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