Junior DevOps Engineer

About us

At Xelix, we work with some of the world’s largest companies to automate and strengthen their financial controls. Our AI solutions redefine how Accounts Payable teams operate – moving from manual processes to automated, intelligent workflows.

Xelix is a fast-paced scale-up – things move fast and expectations are high. We raised our Series B with Insight Partners in June 2025 and are expanding aggressively. We have a team of over 150 talented people pulling together to achieve our goals. Everyone is trusted to take ownership, move fast and have a meaningful impact. We prioritise personal and professional growth, keep things fun, and love to celebrate a milestone together.

In this role you’ll grow, be challenged and help shape the future of Xelix. If you’re excited about building something special with us, we’d love to hear from you.

About the role

At Xelix the DevOps team is responsible for managing, monitoring and optimizing our SaaS platform, i.e. ensuring system Availability, Durability, Reliability, Resiliency and Fault Tolerance. They support and work closely with our in-house developers, providing a world class developer experience.

As Xelix continues to expand, so have the demands on our DevOps team. We are seeking an additional junior DevOps Engineer to help us complete items in our existing tech roadmap and help us hit our targets for the following year. We are looking for someone who can help the team improve our CI/CD processes, automate manual processes to create a self-service environment for our developers, and maintain platform uptime SLAs by improving our observability stack.

We use infrastructure-as-code to maintain our platform on AWS, so familiarity with common AWS Services (RDS, S3, ECS, EC2 etc.) and Terraform is essential for this role.

Xelix handles large volumes of sensitive commercial data, making security crucial across all our activities. In this role you will build on our existing security infrastructure by helping to implement and maintain security best practices.

What you'll be doing

• Operating production AWS workloads

• Provision, upgrade and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform

• Release engineering: Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines through Jenkins / Github Actions and other technology

• Support the Development and AI Engineering Teams - help troubleshoot their issues

• Bring observability through dashboards, alerting and log aggregation

• Run incident analysis and post mortems

• Environment management: ephemeral environments, dev/staging/prod

What you’ll bring

• A strong foundation in DevOps practices and tools

• Eager to learn and pickup new skills quickly and independently

• Familiarity with Python/Django deployments and troubleshooting

• An understanding of Postgres/RDS database operations

• Confident to ask for help when stuck, ready to supply new ideas, able to listen work well with other team members.

• Good technical background and mindset

• Diligent at tasks and keeping to deadlines for tickets, happy to assist colleagues across the organisation to resolve technical issues quickly

What we offer in return

Competitive salary of £45,000 - £55,000 depending on experience

️ 27 days of annual leave (including 3 days Christmas closing), with the option to roll over 3 days

Hybrid working with three days a week from our dog-friendly Hoxton office and on-site gym

Comprehensive private medical & dental cover with Vitality

Enhanced parental leave pay

Learning & development culture – £1,000 personal annual budget

We’re carbon-neutral and are working towards ambitious carbon reduction goals

Lots of team socials & activities

☀️ Annual team retreat

Want to learn more?

We believe that people from diverse backgrounds, with different identities and experiences make our company and product better. No matter your background, we'd love to hear from you! And if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you - we're happy to accommodate!

If you're a recruiting agency - we have an existing list of agencies we work with and we are not currently planning on expanding the list. Neither the Talent team nor hiring managers or the Support team will respond to cold outreach.