Staff DevOps Engineer
Hybrid
London, United Kingdom
Full Time
22-04-2025
Job Specifications
As the Staff DevOps Engineer, you will be a key player on the DevOps team servicing Loadsure’s product suite through building, testing and maintaining the critical infrastructure and tools allowing for the rapid development and release of software.
Primarily responsible for simplifying the development process of software to achieve Loadsure’s main engineering goals as the organisation continues to scale. The position will proactively work alongside the insurance and product teams to develop a successful user interface for our network of direct clients and brokers. You will be highly organised and comfortable building relationships and working with all levels of the firm. Stakeholder management and communication will be vital to the success of the role.
This position requires a self-driven, high-energy, professional who’s passionate about disrupting an industry and wants to be rewarded for their performance and contributions.
We believe that with a growth mindset, tech-first innovation, and focused execution, anything is possible. We value others’ insights and ideas to build a collaborative, entrepreneurial, and lighthearted environment.
Key Responsibilities;
Design, build and maintain a resilient, secure, and efficient immutable infrastructure to meet established business and operational goals
Automate deployment, monitoring, management, and incident response by building infrastructure as a code using Terraform
Manage and create CI/CD pipelines, configuration, and automation tools for infrastructure provisioning
Write and maintain runbooks for knowledge-driven automated processes
Manage and communicate capacity planning based on performance, usage, and utilization stats
Ensure system availability and business continuity by implementing redundant servers/services
Proactively research and propose the use of new concepts, processes, technologies, and tools
Manage cross-functional requirements working with Engineering, Product, Services, and other departments
Collaborate with developers to bring new features and services into production
Develop and improve operational practices and procedures
Proactively meet standards for information security and compliance
Skills and Qualifications;
Essential;
2+ years' experience as a Staff/Principal DevOps Engineer or similar Engineering role
8+ years experience in managing DevOps/Infrastructure environments
Experience maintaining production systems on GCP , AWS and/or Azure
Experience using infrastructure as code software such as Terraform
Experience in continuous integration practices & tools such as GitHub Actions, etc.
Experience in observability implementations using tools such as DataDog
Analytical and detail-oriented, aligned to the DORA principles
Excellent problem solving, communication, and teamwork skills
Excellent time management and organisational skills
Comfortable dealing with internal and external senior representatives
Self-starter and takes initiative
Effective listening, strong verbal and written communications skills
Must have outstanding interpersonal and problem solving skills
Thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth, rapidly changing technical environment
Desirable;
Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Experience in developing business critical applications
Experience in developing and operating large-scale cloud-based distributed applications
Experience of the compliance environment such as SOC 2 and/or ISO 27001:2022
The ability to continuously improve infrastructure “whilst in flight” and not only support greenfield solutions
Transportation or insurance industry experience
Enthusiastic about emerging technology and Insurtech
About Us;
We’ve combined groundbreaking AI and industry expertise to create a service that goes beyond conventional cargo insurance. This is holistic freight protection.
With trailblazing end-to-end InsurTech, our mission is simple: empower brokers to better serve the freight community, maximizing profits and minimizing losses for all.
At Loadsure, we celebrate the spirit of individuals and empower them to grow. Fostering a culture of personal freedom, mutual respect, and collaboration, we enable the professional success of each person, regardless of race, ethnicity, culture, nationality, religious belief, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, marital status, or disability. Understanding, communication, respect among all people: This is how we’re nurturing a diverse and inclusive workplace in which everyone can thrive.
We Strive for continuous growth and excellence in everything we do.
We Unite through collaboration, leveraging our diverse strengths to achieve common goals.
We Pioneer innovative solutions, embracing new technologies and forward-thinking approaches.
We Deliver outstanding results, ensuring reliability and quality in every project.
Why work for Loadsure?
Competitive salary
Fantastic company stock options
Remote working with great flexibility
25 annual leave days, in addition to our recognised national holidays
Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption/shared parental leave
Birthday day off
Subsidised gym/wellbeing membership
Strong healthcare coverage for employees and their families
A culture of work-life balance
A community that gives back
Engaging and collaborative work environment
An exciting opportunity to work with a talented team that’s passionate about what they do and believes in their product and people
Career development opportunities
Online learning platform
loadsure.net
About the Company
Loadsure is the award-winning InsurTech MGA that delivers Holistic Freight Protection to supply chain businesses and insurance brokers across the globe. Predicting and preventing loss, with actionable risk insights. Protecting the whole supply chain, with data-priced insurance products. Responding to and recovering from unavoidable losses, with transparent, automated claims. Know more
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