DevOps Engineer

DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer (Digital Audio)

Make radio proud at cloud scale.

We’re Bauer Media Audio, home to some of Europe’s most loved audio brands. We’re looking for a DevOps/SRE who keeps systems calm under pressure, shortens the path from code to customer, and helps our teams ship reliably (and sleep better). You’ll be the heartbeat behind the uptime, performance and security of our Digital Audio platform—while coaching product and engineering teams in modern DevOps practices.

Why this role matters

Millions press play on us every day. Your mission is to keep it instant, secure and smooth—maintaining high availability, hardening our cloud, and helping peers build fast, resilient delivery pipelines. Think “you build it, you run it” done well, with great tooling and even better collaboration.

What you’ll get stuck into

• Own the reliability of our Digital Audio systems: troubleshoot service incidents, tune performance, and keep our platform healthy and available.
• Build, test and upgrade infrastructure; support releases; evaluate patches; and recommend pragmatic improvements to how we run.
• Partner with product & tech in roadmap, refinement and epic breakdown—bringing clear technical guidance so we deliver value that actually lands.
• Lead by influence: level-up teams in DevOps methods and tools, reduce technical debt, and champion security, resilience and cost awareness.

You’ll actively support our “you build it, you run it” ethos, including participation in an on-call rota for in-hours and out-of-hours incidents.

The toolkit you’ll touch

• AWS: Lambda, API Gateway, EKS; applying Well-Architected principles and watching costs.
• Containers & Orchestration: Docker/Podman, Kubernetes.
• CI/CD: Jenkins, Argo CD, GitHub Actions.
• Observability: Elastic, Prometheus, Dynatrace, Grafana.
• IaC & Scripting: Terraform, plus bash/Go/Python on Linux (CentOS/Fedora/Ubuntu/AMI2).

What makes you a great fit

• Proven in DevOps/SRE with production ownership and incident response; calm, clear comms when things get spicy.
• Strong problem-solver who can go forensic when needed; security-minded with practical mitigation habits.
• Comfortable guiding teams, simplifying complexity, and aligning technical decisions to business outcomes.
• Organised, adaptable, and collaborative across product, engineering, security and architecture.

Nice to have: experience in audio/streaming environments and operating within a 24×7 rota. Degree or equivalent experience welcome—we care about impact.

How we work

Collaboration first: open lines between product, delivery, engineering and security to make smart, timely decisions.

Customer value, always: development aligned to market needs across devices and countries.

Continuous improvement: we reduce technical debt while protecting scalability, resilience and security.

Location & flexibility

Permanent, full-time, remote within the UK (hybrid optional). Role includes participation in incident support rotas (in-hours and out-of-hours).

The impact you’ll see in your first 6 months

• Faster, safer deploys across key services.
• Clear, actionable reliability metrics and dashboards.
• Fewer repeat incidents; sharper incident comms and post-mortems.
• Happier teams shipping with confidence.

Ready to tune up the internet’s favourite radio?

Apply with your CV or LinkedIn profile. If your experience looks a little different but you think you can bring the right reliability mindset and DevOps chops, we’d still love to hear from you. 

Bauer values inclusion and equal opportunity. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and don’t expect you to tick every box to make a big impact here.

About Bauer Media Group

We are a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe. Our offering extends from print and online publishing to audio broadcasting and entertainment, alongside investments in other media related sectors. With more than 500 million copies sold each year, we are one of Europe’s largest Publishers. From women’s and celebrities’ magazines to TV listings to food and special interest, we own some of the most popular publishing brands in Germany, UK, Poland and France – both digital and print. But not only that. Reaching over 61 million listeners weekly, we operate over 150 radio and podcast brands in nine countries, spanning the UK, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Portugal. Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer Media focuses on the long-term, with a consumer-first mindset that guides us across our diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 12,000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people‘s everyday lives.

What’s in it for you

• You’ll have 25 days holiday, bank holidays & 2 volunteer days to use.
• Your development matters, so access to our internal training provider – Bauer Academy, is a huge win. 
• We have enhanced Maternity/Adoption, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave Pay.
• You’ll have the opportunity for flexible working. 
• And much more! Find the full details of our benefits here

We are an international employer and equal opportunities are important to us. That's why we welcome everyone in their uniqueness, regardless of e.g. religion, gender, skin color, disability in our house.

If you have any feedback regarding our UK recruitment process, please email careershub@bauermedia.co.uk we would love to hear from you.