DevOps Engineer (Senior) - IFS Logistics

Location: Remote; must be based in the UK or the Netherlands. The team has clusters in London and Amsterdam.

Company

hirify.global develops AI-driven enterprise software, while hirify.global Logistics provides SaaS products for transport data, carrier spend management, and logistics execution.

What you will do

• Build observability across the Django API, data pipelines, and warehouse using metrics, logs, traces, and alerts.
• Improve GitLab CI/CD pipelines, merge-request review controls, production deployment safety, and weekly release cadence.
• Manage GCP cost attribution and reduce waste while preserving service quality.
• Develop reproducible, secure, and documented infrastructure with Terraform and Kubernetes.
• Strengthen Datastream, Pub/Sub, dbt, and BigQuery pipeline reliability through failure detection, freshness checks, replay paths, and ownership.
• Help shape incident management and on-call practices, converting recurring failures into automated safeguards.

Requirements

• Strong experience running production services on GCP.
• Practical experience operating and improving Kubernetes and Terraform infrastructure.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in GitLab or a similar platform.
• Evidence of improving metrics, logging, tracing, or alerting in a real system.
• Experience attributing cloud spend, identifying waste, and making engineering trade-offs.
• Experience operating data pipelines, including streaming ingestion, warehouse loads, dbt transformations, or similar workflows.
• Ability to challenge unsafe changes and define what must happen before release.
• Practical experience with AI coding tools such as Cursor or Claude, including providing context and verifying infrastructure changes.
• Ability to assess imperfect systems, prioritize improvements, and carry them through to production.

Nice to have

• Python experience sufficient to investigate or fix Django application issues.
• Security or compliance experience in an enterprise SaaS environment.
• Experience designing incident-management or on-call processes.
• BigQuery cost and performance tuning experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work with clusters of colleagues in London and Amsterdam.
• Flexible and hybrid work opportunities are supported alongside inclusive workplace experiences.
• The role supports a growing platform and closer collaboration with application and data engineers.
• The position includes production support, incident response, and on-call practice development.