Lead DevOps Engineer (AI)

Location: Remote within the EU or UK; two days per week in the London office for candidates within a one-hour commute of London (Soho)

Salary: £110,000–£130,000 plus equity and private medical

Company

Build the core platform behind modern drug discovery by combining scientific evidence, reasoning, and decision-making across the drug development lifecycle for highly regulated pharmaceutical enterprises.

What you will do

• Own how the platform deploys, operates, secures, and scales across core infrastructure and isolated customer environments.
• Build and operate a GitOps deployment backbone with Argo CD across multiple Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS.
• Maintain Terraform/OpenTofu and Terragrunt infrastructure as the single source of truth.
• Provision fully isolated, compliant environments for each pharmaceutical customer, including dedicated clusters and data planes.
• Manage secrets, access controls, infrastructure hardening, observability, incident response, operational runbooks, CI/CD, and release automation.
• Improve developer experience by making deployments and debugging fast and straightforward.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure.
• Experience owning production systems, ideally including multi-tenant or customer-specific environments.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes, a major cloud provider with AWS preferred, GitOps, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Ability to make sound complexity trade-offs and explain technical decisions clearly.
• Hands-on approach; this is not a purely architectural role.
• Track record of balancing delivery speed, security, cost, and reliability.
• Experience in high-performing engineering environments and consistently high personal standards.

Nice to have

• Experience with formal security or compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, HIPAA, GxP, or similar.

Culture & Benefits

• High-intensity, high-impact work in a fast-moving team with direct feedback.
• Responsibilities may grow beyond the formal title, including hands-on operational work.
• Focus on ownership and rapid growth rather than a nine-to-five role.
• Equity and private medical coverage.