DevOps Engineer

Cosine group; Harrow; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology startup in Harrow is seeking a DevOps Engineer to own the core infrastructure that powers their innovative products. This role includes designing and managing Kubernetes clusters, implementing CI/CD pipelines, and enhancing reliability through established SLOs. Ideal candidates should have over 5 years of production infrastructure experience, particularly with Kubernetes and infrastructure as code tools like Terraform. This in-office position emphasizes collaboration and offers competitive compensation and equity options.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Equity options

30 days holiday

Dog-friendly office

Daily lunch provided

Pension plan

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating production infrastructure on major cloud platforms.
• Significant hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production.
• Strong experience with IaC tools (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi).
• Experience in incident management and on-call rotations.
• Strong scripting skills in a modern language (e.g., Python, Go).

Responsibilities

• Design and operate a Kubernetes-based platform for deployments.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for continuous delivery.
• Define SLOs and improve observability for services.
• Shape the networking and security models for infrastructure.
• Collaborate with product and research teams to align needs.

Skills

Production infrastructure management

Kubernetes expertise

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Scripting and programming

Observability tools setup

Collaboration in fast-paced environments

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Overview

Job title: Devops Engineer

Location: London; full in-office working as default

Start date: ASAP

Reports to: CTO

Compensation: £60 - 90k + Equity

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Cosine at a glance

At Cosine, we’re building autonomous AI engineers that plan, write, and ship code inside real development workflows. Cosine is designed for on-premise and virtual private cloud (VPC) deployments, including fully air-gapped environments. We build our agent tooling entirely in-house and post-train open-source models to deliver reliable, enterprise-grade coding performance in security-critical settings. In 2024, Cosine achieved a 72% score on OpenAI’s SWE-Lancer benchmark, placing us among the strongest real-world software-engineering AI systems evaluated. YC-backed and well-funded, Cosine was founded by experienced operators focused on building dependable, production-grade AI.

This role is based in our Hoxton office, five days a week, because close collaboration, fast feedback, and shared context matter for the problems we’re solving.

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The role

We’re looking for a Devops / Senior Platform / Infra Engineer to own the core infrastructure that powers Cosine’s products — from Kubernetes and deployment pipelines to networking and platform services.

You’ll design and run the “paved road” that our engineers, researchers, and customers build on: reliable Kubernetes clusters, fast and safe CI/CD, solid observability, and hardened environments for demanding enterprise and on-prem deployments. You’ll also wear a classic “DevOps/SRE” hat: thinking in SLOs, running incident response, and keeping us up even as we move quickly.

This is a high-ownership role at a fast-paced, venture-backed Silicon Valley startup. You’ll work directly with founding engineers and leadership, and your decisions will materially shape how we build and ship products.

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What You’ll Do

• Own core infrastructure
• Design, operate, and evolve our Kubernetes-based platform (EKS or similar), including cluster topology, node groups, autoscaling, and multi-environment isolation.
• Manage supporting cloud resources: container registries, load balancers, queues, caches, and data infra needed to run our APIs and agents.
• Build the deployment & tooling layer
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for image builds and infra rollouts (e.g. Pulumi/Terraform + Helm/Docker).
• Implement safe rollout strategies (blue/green, canary, staged rollouts) and fast rollback paths.
• Build internal tools and abstractions that make it easy for product teams to self-serve infra safely.
• Own reliability & operations (SRE-ish)
• Define and track SLOs/SLIs for key services (latency, error rates, availability).
• Improve our observability stack (metrics, logs, traces, alerts) so issues are obvious, actionable, and debuggable.
• Participate in the on-call rotation, lead incident response when needed, and drive blameless post-mortems and fixes.
• Shape networking & security
• Design and maintain networking: VPCs, subnets, ingress/egress, service meshes / L7 routing, DNS, and TLS.
• Implement least-privilege access via IAM, secure secret management, and hardened configurations for multi-tenant and isolated customer environments.
• Help design patterns for secure enterprise and on-prem / regulated deployments.
• Partner with product & research
• Work closely with application, ML, and research teams to understand their needs and translate them into reusable infra building blocks.
• Provide guidance on “how to run this in production” — capacity planning, failure modes, and operational readiness reviews.

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What We’re Looking For

• Have strong experience
• 5+ years building and operating production infrastructure on a major cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Significant hands-on experience running Kubernetes in production (EKS/GKE/AKS or self-managed):
• Cluster upgrades, autoscaling, node group design, and multi-env setups.
• Helm or similar for packaging services.
• Think in infrastructure-as-code
• Deep experience with IaC tools (Pulumi, Terraform, CDK, or similar).
• Comfortable managing infra changes via code review, CI, and automated rollouts.
• Care deeply about reliability
• Have owned the uptime and performance of user-facing systems.
• Comfortable participating in (and improving) on-call rotations and incident management.
• Experience setting up / tuning observability (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, etc.).
• Build great tooling & abstractions
• You’ve built internal tools, libraries, or platforms on top of cloud providers so product teams can move faster with fewer foot-guns.
• You think about developer experience and “golden paths,” not just raw infra.
• Are comfortable in code
• Strong scripting and programming skills in at least one modern language (e.g. TypeScript, Go, Python).
• Happy to dive into app code when needed to debug a production issue or improve an integration.
• Have the startup mindset
• Enjoy working in a fast-moving environment with evolving priorities and incomplete specs.
• Bias toward pragmatic solutions: ship something small, measure, iterate.
• Communicate clearly, give/receive direct feedback, and collaborate across functions.

Nice To Have (Not Required)

• Experience with:
• AWS primitives like EKS, ECS/Fargate, ECR, SQS, ElastiCache/Redis.
• Argo CD or other GitOps tools for Kubernetes.
• On-prem, air-gapped, or regulated industry deployments (e.g. finance, healthcare).
• AI/ML infrastructure (GPU workloads, model hosting, feature stores).
• Prior experience as an early infra / platform hire at a startup.

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Cosine is an equal opportunity employer

Cosine is an equal opportunity employer. We value diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and ways of thinking, and we’re committed to creating an inclusive and respectful workplace. We encourage applications from anyone who meets the role requirements, even if you don’t meet every single qualification. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the hiring process, we’re happy to discuss them.

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Compensation, Benefits & Ways Of Working

We’re an in-office team, five days a week, by design. We believe the work we’re doing benefits from being together, collaborating closely, and building shared context.

What You Can Expect

• Competitive salary, benchmarked to the market
• Equity / share options, so you share in the upside you help create
• 30 days’ holiday + bank holidays
• Genuine 9–5 working hours — we don’t expect late nights or weekend work
• Work hard in the office, collaborate closely, and switch off properly
• Dog-friendly office — bring your dog to work
• Daily lunch provided
• Monthly team breakfasts
• Monthly socials
• Pension
• High-quality equipment to do your best work

We care about focus, sustainability, and doing great work — not performative overwork. We value people who show up, contribute thoughtfully, collaborate well with their colleagues, and then go home.

This role won’t suit everyone. But if you want structure, clarity, strong collaboration, and a team that takes both the work and work-life balance seriously, it’s a great place to be.

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Agency & Data Protection Notice

To comply with UK GDPR and our internal data-protection and equal-opportunity obligations, we only accept candidate applications and agency submissions via our Applicant Tracking System (ATS). This ensures appropriate privacy notices, lawful processing, auditability, and consistent retention controls. Any CVs or candidate details received outside the ATS (including via email, Slack, or direct message) will be treated as unsolicited, will not be considered as part of the recruitment process, and will not give rise to any fee or payment obligation.