DevOps & QA Automation Engineer (Remote)
Role Overview
This mid-level role involves designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, integrating automated testing, and supporting infrastructure automation for a startup undergoing architectural transformation. The engineer will work hands-on across build systems, cloud infrastructure, and test environments to enable high-confidence deployments and reduce risk during rapid change. Impact includes driving best practices in release governance and ensuring engineering discipline as the team migrates to a productised platform.
Perks & Benefits
This is a fully remote position with a worldwide location, offering flexibility in work setup and likely asynchronous collaboration across time zones. The role is part of an early-stage or growth-stage startup environment, implying opportunities for career growth, hands-on involvement in transformative projects, and a culture focused on reliability and cross-functional collaboration. Benefits may include exposure to modern tech stacks and the chance to shape platform re-architecture initiatives.
Full Job Description
Headquarters: Cambourne, United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
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 experiencePrior work in an early-stage or growth-stage startup environmen3 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 AWSRDS / MySQL)Dashboarding and monitoring with AWS platform and toolsA pragmatic, reliability-focused mindset, with high attention to detailNice to havesExperience embedding quality assurance into pipelines (test coverage enforcement, flaky test detection, etc.)Mobile app automated test technologies, particularly Android JavaFamiliarity with system monitoring and alerting toolingExposure to data pipelines or scientific computing environmentsPrevious involvement in platform re-architecture or CI/CD transformationprojectsExperience building release governance or audit mechanismsPrior work in an early-stage or growth-stage startup environmentsPrior work in an early-stage or growth-stage startup environmPrior work in an early-stage or growth-stage startup
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