Software Engineer (DevOps) - Managed Storage

About Revolut

About The Role

What You'Ll Be Doing

• Designing, operating, and evolving our storage solutions, such as Kafka clusters at scale, across cloud and/or on-premise environments
• Building and maintaining self-managed, highly available distributed systems (messaging, storage, data infrastructure)
• Architecting multi-region deployments, failover strategies, and disaster recovery for mission-critical systems
• Developing infrastructure as code and internal self-service platforms to enable engineering teams to provision and operate safely at scale
• Driving automation across provisioning, scaling, upgrades, patching, and incident remediation
• Contributing to reliability standards (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets) and improving observability across the stack
• Working closely with backend, platform, security, and compliance teams to design infrastructure that meets regulatory and audit requirements
• Participating in incident response and postmortem processes, focusing on systemic improvements rather than firefighting

What You'Ll Need

• Expertise operating Apache Kafka in production at scale, including cluster provisioning, lifecycle management, capacity planning, performance tuning, replication, failover, and resilience design
• Knowledge of security hardening (ACLs, encryption, authentication)
• A background in SRE, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering
• A deep understanding of distributed systems concepts (consensus, partitioning, fault tolerance, backpressure, networking)
• Experience with Linux, containerisation (Docker), and Kubernetes
• Expertise with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform) and configuration management (e.g., Ansible)
• Familiarity with CI/CD systems and automation pipelines
• The ability to independently design and deliver complex systems in collaboration with multiple internal stakeholders
• Hands-on software engineering skills
• Nice to have
• Experience operating other stateful systems at scale (e.g., Postgres, Redis, object storage)
• Knowledge of monitoring and observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Stackdriver, Vector, VictoriaMetrics)
• Exposure to regulated environments or financial systems
• Experience operating infrastructure across cloud (GCP/AWS) and on-premise environments
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