The DevOps Engineer at Encord works within the platform engineering group based in the London office. The individual contributes to the development and maintenance of cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and observability systems to support large-scale AI data operations.

Key Responsibilities

Own and improve deployment pipelines while partnering with developers to streamline releases and support infrastructure changes.
Design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services, including Kubernetes clusters and storage at scale using infrastructure-as-code.
Build automation and internal tooling to enhance developer productivity and reduce manual tasks.
Profile and optimize services handling data pipelines while performing capacity planning for storage and compute workloads.
Define service level indicators, objectives, and agreements for critical services alongside building alerting and incident response processes.
Instrument services with logging, metrics, and distributed tracing to ensure observability before production release.

Requirements

Four or more years of practical experience in platform engineering, reliability engineering, or DevOps within a production setting.
Background in constructing and managing deployment automation and continuous integration pipelines at scale.
Experience utilizing configuration management and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi.
Fundamentals in creating and sustaining resilient distributed or high-performance systems.
Operational background with containerized workloads and Kubernetes in cloud environments like AWS or GCP.
Knowledge of operating systems, networking principles, and database technologies.
Familiarity with observability concepts including metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting.

Skills and Tools

Python
TypeScript
React
Kubernetes
Google Cloud Platform
Amazon Web Services
Terraform
Pulumi
Prometheus
Grafana
OpenTelemetry
PyTorch
CUDA
Ray

Salary and Benefits

Competitive salary, commission, and equity in the company
Twenty-five days of annual leave plus UK public holidays
Annual budget designated for learning and development
Travel opportunities for customer visits, conferences, and events across the UK and Europe
Company lunches provided twice a week
Monthly social gatherings and bi-annual team offsite events

About the Company

Encord provides a universal data layer for artificial intelligence that enables teams to curate, index, annotate, evaluate, and train models throughout the AI lifecycle. The company supports over three hundred AI teams, counts organizations such as AXA and Woven by Toyota among its users, and has raised sixty million dollars in Series C funding from investors including Y Combinator and Wellington Management.

How to Apply

Candidates should apply directly on the official Encord careers page.

Skills and tech stack

Questions candidates ask

Where is the position located?

The position is located in London, with the team working primarily from the office four or more days per week.

How many years of experience are required?

The role requires four or more years of practical DevOps, site reliability, or platform engineering experience in a production environment.

What cloud platforms are used for infrastructure?

Infrastructure is maintained on Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services.

What benefits are included with the job?

Benefits include competitive salary, commission, equity, 25 days of annual leave plus public holidays, a learning and development budget, team lunches, monthly socials, and bi-annual offsites.

Ready to apply?

The application is on the official encord careers page.

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