🏠 The People

We’re a diverse team of engineers and entrepreneurs, representing over 13 nationalities and all walks of life - even a few vegetarians! We are brought together by a shared passion for meaningful impact. Our culture is grounded in values we live every day:

🧙🏽 Empathetic Artisan

• We approach our work with care, artistry, and genuine empathy for each other and our users. We lead with positivity and passion.

💪🏼 Tenacious Innovator

• Innovation drives us. We trust ourselves, keep learning, and uncover bold solutions that redefine what’s possible in poultry farming.

🧤 Hand in Glove

• One mission, one team. We grow together with patience, trust, and transparency, amplifying each other’s strengths to revolutionise farming.

🏗️ Worth Building - Worth celebrating.

We dedicate ourselves to work that matters, taking pride in creating disruptive solutions our users can’t live without.

This is an exciting moment of growth for FLOX - and we’re looking for ambitious, humble, and purpose-driven people to join us in building a future of smarter farms, thriving chickens, and healthier lives.

🎒 The role

We are currently seeking a Junior DevOps Engineer to work in our London office under our Lead DevOps Engineer.

As a Junior DevOps Engineer

, you will help build and maintain the tooling, automation and cloud infrastructure that power our products. You’ll work closely with software engineers, ML engineers, and senior DevOps/Platform teammates to support deployments, reliability, observability, and SOC 2 compliance.

You don’t need deep experience with everything—just solid fundamentals, curiosity, and eagerness to learn. This is an opportunity to get hands-on with real production systems, learn from senior engineers, and grow into a key part of our platform and DevOps function.

🎁 What You’ll Get

• Opportunity to work on production-scale systems early in your career.
• Mentorship and personal development guided by experienced platform and ML engineers.
• Ownership and autonomy in shaping our DevOps culture.
• Exposure to cloud platforms, security compliance, ML infrastructure, and SRE practices.
• A fast-paced environment with rapid growth and impact.

🛠️What You’ll Work On

Infrastructure & Cloud (AWS)

• Support deployment and management of AWS infrastructure (EC2, EKS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, etc.)
• Assist in implementing infrastructure-as-code best practices (Terraform or CloudFormation).

Kubernetes & Containerisation

• Help manage and scale our Kubernetes clusters.
• Contribute to container build pipelines and debugging workloads.

CI/CD & Automation

• Maintain and improve Jenkins pipelines for automated builds, tests, and deployments.
• Assist in building automated workflows for ML model training and deployment.

Observability & Monitoring

• Help maintain and enhance our monitoring/alerting stack using Prometheus

  and Grafana

  .

• Contribute to dashboards, alert rules, and reliability metrics (SLIs/SLOs).

Security & Compliance (SOC 2)

• Learn about and support implementation of SOC 2 controls across the organisation.
• Assist with audit readiness tasks, documentation, and evidence gathering.

Reliability & Operations

• Participate in triage and incident response (with support from senior engineers).
• Learn and adopt DevOps/SRE best practices around reliability, automation, and quality.

📚 Tech Stack

Data

• Data sources: PTZ Cameras, IoT sensors, customer derived data sets
• Terabyte scale data on edge and cloud
• On-prem, cloud and edge compute

DevOps / MLOps / Software Development

• Python and FastAPI
• Kafka, MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL
• Docker; Kubernetes networking and service mesh; RKE2
• RTMP, WebRTC, HLS, MPEG-DASH
• Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, Thanos; ELK; Jaeger; custom exporters
• Jenkins, GitLab, Sonatype Nexus, Terraform, Ansible, Argo CD
• AWS (primary), with GCP/Azure exposure
• DVC, MLFlow, Airflow, Dagster, CVAT, Weights & Biases; data lakes/warehouse

🤝🏽 We would love to meet you if you these requirements: Essential

• 1+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform, SRE, Cloud, or SysAdmin roles (or strong personal projects / internships / open-source contributions).
• Basic experience with AWS or another cloud provider.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes or containerisation concepts.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.).
• Scripting/programming proficiency (Bash, Python, or similar).
• Understanding of monitoring tools such as Prometheus or Grafana.
• A mindset focused on automation, reliability, and continuous improvement.
• Strong willingness to learn and solve complex infrastructure problems.

Nice to Have

• Exposure to SOC 2, ISO 27001, or general security/compliance work.
• DevSecOps experience to support secure pipelines, security scanning, and compliance controls.
• Experience supporting ML/AI workflows (model deployments, pipelines, GPUs).
• Experience with Terraform or other IaC tools.
• Knowledge of Linux internals, networking and container runtime fundamentals.

👐🏼 What we can offer you:

• Up to £45,000 k p.a. depending on experience
• Hybrid working, in the office twice a week with flexibility
• Inclusive and relaxed company culture: we welcome everyone, we encourage you to be yourself and dress as you like
• Lunch and snacks provided
• Exposure to state-of-the-art technologies
• A talented and international work environment
• Travel within the UK
• A chance to work with well-respected experts, including AI and robotics

📅 Hiring timeline

We’re accepting applications now but interviews will start in January 2026.

If you apply in December, please don’t worry if you don’t hear from us immediately – we’ll be in touch once we begin the interview process in the new year.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from all individuals are encouraged regardless of age, socioeconomic background, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.