We’re looking for a passionate and experienced DevOps / SRE Engineer to join our growing Infrastructure team at Bumper, based in our London office. In this role, you’ll help shape and strengthen the reliability, scalability and observability of our cloud-native platform, working across the business to improve how we build, deploy and monitor our systems.
🏢 About Bumper
Bumper is a multi-award-winning digital payments and insights platform within the automotive industry. We support over 5,000 automotive retailers, helping drivers spread the cost of motoring bills, accessories and servicing through flexible payment options. Following our successful Series B in 2024, Bumper continues to scale across the UK and Europe.
🎯 The Role
We’re looking for a DevOps / SRE Engineer to join our growing Infrastructure team. In this role, you’ll help shape and strengthen the reliability, scalability and observability of our cloud-native platform. You’ll work across the business to improve how we build, deploy and monitor our systems, while playing a key role in incident response and continuous improvement.
✅ Key Responsibilities
Design, build and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure
Manage and enhance our Kubernetes (EKS) platform to support reliable, modern applications
Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Helm
Improve and support CI/CD pipelines using Argo Workflows, ArgoCD and GitHub Actions
Lead and participate in incident response, including on-call activities and major incident coordination
Drive high-quality monitoring, alerting and observability across metrics, logs and traces
Conduct and support blameless post-incident reviews, ensuring follow-up actions are delivered
Define and implement SLIs/SLOs to improve service reliability and operational excellence
Collaborate with engineering teams to embed best practices and improve developer experience
Contribute to automation, tooling, and continuous improvements that reduce toil and increase platform resilience
📌 Required Qualifications
Proven experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles
Strong hands-on experience running Kubernetes in production
Experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms
Solid experience with Terraform and IaC automation
Experience participating in or managing production incidents and on-call
Strong grasp of monitoring, alerting, and observability principles
Ability to diagnose and fix complex distributed systems issues
Demonstrated use of GenAI tools (ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Claude) in engineering workflows
Excellent communication and calmness under pressure
A passion for automation and reducing toil
⭐ Desirable Experience
Experience with Grafana Cloud, IRM or other incident management tools
Familiarity with Argo Workflows / ArgoCD
Experience defining SLIs/SLOs at scale
Background in Platform Engineering
Experience improving or redesigning incident management processes
🎁 Benefits
Competitive Salary
Company bonus scheme
Private Healthcare and Medicash plan
26 days holiday + bank holidays, plus volunteer days throughout the year (pro-rated)
Tax-saving Salary Sacrifice Pension with Aviva
Salary sacrifice Cycle to Work, Octopus Electric Vehicle, and Nursery fee schemes available!
For all your well-being and development needs, we give each colleague access to a benefits platform, with an allowance of £250 per year for wellbeing, and £150 per year for development
4 months paid leave to primary carers, and 1 month of paid leave to secondary carers
🛂 Visa & Eligibility
This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. We can only consider candidates who already have the right to work in the UK.
