{"id":520,"date":"2026-09-26T02:10:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T01:10:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T23:00:00","slug":"devops-engineer-encord-e7a6a","status":"publish","type":"job_listing","link":"https:\/\/africantalents.online\/blog\/poste\/devops-engineer-encord-e7a6a\/","title":{"rendered":"DevOps Engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>About us<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Encord is the universal data layer for AI that helps 300+ AI teams train and run models on the right data. Our platform indexes, curates, annotates, and evaluates data across the full AI lifecycle, from development through production.<\/p>\n<div style=\"min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Trusted by Woven by Toyota, AXA, UiPath, Zipline, and more. We&rsquo;re an ambitious team of 100+ working at the frontier of AI and have raised $60M in Series C funding from Wellington Management, CRV, Next47 and Y Combinator.<\/p>\n<div style=\"min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>The role<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">We&rsquo;re looking for a DevOps Engineer with 4+ years of experience to join our growing platform engineering team in London. You&rsquo;ll be embedded in the teams building and operating Encord&rsquo;s core infrastructure, ensuring our platform is performant, reliable, observable, and scalable. You&rsquo;ll drive a culture of automation, performance, and resilience through individual contributions and collaboration with multiple squads.<\/p>\n<div style=\"min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>What You&rsquo;ll Do<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>CI\/CD &amp; Deployment<\/strong> Own and continuously improve deployment pipelines; partner closely with developers to review infrastructure changes, streamline release processes, and champion DevOps best practices across the engineering group.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Infrastructure &amp; Cloud<\/strong> Design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure on GCP and AWS; manage Kubernetes clusters, networking, and storage at petabyte scale, with infrastructure-as-code as the default.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Automation &amp; Tooling<\/strong> Drive developer productivity by building, guiding, and reviewing automation and internal tooling efforts across the engineering group; eliminate manual toil wherever it exists.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Performance &amp; Capacity<\/strong> Profile and optimise services handling large-scale data pipelines; perform capacity planning for storage and compute-intensive workloads. Work with squads to establish performance benchmarks and expectations.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Reliability &amp; Availability<\/strong> Define and own SLIs\/SLOs\/SLAs for critical services; build alerting, runbooks, and incident response processes; lead postmortems with a blameless culture.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Observability<\/strong> Instrument services with distributed tracing, logging, and metrics (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, GCP Dashboards or similar); build infrastructure, define best practices, and work with each squad to ensure every service is observable before it goes to production.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>What We&rsquo;re Looking For<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">4+ years of hands-on DevOps, platform engineering, or SRE experience in a production environment.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Strong experience building and maintaining CI\/CD pipelines and deployment automation at scale.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Proven experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi) and configuration management.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Strong fundamentals in designing, building, and maintaining resilient distributed and\/or high performance systems.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerised workloads in cloud environments (GCP and\/or AWS).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Solid understanding of networking, operating systems, and database technologies.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Experience with observability fundamentals metrics, logs, traces, and alerting.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Tech stack<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">We are technology agnostic at Encord and not looking for experience across all of these \u2014 as long as you&rsquo;re open to learning, please apply.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Backend:<\/strong> Python<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Frontend:<\/strong> TypeScript and React<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Deployment:<\/strong> Kubernetes<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Infrastructure:<\/strong> GCP<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Machine learning:<\/strong> PyTorch, CUDA, Ray<\/p>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\"><strong>Why Encord<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"min-height:1.5em\">\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Competitive salary, commission, and meaningful equity in a high-growth startup<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Strong in-person culture \u2014 most of the team works from our London office 4+ days\/week<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">25 days annual leave + UK public holidays<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"min-height:1.5em\">Annual learning &amp; 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