About XYZ Reality

XYZ Reality created the world’s first engineering-grade augmented reality for construction. Our site-safe hardhat, The Atom, overlays the design model onto the live build, so our engineers can verify work as it goes in on some of the most complex mission-critical projects in the world.

Backed by Series B investment and growing fast across the US, UK and Europe, we’re a driven, passionate team changing how the industry builds.

If you want your work to shape how the world gets built, we’d like to hear from you.

Build the infrastructure powering the future of construction

THE ROLE

You'll join us as a Senior DevOps Engineer, taking ownership of the cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices that power our platform. You'll work across cloud, container and CI/CD platforms, observability, security and developer tooling. This is a hands-on senior engineering role with broad ownership across our cloud and platform infrastructure.
You'll work closely with our technical teams to build reliable, scalable infrastructure while improving how our developers deploy, monitor and troubleshoot their services. We want DevOps to be an enabler rather than a gatekeeper, so you'll build the tooling, automation and self-service capabilities that allow engineering teams to move quickly and safely without creating unnecessary dependencies on DevOps. You'll have the autonomy to identify where our infrastructure and engineering practices can improve and take ownership of making those improvements happen.
The role is based in our London office on a hybrid basis, with 3 days per week in the office.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Architect, maintain and evolve our cloud infrastructure and container platforms.

• Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management.

• Design and improve CI/CD pipelines for fast, safe and repeatable deployments.

• Build observability across infrastructure and services: monitoring, logging, alerting and distributed tracing.

• Improve reliability, scalability and performance through capacity planning, autoscaling and resource optimisation.

• Own resilience, including backup, recovery and failover.

• Own infrastructure security across our platform.

• Evolve incident response, on-call practices, runbooks and blameless post-mortems.

• Support reliable, scalable databases.

• Build self-service tooling, templates and documentation that reduce reliance on DevOps.

• Support infrastructure for data pipelines and AI/ML model deployment.

• Partner directly with developers on deployment, troubleshooting and infrastructure best practices.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Demonstrable in-depth experience in DevOps, Infrastructure or Cloud Engineering.

• Strong hands-on experience with a major public cloud (Azure, AWS or GCP).

• Deep experience running container orchestration platforms in production.

• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code experience with modern tooling.

• Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps).

• Strong experience with containers and Docker.

• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting and observability in production.

• Good knowledge of infrastructure security best practice.

• Experience building automation in Python, Go, Bash or TypeScript.

• Strong troubleshooting skills and ownership of production infrastructure and incidents.

• The ability to make pragmatic decisions and explain infrastructure trade-offs.

KEY EXPERIENCE & SKILLS

• Experience with high-availability infrastructure (desirable)

• Experience with relational or document databases (desirable)

• Experience with AI/ML infrastructure (desirable)

• Experience with ETL/data pipelines (desirable)

• Experience with FinOps (desirable)

• Experience with certified/regulated environments (desirable)

BENEFITS

• 🏝️ 25 days annual leave + public holidays

• 🎄 Christmas shutdown days on top of your leave allowance

• 🩺 Private healthcare with Vitality

• 🏠 Hybrid working

• 🪙 Biannual salary reviews

• 🥳 Summer & Christmas staff parties

• 🍣 Free Thursday lunch and drinks after work

• 🚇 Office a 5 minute walk from Angel station

• 🚲 Cycle to Work scheme

• 💰 Employee referral scheme

Want to see The Atom in action? Watch our videos on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@XYZReality/videos) or visit www.xyzreality.com.our YouTube and Website