Senior DevOps Engineer

The Financial Times (FT) is one of the world’s leading business news and information organisations. We are recognised globally for our authority, integrity and accuracy. We provide a broad range of essential services, including news, comment, data and analysis, to the growing audience of internationally minded business people.

We believe the Financial Times is a great place to work. Our technical stack is modern and forward-looking, built on cloud-native, microservices architectures and a mix of open source and commercial technologies. Our product development practices are equally progressive - data-driven, customer-focused, and empowering engineers to make meaningful contributions. Engineers have the autonomy to choose appropriate tools and influence how we build and operate systems. Importantly, we also prioritise a healthy work-life balance.

Position Summary 

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join the Product & Technology department of a growing business and globally recognised brand.

Working within teams based in Sofia and in collaboration with colleagues in London, you will play a key role in building, maintaining, and evolving the infrastructure that underpins FT Core platforms. This includes provisioning, maintaining, and upgrading systems in AWS, as well as working extensively with Kubernetes and related tooling.

You will contribute to the design and operation of reliable, scalable platforms that support business-critical capabilities. This role suits someone comfortable navigating an evolving technical landscape, who enjoys improving systems and processes, and contributing to shared engineering knowledge.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with team members and provide support within your area of expertise
• Manage and evolve the team’s cloud infrastructure (primarily in AWS)
• Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines
• Contribute to the design of platform architecture, tooling, and release processes used across Product & Technology
• Support provisioning, maintenance, and upgrades of infrastructure and platform components
• Contribute to company-wide processes, frameworks, and engineering best practices

Candidate Profile: 

Essential

• Strong written and spoken English
• Solid Linux knowledge (intermediate or higher)
• Experience with AWS cloud services
• 5+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer or in a similar role
• Proactive mindset with strong ownership and initiative

Desirable

• Experience with containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS/ECS, Kafka/MSK)
• Experience managing Kubernetes manifests (Helm, Kustomize, etc.)
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (CircleCI, Jenkins, GitLab CI, etc.)
• Familiarity with monitoring tools (Prometheus stack, AWS CloudWatch, Grafana)
• Experience with logging solutions (Fluentd, Fluent Bit, Splunk)
• Experience with secret management (Vault, Sealed Secrets, Doppler, etc.)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation tools (Cloudformation, Terraform, Ansible, eksctl etc.)
• Bash scripting skills

Would be considered an advantage

• Deeper experience with the Prometheus ecosystem (Prometheus, Thanos, Alertmanager, Grafana)
• Networking knowledge
• Experience with Service Mesh technologies
• Experience with DNS management (Route53 or similar)

What’s in it for you?

• Annual bonus scheme
• 25 days paid leave
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program
• Life Insurance
• Enhanced Parental Leave policy
• Food Allowance
• Multisport Card
• Comprehensive in-house training, and external training programs (subject to approval)

Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion 

We believe in the power of unique perspectives and want all voices in our organisation to be heard, respected and valued. A supportive workplace is one where employees feel they can be themselves and operate to their full potential. We are committed to removing barriers for everyone, with a focus on addressing those faced by underrepresented groups.

Accessibility

We are a disability confident employer and Valuable 500 signatory.

Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments/personalisation as part of the application process or to enable you to attend an interview. If you would like to discuss your requirements or have any questions, email talent@ft.com and a member of our team will be happy to help.

Further information

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Candidates should be aware that the use of AI throughout the application process may be monitored to ensure a fair and transparent hiring process for all.

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