Senior DevOps Engineer - Be part of the foundational team
Senior DevOps Engineer (Hybrid)
The opportunity - Be part of the foundational team.As we scale our EMEA engineering operations, this role will be hybrid-based, assigned to our UK leadership team, and focused on supporting our UK-based clients. While you’ll enjoy the flexibility of working on a hybrid basis, you’ll be closely aligned with our UK delivery teams and client stakeholders, ensuring time-zone overlap and seamless collaboration.
Importantly, you’ll be joining us at a pivotal stage, helping to build the foundational team that will drive our growth. This is a unique opportunity to shape and develop a world-class capability and play a key role in establishing Simple Machines as a centre of excellence across the region.
About Simple Machines
Simple Machines is a leading independent boutique technology firm with a global presence, including teams in London, Sydney, San Francisco, and New Zealand. We specialise in creating technology solutions at the intersection of data, AI, machine learning, data engineering, and software engineering.
Our mission is to help enterprises, technology companies, and governments better connect with and understand their organisations, their people, their customers, and citizens. We are a team of creative engineers and technologists dedicated to unleashing the potential of data in new and impactful ways.
We design and build bespoke data platforms and unique software products, create and deploy intelligent systems, and bring engineering expertise to life by transforming data into actionable insights and tangible outcomes.
We engineer data to life™
Key Responsibilities- Own and optimise CI/CD pipelines to ensure reliable, scalable, and secure software delivery.
- Design and implement automated deployment processes across multiple environments.
- Deploy infrastructure-as-code using tools such as Terraform
- Build and maintain monitoring and alerting to identify issues.
- Develop and implement fast rollback strategies to minimise downtime and risk during releases.
- Collaborate with developers, QA, and operations teams.
- Continuously evaluate and improve system reliability, scalability, and performance.
- Must have full working rights for Poland - Sponsorship is not available.
- Reside close to Warsaw to attend team meetings in person.
- Hybrid 1-2 days per week in the office
- These are FTE (Full time permanent roles)
Requirements
Skills & Experience- Strong written and verbal English
- Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, or similar role.
- Strong expertise with CI/CD tooling e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps.
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms e.g., AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
- Solid background in containerisation and orchestration e.g., Docker, Kubernetes.
- Experience implementing monitoring and alerting solutions.
- Knowledge of deployment strategies, including canary, blue-green, and rollback approaches.
- Strong scripting or programming skills including Python, Bash, or similar.
- Excellent problem-solving skills with a proactive, automation-first mindset.
- Experience with security automation and DevSecOps practices.
- Familiarity with feature flags and progressive delivery.
- Exposure to event-driven architectures and modern microservices patterns.
- Experience in high-growth consulting or SaaS environments.
- Be part of a fast growing global software / data consulting company
- Join as one of the founding team members - Help shape the region
- Health and Wellbeing Allowance - 6,000 złoty per year
- Training & Conferences - 7,000 złoty per year
- Certifications - 12,000 złoty per year
- Equipment Allowance - 7,000 złoty
- 25 days annual leave