Associate DevOps Engineer

Our Team: How we enrich everyday life

You’ll be joining our Data & Decision Sciences (DDS) team, the beating heart of Bauer Media Audio’s data strategy. We’re a collaborative, cross-functional group that turns data into actionable insights and robust solutions across nine European markets. Our mission? To empower business growth, enhance audience engagement, and drive operational efficiency through data innovation.

We see data not as a support function but as an integral business partner that collaborates across all domains and markets expertise to deliver impactful business outcomes.

We’re a dynamic, growing team and thrive on openness and collaboration. If you’re curious, proactive, and ready to make an impact, you’ll fit right in.

The Difference you will make

As an Associate DevOps Engineer, you’ll play a key role in keeping Bauer’s data platforms stable, secure, and observable. You’ll help standardise deployments, monitoring, and access across AWS and our cloud data warehouses, supporting our in-house observability initiative, MONACO.

This is a brand new role created to support our growing team and evolving infrastructure. You’ll have the chance to shape how we work and contribute to exciting projects, so if you’re looking for a role where you can learn, grow, and make a real difference, this is it.

Your role

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Monitor and support AWS-based services and cloud data warehouses using MONACO, CloudWatch, and related tools.
• Manage and standardise access and permissions in AWS IAM and support role-based access controls for Snowflake and DataHub.
• Assist with deployment processes for data and analytics services, including CI/CD pipelines and Docker-based deployments on EC2.
• Maintain and improve documentation for services, runbooks, and standard operating procedures.
• Contribute to automation, better alerting, and streamlined processes while handling day-to-day platform support.
• Collaborate with engineers across DDS to improve stability, performance, and cost control.

The Skills you will bring

Essential:

• Prior experience in a DevOps, platform, SRE, or cloud support role or in IT/data environments with cloud exposure.
• Technical literacy and comfort with cloud consoles, command-line tools, and developers.
• Exposure to AWS fundamentals (EC2, IAM, CloudWatch).
• Basic Python skills for scripting and automation.
• Hands-on experience with Docker containers.

Desirable:

• Experience with AWS CloudWatch and observability tools.
• Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and pipelines.
• Exposure to cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery).
• Interest in data catalog/governance tooling.

Working Pattern/Location

London-based hybrid role: currently one day in the office per fortnight, moving towards 1–2 days per week over time.

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 28 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.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or a long term health condition, and need us to make any reasonable adjustments or do anything differently during any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing careershub@bauermedia.co.uk

We are actively recruiting for this position, so the job advert may close earlier than expected.

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