Overview

Senior DevOps Engineer role at Freetrade — London, Hybrid. Compensation: £75,000 - £125,000 / year.

Freetrade’s mission is to become the default place to invest. Investing has been too complicated and expensive for too long, keeping millions from making the most of their savings. We’re changing that. We’re building our team and looking for people who are excited to reshape how our customers invest and grow their wealth. This year, we’re accelerating our roadmap and taking our products to the next level, including features like mutual funds, bonds, and family investment tools, and exploring how we can leverage AI to deliver an even better experience for our customers.

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to work in a newly formed Platform Team to manage our Google Cloud Platform, provide DevOps capabilities to the rest of the Engineering teams and help develop a FinOps culture in Freetrade.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage our Google Cloud infrastructure, working with the engineering teams to ensure our services are deployed on the most appropriate cloud systems and make recommendations on appropriate technology choices.
• Own and manage our monitoring and diagnostics. Ensure best-in-class observability, alerting, SLOs and cost attribution for our software stack.
• Own and manage the CI/CD infrastructure for our products.
• Deliver against challenging technical problems, weighing trade-offs to deliver scalable and maintainable solutions quickly.
• Establish and maintain a high bar of best practice on FinOps, Infra as code, PaaS.
• Own and manage dashboards for tracking operational performance metrics of the platform, such as platform cost per user, per transaction, base costs.
• Influence team and engineering roadmaps and strategy.
• Write and maintain documentation on the developer operations and platform spaces.

About you

• A track record with Google Cloud is a bonus but we are open to experience with other cloud providers like AWS and Azure.
• Knowledge of containerisation using Docker and experience managing deployed services in Kubernetes clusters.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and experience of using Terraform or an equivalent.
• Knowledge of any scripting language (Javascript, Python, Ruby etc.) and experience of identifying and exploiting automation opportunities.
• Deep understanding and obsession with the details.
• A love for the world of investments.
• Up to date with technology to influence good practices.
• Experience of running platforms that deliver high performance at scale suitable for B2C products.
• Experience of running highly resilient platforms, where reliability and graceful degradation is critical.

Benefits & Logistics

Freetrade offers a benefits package designed to attract and retain talent. Highlights for 2025 include:

• Hybrid working culture: 3-days in-office / 2-days from home. Offices in central London and Budapest. Office days: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday; Work from home days: Wednesday, Friday.
• Flexibility for those who need it: hybrid model with focus on output.
• Values: Honesty, Focus, Grit.
• Competitive salary; Bonus scheme linked to company and individual impact (First payouts: July 2026).
• Holidays: 25 days + UK public holidays; your birthday off plus one extra day per year at Freetrade.
• Enhanced pension: employer matches up to 5%.
• Group Life Insurance: coverage at 5x salary.
• Private Health Insurance, mental health support, dental and vision plans, wellness programs, preventative care.
• Income Protection Cover; Enhanced parental leave; Cycle to Work scheme; Paid Sick Leave — 10 days per calendar year.
• Learning & Development: funding for industry qualifications.

Note: Following the close of the deal to become part of IG Group, benefits may further improve to align with those on offer.

Interview Process

• Initial interview with a Talent Specialist.
• Hiring Manager interview to dive into your skills and experience.
• Live Technical Task to demonstrate problem-solving.
• System Design discussion to explore how you design systems for real-world challenges.
• Executive interview to assess cultural fit.

We are an Equal Opportunity employer committed to a diverse and representative team.

Please note we are not accepting agency CVs.

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