DevOps Engineer (Linux, PHP)

Description

The company is a data-driven creative technology agency that builds digital tools for socially responsible organisations, mostly nonprofits, and works only with open-source products.

The team is based in London with staff in over 12 countries. Clients include the British Toy and Hobby Association, World Heart Federation, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Wikimedia, Carers UK, Disability Rights UK, Epping Forest and Police Scotland, spanning membership, nonprofit and government organisations.

You will be one of several DevOps engineers, working with product owners, developers and QA to shape how deployment tools and processes are set up.

The team is process-driven and keeps refining how it works to keep delivering high-quality service to clients and the wider sector.

The role gives you exposure to a range of open-source projects for the not-for-profit sector, and your work will have a real impact.

Responsibilities

• Build and run production infrastructure and mission-critical systems.
• Coordinate with development, QA, product owners and other stakeholders so the infrastructure meets their needs.
• Keep up with security best practices and build security into every layer of the stack.
• Monitor live environments and troubleshoot infrastructure faults.
• Advise development teams on infrastructure architecture.
• Research new infrastructure technologies and solutions.

Requirements

• 4+ years of Linux administration.
• 3+ years administering web servers and PHP applications, with NGINX preferable.
• 3+ years working with cloud platforms, mainly AWS, including 2+ years using infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
• 3+ years of shell scripting, with Bash or PowerShell preferable.
• 3+ years with networking fundamentals: DNS, TLS and certificates, load balancing, VPN and VPC, and CDN and WAF services such as Cloudflare.
• 2+ years building automation with Ansible.
• 2+ years running containers in production with Docker.
• 2+ years with monitoring and observability tools such as New Relic or Grafana/Loki, or equivalent, handling production incidents from triage through root-cause analysis and post-mortems.
• 1+ years running a container orchestration platform such as Docker Swarm, with Kubernetes an advantage.
• Comfortable using AI developer tools such as Claude Code to speed up your work, and able to carefully review and validate AI-generated solutions, code and configuration before they ship.
• Good Git skills.
• Desirable: 1+ years of CI/CD experience with Jenkins or GitHub Actions, including pipeline scripting in Groovy.
• Desirable: 1+ years of database administration, MySQL or equivalent.
• Desirable: 1+ years of Drupal administration.
• Desirable: familiarity with Jira or similar project management and issue tracking tools.
• Desirable: good grasp of Agile methods, particularly Scrum, and the ability to work in an Agile development environment.
• Strong collaboration skills, both written and verbal.
• You write clear documentation and take pride in doing it well.
• A can-do attitude and a drive to make things happen.
• You are a team player who enjoys collaborating and brainstorming with colleagues.

Conditions

Permanent position.

Hybrid, with an office in Shoreditch, London, or fully remote.

Flexible working hours.

Applications are only considered from people living in the EU or in the non-EU countries on the European Commission's adequacy list.

Benefits

• Paid annual leave.
• A day off for your birthday.
• Time off to volunteer.
• A wellness day.
• An allowance toward medical insurance.
• Paid time away for personal growth and study.
• Remote working.