Senior DevOps Engineer

Our Team: How we enrich everyday life

You’ll be joining Bauer Media Audio, home to some of Europe’s most loved audio brands. Our Digital Audio team powers the platforms that millions use every day to stream, discover, and enjoy audio content. We collaborate across product, engineering, and security to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure services that make radio proud at cloud scale.

The Difference you will make

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you’ll be the heartbeat behind the uptime, performance, and security of our Digital Audio platform. You’ll shorten the path from code to customer, coach teams in modern DevOps practices, and ensure our systems stay calm under pressure. Your work will directly impact millions of listeners by keeping experiences instant, secure, and smooth.

Your role

You will lead reliability efforts, build infrastructure, and partner with teams to deliver value that lands.

Responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Own the reliability of Digital Audio systems: troubleshoot incidents, tune performance, and maintain high availability.
• Build, test, and upgrade infrastructure; support releases and recommend improvements.
• Partner with product and tech teams in roadmap and refinement, providing clear technical guidance.
• Lead by influence: level-up teams in DevOps methods, reduce technical debt, and champion security and resilience.
• Participate in an on-call rota for in-hours and out-of-hours incidents.

The Skills you will bring

• Proven experience in DevOps/SRE with production ownership and incident response.
• Strong problem-solving skills and security-minded approach.
• Ability to guide teams, simplify complexity, and align technical decisions to business outcomes.
• Organised, adaptable, and collaborative across product, engineering, and architecture.
• Nice to have: experience in audio/streaming environments and operating within a 24×7 rota.

Toolkit you’ll touch

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

Working Pattern/Location

Permanent, full-time, remote within the UK (hybrid optional). Includes participation in incident support rotas.

About Bauer Media Group 

Bauer Media UK is part of the wider Bauer Media Group and is the No.1 UK Publisher and the No.1 Digital Commercial Audio broadcaster. We reach 25 million consumers across our Radio and Publishing brands such as Greatest Hits, KISS, Grazia, Today's Golfer, Absolute Radio, TV Choice, Country Walking, Hits Radio, CAR, Magic, MCN, Jazz FM, Puzzles and many more! 

Bauer Media Group has remained one of the world’s most successful media companies for nearly 150 years through our commitment to continuous innovation and consumer obsession. Founded in Hamburg in 1875 and now in our fifth generation of family ownership, our multi-national company operates in 13 countries across Europe, reaching 200 million consumers. 

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.