Senior DevOps Engineer, GEEIQ
£80-100k
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
The platform, insights and experts behind the biggest brands in gaming and virtual worlds.
Posted today
The platform, insights and experts behind the biggest brands in gaming and virtual worlds.
21-100 employees
Posted today
£80-100k
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
GEEIQ's mission is to become the single source of truth and decision making point for brands navigating and engaging the virtual worlds economy and wider metaverse.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for an experienced and pragmatic engineer who is passionate about building robust, automated, and secure systems
- Extensive hands-on experience in a DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering role, managing production systems in a cloud environment
- Deep expertise with AWS and its core services (e.g., EKS, RDS, Lambda, EC2, S3, IAM, VPC)
- Proven, expert-level proficiency with Terraform for managing complex infrastructure as code
- Extensive experience managing production workloads on Kubernetes, including cluster management, scaling, and security
- Demonstrated ability to design, build, and significantly improve CI/CD pipelines, with specific experience in GitHub Actions
- A strong track record of building out and improving observability stacks (monitoring, logging, tracing)
- Experience implementing security controls and working within compliance frameworks (experience with SOC2 is a major plus)
- Proven ability to mentor and collaborate with other engineers
- Cloud: AWS (EKS, RDS, Lambda, etc.)
- IaC: Terraform (Expert)
- Containerisation: Kubernetes, Docker
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions
- Observability: Grafana, Prometheus, AWS CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry/distributed tracing
- Scripting: Strong proficiency in at least one scripting language (e.g., Python, Go, Bash). Familiarity with JavaScript/TypeScript is a plus, as it's used across our stack
- Data Services: Operational knowledge of managing databases like RDS (Postgres/MySQL), MongoDB, and Elasticsearch is a huge plus
- An automation-first approach to everything, with a passion for reducing manual toil
- A practical, pragmatic, and hands-on approach to problem-solving
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with software engineers
What the job involves
- Our Engineering team plays a critical role developing and refining the GEEIQ data platform that helps and empowers our clients - from major brands to emerging players in various industries - to navigate the complexities of virtual worlds
- The GEEIQ engineering team is extremely collaborative, working together to not only build a great platform, but also a great team
- We are on a mission to build the leading platform for brands navigating virtual worlds, and the reliability and scalability of that platform are paramount to our success
- As a Senior DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer, you will be a key technical leader responsible for the reliability, scalability, and security of the entire GEEIQ platform
- You'll tackle our biggest infrastructure challenges, from scaling our Kubernetes clusters to maturing our observability stack and refining our deployment pipelines
- You will work alongside our existing DevOps engineer, mentoring them while driving our platform's technical direction
- Your goal is to empower our software engineers to ship features quickly and confidently, knowing the underlying platform is rock-solid
- This is a hands-on role where you will solve complex operational problems and build the foundation for our next stage of growth
- Own, manage, and evolve our AWS cloud infrastructure, ensuring it is scalable, cost-effective, and secure
- Lead the architecture and hands-on implementation of our infrastructure using Terraform, maintaining and elevating our Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards
- Take charge of managing, scaling, and securing our heavily-used Kubernetes (EKS) clusters and the microservices they run
- Administer and optimize our core data services (RDS, Elasticsearch, MongoDB) from an operational perspective, focusing on performance, backups, and resilience
- Re-architect and refine our CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions to make them faster, more reliable, and more secure
- Champion developer productivity by building tools, automating workflows, and reducing friction in the development lifecycle
- Lead the charge on improving our observability strategy. Design and implement a robust monitoring, logging, and alerting framework using tools like Grafana, Prometheus, and native AWS services
- Enhance our incident response processes, contribute to on-call rotations, and foster a culture of blameless post-mortems
- Drive infrastructure security best practices across the board, playing a critical role in our journey towards SOC2 compliance
- Implement and manage security controls related to IAM, network security (VPCs, security groups), vulnerability scanning, and secrets management
Application process
- Application Deadline: March 31, 2026
- Stage 1
- Applied
- Stage 2
- Review
- Stage 3
- Talent Screening - Interview
- Stage 4
- Onsite Interview
- Stage 5
- Final Onsite Interview & Task
- Stage 6
- Hired
Salary benchmarks
Our take
There is an abundance of sponsorships, partnerships and campaigns emerging daily in the e-industry, but navigating this industry can be difficult. GEEIQ is an insights platform that empowers brands to navigate and engage the virtual worlds economy. It is the decision-making point for brands seeking to reach, engage and retain untapped virtual communities in this new communications vertical, offering competitor benchmarking, virtual experience reporting and partner identification.
Using competitive analysis, structured metrics and knowledge of current industry trends, GEEIQ's verifications standardise partner selection processes and drastically reduce financial risk for brands. The company provides its subscribers with professional services to help curate long-term, data-led virtual strategies that are focused on tangible KPI's over favorable PR and headlines. GEEIQ works with brands from Walmart and Porsche, to Gucci and Elton John, fast establishing itself as the sole provider of deep analytics on brand opportunities in virtual gaming environments and the wider ‘metaverse’.
GEEIQ is continuing to develop its platform to become an indispensable tool for brands activating and measuring their success in this space as it aims to be to virtual gaming and the metaverse, what Nielsen is to television and radio. In September 2023, the company closed its Series A funding round of $8.2 million, which will allow it to accelerate scale-up plans, explore international expansion and further develop its platform and professional services.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (1 round)
Sep 2023
$8.2m
SERIES A
Total funding: $8.2m
Company benefits
- 25 days paid annual leave + UK bank holidays
- Support to learn, develop and progress with GEEIQ
- Regular team buildings (Game nights, afterwork drinks, Christmas/Summer parties...)
- Birthday Off
Company HQ
Marylebone, London, UK
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at GEEIQ
- GEEIQ is a place for people who can challenge the status quo
- We are at the start of our journey, and at the core of the company's DNA, we want to instil a workplace of trust, leadership and support
- At GEEIQ we’re looking for genuinely good people that are transparent and emphatic, and kind with one other
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