Job Description

About the Role:

We are looking for a DevOps & QA Automation Engineer to join our team during a pivotal architectural transformation. You will be directly responsible for building and maintaining robust CI/CD pipelines, integrating automated testing and validation, and driving best practices in release governance and infrastructure automation.

As we migrate from a fragmented set of tools to a productised platform, your work will enable high-confidence deployments, reduce risk, and ensure engineering discipline during rapid change.
This is a hands-on role requiring initiative, attention to detail, and comfort working across build systems, cloud infrastructure, and test environments.

This role is best suited to an engineer (3-5 years' experience) with a strong foundation in DevOps and a genuine interest in embedding quality throughout the software delivery lifecycle.

Key responsibilities

Designing and owning end-to-end CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions
Integrating and maintaining test automation into pipelines (unit, integration, system checks)
Supporting the engineering team to create unit tests, enforce test coverage, quality gates, and release readiness
Implementing environment provisioning, config-as-code, and infrastructure automation
Working with data and software teams to support secure, reproducible deployments of services and pipelines
Collaborating on the re-architecture initiative by helping define pipeline governance, release controls, and rollout safety mechanisms
Supporting the evolution of infrastructure and test-related standards and documentation
Participating in team ceremonies, reviews, and ongoing cross-functional collaboration

Skills and experience

Prior work in an early-stage or growth-stage startup environmen 3-5 years' experience in DevOps, QA automation, or platform engineering
Deep experience with CI/CD tooling -- ideally GitHub Actions
Proficiency in Python, Bash, or Go for automation scripting
Experience with infrastructure as code - SAM, AWS CDK
Familiarity with test automation frameworks (pytest, unittest, etc.)
Understanding of modern software delivery workflows and testing strategies
Experience with cloud environments (AWS preferred), including basic IAM, S3, and EC2
Knowledge of containerisation and orchestration (Docker, ECS, or Kubernetes)
Familiarity with relational databases and test data handling (we use AWS

RDS / MySQL)

Dashboarding and monitoring with AWS platform and tools

A pragmatic, reliability-focused mindset, with high attention to detail

Nice to haves

Experience embedding quality assurance into pipelines (test coverage

enforcement, flaky test detection, etc.)

Mobile app automated test technologies, particularly Android Java

Familiarity with system monitoring and alerting tooling

Exposure to data pipelines or scientific computing environments

Previous involvement in platform re-architecture or CI/CD transformation

projects

Experience building release governance or audit mechanisms

Prior work in an early-stage or growth-stage startup environments

Prior work in an early-stage or growth-stage startup environm

Prior work in an early-stage or growth-stage startup