Rapha launched in 2004 to redefine cycling apparel. Today progressive design and storytelling has built a global movement.

We love cycling in all its forms, from the city streets to the highest peaks. And we know its power to transform lives. Led by innovation, we embody this love through a dedication to the world's greatest sport, by setting a new standard in design and pushing the cutting edge of performance and human craft.

We are looking for a talented Middleweight DevOps Engineer to join our engineering team. In this role, you will enhance our development pipeline, optimise deployment processes, and ensure site reliability for our global e-commerce platform. 

Working collaboratively with engineers across multiple disciplines including frontend, backend, data and QA, you will implement CI/CD pipelines, develop monitoring solutions, and ensure our systems are secure, reliable, and scalable.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks

• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines to automate testing, integration, and deployment

• Manage and optimise cloud environments to ensure cost-efficiency, scalability, and high availability

• Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting systems

• Develop automation tools to streamline operations and improve system reliability

• Ensure security best practices in system configurations and deployments

• Support production incidents and troubleshoot issues across the platform

• Identify and resolve bottlenecks in development and deployment processes

What We’re Looking For

Essential experience

• 2+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer, SRE, or similar role

• Proven experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, or similar

• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)

• Experience with containerisation technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes

• Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation

• Python or similar scripting languages

• GIT version control

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  Desirable experience

• We would love it if you can demonstrate that you understand the concepts behind software engineering rather than merely knowing a particular language/framework

• Testing (Using tools such as Jest)

• CI/CD

• Exposure to MACH principles

  • Microservices

  • API-First

  • Cloud-Native SaaS

  • Headless

• Observability (Using tools such as NewRelic, DataDog, Grafana, etc)

• Agile / ShapeUp

Mindset & soft skills

• A problem solving mindset

• Eagerness to learn and explore new technologies/concepts

• Clear communication

• Proactive approach

• Comfortable working in collaborative environments

A typical day might look like

• Writing Terraform IaC to provision and manage AWS infrastructure

• Building or optimising CI/CD pipelines in Gitlab CI to improve deployment reliability

• Reviewing infrastructure changes and deployment processes with Cloud Engineers

• Responding to monitoring alerts and investigating performance issues in production

• Collaborating with engineers to improve Developer Experience through better tooling

• Implementing security scanning tools within the deployment pipeline

• Participating in incident retrospectives to improve system reliability

• Documenting infrastructure patterns and runbooks

Working at Rapha

We are continuously looking into ways to invest in our employees and build a better working culture and environment. Here are just some of the internal benefits we offer:

• Flexible working hours

• Support for ad-hoc remote working during the week - minimum 4 days in office

• 25 days annual leave

• 2 additional days paid time off to participate in a sportive or similar related cycling event

• A flexible riding benefit to allow you to go out riding on a Wednesday morning with colleagues or learn to cycle through our Getting Started Scheme

• An annual clothing allowance of £1,120 for testing and promotional purpose

• A company bonus scheme

• A health cash plan provided by Healthshield worth up to £1405 per year

• Mental health support with MyndUp

• Free barista coffee and social drinks in the office

• Subsidised lunches 3 days per week

• Monthly department social events and quarterly office social away days

• Bike racing expenses up to £35 per race entry

• A 50% staff discount and a discount for family and friends

• Industry discounts on brands such as Patagonia, Osprey, Finisterre, Wahoo

• Free membership to the Rapha Cycling Club

• Cycle2Work scheme

• Company Pension Scheme

• Enhanced Parental Leave and Pay