Lead DevOps Engineer (AI Early Stage Startup) at Foundation Partners | London, England, GB | Rezi

Lead DevOps Engineer (AI Early Stage Startup) at Foundation Partners

Lead DevOps Engineer (AI Early Stage Startup)

Foundation Partners · London, England, GB

4 weeks ago

Lead DevOps Engineer (AI Early Stage Startup)

Foundation Partners · London, England, GB

a month ago
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About the Role

Own secure, multi-tenant infrastructure end-to-end, from GitOps to compliance controls, in a hands-on, fast-paced role shaping one of the most ambitious applications of AI today.

Responsibilities

  • Own the GitOps deployment backbone on Argo CD for continuous and safe shipping across multiple clusters.
  • Manage Kubernetes on AWS (EKS) across production environments.
  • Implement infrastructure-as-code using Terraform/OpenTofu and Terragrunt.
  • Establish multi-tenant, per-customer isolation with fully isolated, compliant environments.
  • Maintain security and compliance posture, including secrets management, access controls, and infrastructure hardening.
  • Implement and manage observability tools for telemetry, metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerting.
  • Ensure reliability, manage incident response, and develop operational runbooks.
  • Automate CI/CD and release processes.
  • Enhance developer experience for efficient deployment and debugging.

Requirements

  • Minimum of 4 years in DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure.
  • Experience owning production systems, including multi-tenant or customer-specific environments.
  • Deep fluency with Kubernetes, a major cloud provider (AWS preferred), GitOps, and infrastructure-as-code.
  • Proven ability to balance speed, security, cost, and reliability.
  • Experience operating under formal security or compliance regimes (SOC2, HIPAA, or similar) is a plus.
  • Hands-on approach with no interest in a purely architectural role.
  • Ability to explain complex tradeoffs simply and avoid over-engineering.

Skills

  • GitOps
  • Argo CD
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • EKS
  • Terraform
  • OpenTofu
  • Terragrunt
  • Infrastructure-as-code
  • Multi-tenancy
  • Secrets management
  • Access controls
  • Infrastructure hardening
  • Observability
  • Telemetry
  • Metrics
  • Logging
  • Tracing
  • Dashboards
  • Alerting
  • CI/CD
  • Release automation
  • Developer experience

Location

  • Central London

Work Type

  • Hybrid
  • 2-3 days/week

Experience Level

  • Lead
  • Senior

Salary/Compensations

  • Up to £150,000

About the Company

  • A fast-scaling AI startup that has just closed its seed round.
  • Building an AI operating system for a demanding, security-conscious industry.
  • Developing a unified intelligence layer that connects evidence, reasoning, and action.
  • The founding team has experience deploying production AI in demanding enterprise environments.
  • The company operates in a high-stakes domain ripe for transformation.
  • Systems are built for security-conscious, compliance-bound enterprises.
  • The team is currently 15 people.