Senior DevOps Engineer | Kodily, UK (part-time)

GT was founded in 2019 by a former Apple, Nest, and Google executive. GT’s mission is to connect the world’s best talent with product careers offered by high-growth companies in the UK, USA, Canada, Germany, and the Netherlands.

On behalf of Kodily, GT is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer  interested in part-time involvement*

*Expected involvement: 8-16 hours/week for the next 3 months at least.

About Kodily

Kodily is a British startup that developed an AI-driven app to streamline the medical and pharmaceutical documentation review process, ensuring compliance with UK standards. Traditionally, this review process involves a multi-person team (medical, legal, and code of practice experts) and is both costly and time-consuming. After initial reviews, materials are typically sent to a UK-registered medic for final sign-off. Kodily aims to automate much of this with AI, which currently reviews text and has plans to analyze images.

• Project Stage: The Kodily team has created an MVP of the product that allows for checking documents against references, relevant codes of practice, and licensing requirements. They aim to polish the MVP for the clients and release within the next 3 months.

• Technical stack: It currently runs as a Streamlit dashboard coupled with a Python app on a Windows on-prem machine, using Llama-based local language models to ensure security. The plan is to create a robust web application using React/nginx, Python, and Linux.

• Team: 1 Data Scientist, 1 Python engineer (part-time), business stakeholders.

About the Role

Kodily is looking for a DevOps Engineer to join their team and support the transition of their product from MVP to a fully deployable, customer-ready web application. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to an innovative platform that leverages AI within the health-tech domain, enabling pharma enterprises like Roche and Napp to streamline processes and accelerate the delivery of life-saving medicines.

Responsibilities:

• DevOps Expertise: Guide developers in implementing best practices for and deployment workflows for Web Apps

• SaaS Deployment Expertise: Lead efforts to launch SaaS/web applications, guiding projects from development to live customer deployment.

• End-to-End Deployment: Oversee and execute the deployment of front-end and back-end applications.

• Infrastructure Management: Design, configure, and manage hosting environments, web servers, and application stacks.

• Scalability & Performance: Set up and maintain systems to handle user load effectively, ensuring high availability and performance.

• Monitoring & Logging: Implement robust monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions for system health and performance tracking.

• Security: Establish and maintain basic security practices, including access control, encryption, and vulnerability management.

• Hands-On Development: Contribute directly to configuration and scripting tasks where required, demonstrating significant software development expertise.

Essential knowledge, skills & experience:

• Proven expertise in DevOps practices and tools

• Extensive experience deploying web applications, including front-end and back-end services.

• Deep understanding of web server and hosting environment configuration (e.g., Nginx, Apache, Docker, Kubernetes).

• Strong knowledge of monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana) and logging systems (e.g., ELK Stack, Fluentd).

• Familiarity with load management and scalable deployment strategies.

• Background in software development, enabling clear communication with developers and insight into application workflows.

• Expertise in securing applications and infrastructure using industry-standard practices.

• At least Upper-intermediate English level

Interview Steps

1. GT interview with Recruiter

2. Kodily Team interview

3. Offer