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title: 'Senior Devops Engineer UK at StarCompliance'
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# Senior Devops Engineer UK at StarCompliance

- **Company:** StarCompliance
- **Location:** United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-11-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/starcompliance/75e421ff-e924-4858-be62-7f03e65a86be

## Job description

Join a company where your ideas matter, your ambitions are supported, and you can make a real impact. StarCompliance is a leading global provider of compliance technology, helping financial institutions and corporations navigate complex regulatory requirements and manage risk. Founded in 1999, we have grown into a global organisation supporting over one million users across 120 countries. Backed by Marlin Equity Partners, we are an ambitious, growing business driven by innovation, collaboration, and our people. At StarCompliance, you'll be part of a supportive, inclusive, and collaborative culture where your contributions are valued, your development is encouraged, and you'll have the opportunity to shape both your career and our future. Innovate. Empower. Shape the Future with AI.

At StarCompliance, we’re not just embracing the future of AI – we’re helping shape it. We’re passionate about harnessing AI and emerging technologies to drive innovation, transform how we work, and deliver exceptional value to our clients. We empower our people to think bigger, challenge the norm, and embrace cutting-edge technology to work smarter, enhance creativity, and unlock new possibilities. You'll be part of a forward-thinking environment where fresh ideas are encouraged, innovation thrives, and technology empowers you to make a real impact.

## The Role

At StarCompliance, our DevOps Engineers enable development teams to focus on the creation of software by taking ownership of the delivery of software. We reliably facilitate this through consolidated automation practices, infrastructure as code, and deployment tooling.

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer with strong, demonstrable hands-on experience in CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and automation of the deployments to a Multi-tenant SaaS environment. This role focuses on the creation and maintenance of high-efficiency delivery pipelines and platform automation tooling that support our teams release cadence of infrastructure, databases and software systems at scale.

## Responsibilities

- Design, build, and own the creation of shared CI/CD processes for cloud-hosted applications, data and infrastructure.
- Assist with the automation and maintenance of cloud-hosted infrastructure via Infrastructure as Code.
- Implement platform tooling and automation that supports our tenancy on-boarding process.
- Support deployment, configuration, and environment management across the software platform.
- Collaborate with Development and QA teams to improve build, test, and release workflows.
- Create and evangelise the creation of automation initiatives that improve consistency in our release processes and reduce manual effort where possible.
- Assist with cloud platform reliability and deployment troubleshooting.
- Support colleagues in Product development and SRE as part of a joint responsibility for the successful operation of our software platform.
- Maintain documentation for pipelines and infrastructure components.

## Skills

- Experience with CI/CD tooling and automated deployment pipelines.
- Strong working knowledge of cloud platforms, ideally Microsoft Azure.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools and concepts.
- Familiarity with modern software delivery and DevOps practices.
- Scripting or automation experience is desirable.
- Experience in a high-level programming language such as .NET core is highly beneficial.
- Experience in managing Database systems such as MS SQL is highly beneficial.

Desirable Skills

- Typically, 8 plus  years of relevant DevOps or platform engineering experience
- Experience working in cloud-hosted or SaaS environments, ideally in a multi-tenant environment.

Candidates applying for this role MUST be based in the UK

StarCompliance Background Checks All positions require pre-employment screening due to employees potentially having access to highly sensitive and confidential information involving finance and compliance; candidates must be trustworthy and have a heightened sensitivity to protecting confidential financial, professional information.  To be eligible for employment with StarCompliance, candidates must undergo a rigorous background investigation with checks including, but not limited to, criminal record history, consumer credit, employment history, qualifications, and education checks.

## Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, marital/civil union/domestic partnership status, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by country, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organisation, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. StarCompliance makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time. For more information, please request a copy of our Equal Opportunities Policy.

## About StarCompliance

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: StarCompliance provides employee and firm compliance software that helps regulated companies monitor conflicts of interest, meet regulatory obligations, and reduce risk.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Private Equity-backed by Luminate Capital Partners; last known round: Venture, December 2020)
- **Headquarters**: Rockville, Maryland, United States (with presence in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong; workforce distributed across 6 countries including the US, UK, India, UAE, and Germany)
- **Founded**: Not publicly available (earliest known milestone: 2017 Luminate Capital Partners investment)
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial Services / RegTech — employee compliance software for regulated institutions.
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise — the world’s most reputable companies, including broker-dealers, banks, and financial services firms, operating in 114 countries.
- **Mission / purpose**: "Employee compliance software that protects the world’s most reputable companies against risk and costly conflicts of interest" — helping clients "comply with confidence" via a scalable, cloud-ready platform.

## Products & Services
- **Employee Conflicts of Interest Suite**: A single platform covering personal trading activity, insider trading, private investments, gifts & entertainment spending, outside business activities, and political donations.
- **STAR Mobile App**: Enables on-the-go personal trading pre-clearance requests and gifts & entertainment submissions, with mobile review/approval for compliance officers and supervisors.
- **Compliance Control Room**: Centralizes firm deal-related activity, surfaces critical data, and accelerates deal clearance through easier conflict searches.
- **Crypto Dealing Monitoring**: Pre-clearance and post-trade oversight across 35+ exchanges, 30+ blockchains, and 200+ tokens (expanded via the acquisition of AER Compliance).
- **Firm Trade Surveillance**: Automatically compares firm trades against watch lists and restricted lists to detect potential trading risks.
- **Broker-Dealer Registration**: Registration offering with automated, two-way FINRA integration.
- **Individual Accountability & Training & Competency**: Products supporting clients subject to Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR).
- **MNPI Management**: Centralizes material non-public information oversight with wall crossings, insider lists, and restricted lists.
- **StarAssist**: AI-powered explainability capability that makes compliance decisions more transparent.
- **Prediction Markets Monitoring**: Industry-first solution launched in partnership with Kalshi.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue ~$35M (per LinkedIn company data); 1.35M clients supported (per company website)
- **Funding History**: Private Equity Round (July 2017) led by Luminate Capital Partners; Venture Round (December 2020).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Luminate Capital Partners; technology integrations with Snowflake, Thoughtspot, and PowerBI; partnership with Kalshi.
- **Growth Signals**: 40% Y/Y growth and 99% customer retention rate (per careers page); LinkedIn followers grew +63.8% year-over-year to ~15,167; aggressive hiring in AI, data, and engineering roles; product expansion into crypto and prediction markets monitoring; strategic acquisition of AER Compliance and earlier acquisitions including SixLambda (6L) and Ethix360.

## Competitive Advantages
- **One connected platform**: Uniquely combines employee compliance and firm compliance in a single, real-time solution spanning activities, risks, and decisions.
- **Multi-jurisdictional integrity**: Built for global, cross-border regulatory needs across 114 countries.
- **AI-first, transparent compliance**: StarAssist provides AI-powered explainability — a differentiator in a risk-averse industry.
- **First-mover in emerging asset classes**: Crypto coverage across 35+ exchanges, 30+ blockchains, and 200+ tokens; first-to-market Prediction Markets Monitoring with Kalshi.
- **On-demand configurability and modern integrations**: Cloud-ready architecture with native connectivity to Snowflake, Thoughtspot, and PowerBI.

## Strategic Focus
- **Doubling down on AI**: Actively hiring a Head of Data and AI, Lead AI Engineer (Agentic Systems), and Senior AI Engineers — signaling a platform-wide push toward agentic and explainable AI.
- **Expanding into new regulatory domains**: Prediction markets monitoring (via Kalshi), crypto dealing, and individual accountability/SMCR.
- **Growing firm-wide compliance**: Moving beyond employee conflicts into firm trade surveillance and control room workflows.
- **Post-acquisition integration**: Absorbing AER Compliance and earlier acquisitions (SixLambda, Ethix360) to broaden the suite.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a "fun, fast-moving environment where creativity is rewarded and hard work is valued," with a collaborative culture and values of dignity, trust, and respect.
- **Work model**: Flexible work arrangements and hybrid roles; current UK engineering roles are hybrid in Leeds (AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer) and York (Lead Design Engineer UX/UI and AI); some remote-friendly UK roles (Head of Data and AI).
- **Benefits**: Competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, family-friendly policies, paid time off including bank/public holidays.
- **Learning & development**: Varied learning programs and global "Star Seminars" to keep skills sharp.
- **Employee ratings**: 4.1/5 on LinkedIn (155 reviews) — Work-Life Balance 4.2, Culture 4.2, Career 4.0, Compensation 3.7.
- **Momentum**: 40% Y/Y growth and 99% customer retention provide stability and career upside.

## Sources
1. [starcompliance.com — About Us](https://www.starcompliance.com/about-us/)
2. [starcompliance.com — Home](https://www.starcompliance.com/)
3. [jobs.lever.co — StarCompliance](https://jobs.lever.co/starcompliance)
4. [starcompliance.com — Careers](https://www.starcompliance.com/careers/)
5. [linkedin.com — StarCompliance](https://www.linkedin.com/company/starcompliance)

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