Location: Cambridge

Way of Working: Office based or Hybrid (attend office 1-2 days per week)

Hours of work: 40 hours per week

Length: Full-time / Permanent

Salary: £70,000 - £80,000 per annum (DOE)

Our purpose is simple: To improve every positioning solution

We develop groundbreaking technology that boosts the accuracy, reliability and security of radio receivers. Chipset manufacturers and Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) partner with us to enhance the capability of their devices, helping to improve the lives of billions of people who rely on location technologies.

The Opportunity:

We're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Internal Infrastructure & Tooling team. You will be working on meaningful infrastructure problems that directly impact engineering productivity.

You'll be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the platforms and tooling that our engineering teams rely on every day. This is a hands-on role with ownership over mature and emerging systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS and on premises hardware, ensuring reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.

• Own and evolve our CI/CD pipelines, enabling engineering teams to develop their products with confidence.

• Manage and harden Linux-based systems across our internal estate.

• Develop internal tooling and automation to improve developer experience and operational efficiency.

• Collaborate with security stakeholders to embed best practices into infrastructure and deployment workflows.

• Contribute to incident response and post-incident reviews.

• Mentor other engineers and lead by example for infrastructure standards across the organisation

Your Experience

• Essential:

  • Strong knowledge of Linux administration, networking, and troubleshooting in production environments.

  • Several years of experience in a DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering role.

  • A solid understanding of infrastructure-as-code principles and modern deployment practices.

  Desirable:

  • Experience writing and managing Terraform modules and state at scale.

  • Comfortable scripting and building tooling in Python.

  • Experience designing and maintaining pipelines in GitLab CI/CD.

  • Familiarity with infrastructure security practices such as secrets management, vulnerability scanning.

  • Experience with containerisation and orchestration (Docker).

  • Familiarity with observability tooling (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).

We encourage applications from candidates who meet most but not all of the criteria. If this sounds like the right challenge for you, we'd love to hear from you.

Our Guiding Principle and Values

Our guiding principle, Strive for Excellence, sets the expectation of how we operate.

It helps to shape our work environment, and how we should navigate everything we do from our day to day behaviours to the way we interact across the organisation.

We value high integrity.

We demonstrate this through honesty, transparency and ethical behaviours.

We value high performance.

We demonstrate this through active problem solving, proactively seeking out solutions.

We value high collaboration.

We demonstrate this through empowering our people and teams, creating an environment that encourages inclusivity and respect.

Your Development and Perks

Our people are the reason why our business continues to thrive. We lead the way in the industry, we care for our people and we are always looking to support your development. Staff are regularly mentored by our team of experts and all employees are offered, bi-annual appraisals, career development plans, training courses relevant to their field and feedback sessions through 1-2-1 meetings.

Our generous benefits package includes the following:

• 8% employer-contribution pension scheme

• You can choose your way of working- In-hub (3 days+ in office) or Hybrid (1-2 days in office)

• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays

• Additional annual leave after 3 years

• Enhanced special leave

• Extra annual leave at the end of December

• Company Options Scheme (determined by Executive Team)*

• Up to £5000 Recommend a friend scheme

• Cycle to work scheme

• Private Healthcare - Vitality Health (after successful completion of probation)

• In-hub (office) lunches on us

• Paid professional memberships

• Free parking onsite

*Company options are not offered as part of the package. You may be offered them throughout your employment* 

Our purpose is to improve every positioning solution 

At FocalPoint, our purpose is to improve the accuracy, reliability, and security of everyday devices that rely on positioning technology. We believe that GNSS is one of the marvels of the modern world, considering over a trillion dollars of the US economy and over 800 billion euros of the European economy currently depends on this incredible positioning and timing system. 

However, the sensitivity and accuracy of current receivers cannot fulfil the demands of 21st century businesses and users. We develop groundbreaking technology that boosts the accuracy, reliability and security of radio receivers. Chipset manufacturers and Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) partner with us to enhance the capability of their devices, helping to improve the lives of billions of people who rely on location technologies.

We are an equal opportunities employer

We believe in diversity, equity and inclusion. We believe that diversity fosters innovation and creativity, and we welcome and encourage candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.We are committed to welcoming, respecting and valuing people for who they are as individuals, learning from their differences, embracing their uniqueness, and providing a positive workplace for all.