Lead DevOps Engineer

Some key info for you about Liberis:

We were founded in 2007

We have provided over $3bn of funding to small businesses so far

We have been named inCNBC & Statista Top 150 UK Fintechs for 2025

Were a global team with a dynamic presence in6key locations around the world

Were a thriving community of over290innovative minds

Were a vibrant melting pot celebrating over27nationalities in our team

Our team brings experience from over740previous companies from startups to global giants

We have just been named as one ofFinTechs Finest 50by Welcome to the Jungle

Were proud to be an accreditedReal Living Wageemployer ensuring everyone is paid fairly for the great work they do!

Our Product & Engineering Team:

Liberis is building the embedded finance platform that lets partners around the world offer innovative funding products to their small business customers. Were a growth-stage fintech with teams in London Nottingham Atlanta Stockholm Munich and Mumbai and were building a global Product Data & Engineering team that thrives on autonomy ownership and is focused on impact! Our teams solve real-world problems for small businesses shaping products that unlock opportunity at scale.

Engineering is going through an AI-first transformation rethinking how teams are structured and how they ship. Its changing what a small team can do! We empower our teams to make decisions move fast and take full responsibility for the solutions they deliver. Youll join a team where curiosity is encouraged and collaboration across Product Data Delivery and Engineering is the norm.

The role:

Joining our Cloud Platform team as aLead DevEx Engineer you will play a key role in improving how engineers build ship and operate services across Liberis. This is a brand new role created to bridge the gap between application development and platform engineering - creating a more consistent scalable developer experience as we continue to evolve our platform strategy.

You will focus on building for engineers - creating and shaping the templates standards and foundations used across services. Alongside this you will have the opportunity to contribute to emerging platform initiatives including work that supports AI enablement across the engineering organisation.

This is a high-impact role with real scope to influence how engineering works at Liberis!

What youll get to do in the role:

• Own and evolve the service template library and Python covering projectscaffolding dependency management containerisation local dev setup and productionconfiguration. Templates are generated not forked so keeping them current and opinionatedmatters.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipeline templates in GitHub Actions and/or Azure DevOps covering build test security scanning and deployment consistent across stacks and reusable across teams.
• Define and ship observability standards: structured logging distributed tracing and alerting integrated into service templates so every new service is production-ready from day one.
• Work hands-on with Datadog and/or GCP/Azure-native logging and monitoring tooling to build the platform-level observability layer teams plug into.
• Contribute to our thinking on a potential Azure-to-GCP migration helping assess what changes for developer tooling and service templates and building proof-of-concept work that informs thedecision.
• Partner with product engineers to understand where developer experience breaks down slow pipelines confusing templates missing runbooks and fix the root causes not the symptoms.
• Lead technical decisions on platform tooling: evaluate new tools write ADRs and drive adoption of improvements across multiple engineering teams.
• Mentor engineers in the Cloud Platform team and act as a go-to resource for product engineers getting to grips with platform tooling.

The interview process:

• Screening call with Chess (Internal Recruiter) (30 mins)
• Video interview with the Hiring Manager (45 mins)
• In person code pairing interview with a member of Engineering team (1 hour)
• Video interview with the wider Liberis team(1 hour)

What we think youll need:

• Proficient in at least one (C#) and Python able to build configure and template production-grade services in each.
• Strong GCP experience (Azure experience is nice to have)
• Hands-on experience designing reusable CI/CD pipeline templates GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps consistent across stacks and teams.
• Comfortable with containerisation (Docker) and deployment on Kubernetes or Cloud Run.
• Observability experience with at least one of: Datadog or cloud-native logging and monitoring (GCP Cloud Operations or Azure Monitor).
• Infrastructure-as-code with Terraform.
• A proven track record of driving adoption building things engineers use writing docs that get read.