
Dev Ops Engineer
London
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Smarkets is transforming the betting exchange space by delivering world-class technology and the best-priced markets in the industry. With over £29 billion in traded volume since 2010, we’ve built a product-led, transparent, and fair platform that challenges the norms of traditional betting.
As a Series B tech company, we pride ourselves on engineering excellence, lean product thinking, and scientific rigor. With a close-knit team and a passion for innovation, Smarkets is where top talent comes to make a real impact.
Now, we’re looking for a DevOps Engineer to help scale our infrastructure and empower our developers with streamlined, self-service tooling and operational excellence.
About the Role
You’ll join the DevOps Infrastructure Team, responsible for real-time distributed systems that power our trading engine-systems that are always-on, ultra-low latency, and demand resilience at scale.
You won’t just be building infrastructure-you’ll be crafting platform capabilities to streamline how engineers build, test, deploy, and run applications across our hybrid estate of self-hosted, co-located hardware and AWS cloud.
This is a role where infrastructure meets engineering productivity: part DevOps, part Platform, 100% mission-critical.
What You’ll Do
Platform Enablement: Design and maintain internal tooling and workflows that improve the developer experience across deployment pipelines, observability and testing environments.
Empower Developers (DevEx): Automate workflows, streamline CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab), and ensure fast, safe, and reliable deployments across environments.
Infrastructure Automation: Build, manage, and scale Kubernetes-based microservices infrastructure on AWS using Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code best practices.
Developer Experience: Collaborate closely with product engineers to provide reliable, low-friction paths for development, testing, and deployment.
Operational Excellence: Monitor, debug, and ensure the stability of our systems with robust alerting and logging using Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK.
System Reliability: Optimize performance and availability for high-throughput, low-latency services that power the betting exchange.
Collaborative Delivery: Participate in on-call rotations, incident reviews, and cross-functional projects with engineering and SRE teams.
Security & Compliance: Contribute to secure system design and operational practices that support industry-standard compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc).
What You Bring
2–4 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering roles.
Strong Linux systems administration background.
Proficiency in Python and Bash scripting.
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS (or other public clouds).
Familiarity with PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, and production-scale deployment.
Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI) and a passion for improving the build/deploy process.
A pragmatic mindset that balances ideal solutions with immediate business needs.
Curiosity and initiative to explore new technologies and bring fresh thinking into the team.
Bonus Points For
Exposure to Nix-based Build environments.
Understanding of self-hosted or hybrid infrastructure models.
Experience with ArgoCD, Backstage or internal developer portals.
Knowledge of Rust or C++ environments.
Interest in performance engineering and low-latency systems.
Our Stack
Languages: Python, Bash, Rust, NodeJS
Datastores: PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka
Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Nix, Jenkins, GitLab CI
Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Sentry
Our Values
Push to win
Make others better
Give a shit
Be a pro
Bring the energy
Our values are at the heart of everything that we do. We believe these are the fundamentals to ensure we are delivering what’s expected of us in the best way possible for ourselves and for those around us.
Benefits
We offer a competitive salary package and benefits, along with a dynamic and collaborative work environment. Your work with us will make an impact and your voice will be heard.
We are a diverse team with a strong work ethic and plenty of hunger to win. We have designed our benefits offering around Health, Wealth, Lifestyle and Development.
These include:
Stock options which vests over 4 years
Pension scheme - an impressive pension scheme via Aviva. We will match 6% if you choose the same
Health insurance
Fresh fruit and snacks provided in the office everyday! (tea, coffee and soft drinks also included)
We're a member of a cycle to work scheme
We want to continue to invest in all our employees and do so by providing a £1000 yearly education budget that can be used on courses, conferences, books or training
25 days paid holiday + bank holidays to enjoy - you have the choice to carry over 5 days to the next year!
Flexible working - we want to provide a hybrid model approach to working and provide you with 2 days a week working from home
20 days a year of global working - we provide the ability to work from anywhere in the world for up to 20 days a year
We will provide you lunch everyday in the office - you don't need to worry about what to make or buy for lunch as we have it sorted with top quality food served by our in-house chef Alex!
What happens next
We aim to have a simple and speedy hiring process and we want to make sure that we are right for you as much as the other way around.
CV application review - We will review it as quickly as possible
HackerRank Exercise - At home test to show off your skills
Let’s chat - Quick chat with our team about your experience and the role
Technical Interview - Live Technical Interview + Experience and Mindset Chat
In Office Interview - Lunch with other colleagues in the team + LT Chat
Our Perks
Pension
Pension
Training budget
Training budget
Incredible meals
Incredible meals
Further benefits
Further benefits
Pension
We’re not just matching your dedication — get up to a 6% pension match and watch your savings grow!
Training budget
Every employee gets £1,000 per year to spend on things like books, training courses and conferences.
Incredible meals
Food is big at Smarkets. Enjoy freshly prepared meals every day in our fantastic rooftop kitchen. Our team of in-house chefs use fresh and sustainable ingredients - lunch al’desko is officially banned!
Further benefits
Smarkets employees receive comprehensive private health insurance, stock options, enhanced parental leave, and more.