Associate DevOps Engineer

Veeva Systems is seeking an Associate DevOps Engineer to support the AWS and Kubernetes analytics infrastructure for its business consulting team as part of the NitroAI Team. The role focuses on platform reliability and security, GitOps deployments, CI/CD support, incident response, observability, and migration to a new AI-native stack.

Responsibilities

• Support day-to-day operation of the AWS and Kubernetes platform — monitoring reliability and performance, flagging issues before they become incidents for 50 person global consulting team
• Build & Maintain GitOps deployments: sync policies, deployment ordering, configuration management
• Support CI/CD pipelines: maintain GitLab pipelines and runners, help engineering teams troubleshoot failed builds and deployments
• Act as first responder on platform incidents: triage, escalate, and help document post-mortems
• Maintain platform observability: monitoring, alerting, and log visibility
• Migrate 50 person business consulting team onto a new AI native stack
• Support the building of our new AI native application NitroAI to learn Veeva methodology

Preferred

• EKS/Kubernetes RBAC and IRSA experience
• Broader AWS fluency: Lambda, ALB, WAF, CloudFront, Secrets Manager, Route53, KMS, ECR
• Apache Airflow experience via MWAA
• Proficiency with Claude Code
• Exposure to compliance/security-baseline work
• Amazon EKS
• Kubernetes RBAC
• IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA)
• AWS Lambda
• Application Load Balancer (ALB)
• AWS WAF
• Amazon CloudFront
• AWS Secrets Manager
• Amazon Route 53
• AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
• Amazon ECR
• Apache Airflow
• Amazon MWAA
• Claude Code
• Compliance Baselines
• Security Baselines

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance
• Flexible PTO and company paid holidays
• Retirement programs
• 1% charitable giving program
• Flexibility to work from home or in the office
• This position may also be eligible for other types of compensation in addition to base salary, such as variable bonus and/or stock bonus.

Company

• AI-powered talent hiring platform for life sciences, pharma, and IT
• London, England, GBR
• https://lifelancer.com/
• Founded in 2020
• 11-50 employees

Qualifications

• 1+ years hands-on experience with AWS and Kubernetes
• Working knowledge of GitLab CI/CD, including runner management and Bash scripting for deployment tasks
• Familiarity with GitOps practices (ArgoCD or similar)
• Exposure to Terraform or another infrastructure-as-code tool
• Strong communication skills and a customer-service mindset — you're supporting people, not just infrastructure
• Comfortable being accountable to other engineers who are blocked and waiting on you
• EKS/Kubernetes RBAC and IRSA experience
• Broader AWS fluency: Lambda, ALB, WAF, CloudFront, Secrets Manager, Route53, KMS, ECR
• Apache Airflow experience via MWAA
• Proficiency with Claude Code
• Exposure to compliance/security-baseline work

Required skills

• AWS, Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD, Bash, GitOps, ArgoCD, Terraform, EKS, Kubernetes RBAC, IRSA, Apache Airflow

Preferred skills

• EKS/Kubernetes RBAC and IRSA experience, Apache Airflow experience via MWAA, Proficiency with Claude Code, Exposure to compliance/security-baseline work

Experience

• 1+ years