DevOps Consultant

United Kingdom
Today
£80,000 – £120,000 pa

Salary

£80,000 – £120,000 pa

Job Type
Permanent
Work Pattern
Full-time
Work Location
Hybrid
Seniority
Senior
Education
Degree
Posted
7 May 2026 (Today)

Benefits

Build what actually matters Learn alongside exceptional people

About us

PhysicsX is a deep-tech company with roots in numerical physics and Formula One, dedicated to accelerating hardware innovation at the speed of software. We are building an AI-driven simulation software stack for engineering and manufacturing across advanced industries. By enabling high-fidelity, multi-physics simulation through AI inference across the entire engineering lifecycle, PhysicsX unlocks new levels of optimization and automation in design, manufacturing, and operations — empowering engineers to push the boundaries of possibility. Our customers include leading innovators in Aerospace & Defense, Materials, Energy, Semiconductors, and Automotive.

The role

We’re looking for experienced Deployment Lead / DevOps Consultant to join our customer-facing teams, serving as the critical bridge between PhysicsX and our customers. In this role, you’ll be responsible for owning the end-to-end deployment of our platform into diverse, customer-owned infrastructure environments. You’ll work closely with customers to understand their unique requirements, constraints, and environments, whilst ensuring seamless platform adoption and deployment success. This is a hands-on technical role that combines deep infrastructure expertise with strong customer relationship skills. You’ll be a trusted advisor who guides customers through complex deployments whilst collaborating internally with our platform teams to ensure our platform meets real-world deployment challenges.

What you’ll do

  • Partner directly with customers to assess their infrastructure requirements, security constraints, and deployment preferences, serving as the primary technical point of contact throughout the deployment lifecycle
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with customer technical teams and stakeholders
  • Gather customer feedback and requirements to inform platform development priorities
  • Design and execute deployment strategies for customer-owned cloud and on-premise infrastructure
  • Troubleshoot complex deployment issues across diverse infrastructure environments, understanding the difference between application and infrastructure bugs and triage internally
  • Act as a system validator to ensure our platform works within customer infrastructure
  • Continuously apply and improve deployment best practices and standards, and coach colleagues in their adoption
  • Travel to customer sites in APAC for anaverage of 3-4 weeks per quarter, where you'll collaborate closely with customers to build solutions on-site

What we’re looking for

  • Experience in deploying Kubernetes clusters across a range of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and on-premise infrastructure
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools, preferably Crossplane, Terraform, and Helm
  • Understanding of networking, security, and observability in containerised environments
  • Proven track record of working directly with external customers or clients
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences, including managing expectations and delivering on commitments
  • Strong problem-solving skills with a customer-first mindset
  • Comfortable presenting to technical and business stakeholders
  • Self-motivated with strong project management and organisational skills to empower internal and external teams to prioritise effectively
  • Collaborative approach with the ability to work effectively across various teams
  • Experience in a customer-led, customer success, professional services, or solutions engineering role is a plus
  • Experience in regulated industries or high-security environments is a plus

What we offer

Build what actually matters

Help shape an AI-native engineering company at a formative stage, tackling problems that genuinely matter for industry and society. This is work with real-world impact - and something you can be proud to stand behind.

Learn alongside exceptional people

Work with a high-caliber, collaborative team of engineers, scientists, and operators who care deeply about doing great work, and about helping each other get better. We come from diverse backgrounds, but we share a commitment to operating at the highest level and addressing some of the most complex challenges out there. If you’re ambitious, thoughtful, and driven by impact, you’ll feel at home.

Influence over hierarchy

We operate with a flat structure: good ideas win - wherever they come from. Questioning assumptions and challenging the status quo isn’t just welcomed, it’s expected.

Sustainable pace, long-term ambition

Building meaningful technology is a marathon, not a sprint. We believe in balancing focused, ambitious work with a life beyond it. Our hybrid model blends time together in our Shoreditch office with work-from-home days, giving you the flexibility to work sustainably while staying connected in person.

We value diversity and are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, disability, age, sexual orientation or gender identity. We strongly encourage individuals from groups traditionally underrepresented in tech to apply. To help make a change, we sponsor bright women from disadvantaged backgrounds through their university degrees in science and mathematics. We collect diversity and inclusion data solely for the purpose of monitoring the effectiveness of our equal opportunities policies and ensuring compliance with UK employment and equality legislation. This information is confidential, used only in aggregate form, and will not influence the outcome of your application.

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