DevOps Engineer

About us: We’re Rascal, a purpose-driven technology studio blending strategy, delivery, and culture to solve complex challenges. As a B-Corp in progress, we partner with forward-thinking teams across tech, ecommerce, health, and social impact sectors. Our approach is bold, helpful, and human and we’re growing. We’re now looking for a DevOps Engineer to help us scale delivery and support on several client projects ranging from platform migrations to new product builds.

About the role: This is a hands-on, delivery-focused DevOps role. You’ll work across infrastructure setup, automation pipelines, CI/CD implementation, cloud deployments, and support lightweight engineering teams with scalable, secure, and repeatable environments. You’ll also advise on tooling and best practice, supporting both Rascal internal workflows and client projects.

Responsibilities:

• Designing and managing CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Bitbucket Pipelines)
• Infrastructure as code using Terraform or similar
• Deploying scalable cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Managing secrets, access control, backups and logging
• Working alongside developers to support environments for APIs, data integrations and frontend builds
• Supporting internal and client teams to ship faster and more reliably
• Advising on DevOps hygiene: testing, rollback, monitoring, and deployment strategies
• Advise on platform reliability, security, and cost optimisation
• Helping us evolve our internal delivery processes for tech-led consulting work
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate product requirements into platform solutions
• Support internal DevOps/Platform operations (including client billing environments, data integrations and shared infrastructure)

Required:

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS and Infrastructure as Code
• Python scripting or equivalent backend engineering and automation experience
• Strong knowledge of DevOps best practices (CI/CD, observability, rollback strategies)
• Solid experience managing multiple environments and apps with access controls
• Experience with technologies like Docker, Serverless and Microservices
• Proficiency with IaC tools (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation)
• Containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes basics)
• Extensive experience working iteratively in an agile environment.
• Excellent problem-solving attitude and ability to think on your feet.
• Design and optimisation experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery as cornerstones of the development practices.
• Working in a fast-paced environment where requirements and projects are always changing
• 4+ years’ experience in DevOps or platform engineering
• Solid understanding of software engineering lifecycles and agile workflows
• Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, etc.)
• Strong communication skills

Optional experience:

• Experience with GitOps
• Familiarity with Contentful, Kontent.ai, Vercel, or Netlify
• Experience in consultancy, agency or startup environments

Why Join Us?

• Meaningful work with purpose-led clients
• Flexible schedules, no micromanagement
• Friendly team of product, design and engineering minds
• Opportunity to influence how we scale DevOps as a service offering
• Work across multiple industries and challenges

Interview Process

• Short process 1-3 weeks total:
• Application assessment
• Initial screening interview
• Assessment interview (90 mins)
• If successful there will be a final interview
• Possible informal chat with CEO