DevOps Engineer

Pixaera; Manchester; Remote; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

25 days holiday

Equipment provided

Offsites

Flat culture

Job summary

Pixaera is seeking an infrastructure engineer to own production systems end to end, automating and scaling across AWS, CI/CD, monitoring and security. This remote-first team builds an engineering presence across Europe, the Middle East, and Amman, with UK collaboration from Manchester.

You will own reliability by defining SLOs, incident response, and runbooks; design reusable CI/CD workflows; scale heavy workloads; optimize cloud spend; and contribute to security reviews in a fast-paced, async

Qualifications

• 3–6 years in DevOps, platform, SRE or infrastructure engineering.
• Strong hands-on AWS — built and operated real production infrastructure.
• Terraform in earnest: modules, state, code review, recovery from a bad apply.
• Kubernetes in production — diagnose pods, ingress, and rollouts with confidence.
• CI/CD ownership, ideally GitHub Actions.
• Scripting in Python/Go/Bash to automate recurring tasks.

Responsibilities

• Own full-stack infrastructure: cloud, CI/CD, monitoring, security, and developer experience.
• Own reliability: define SLOs, incident response, and runbooks; make on-call sustainable.
• Design reusable CI/CD workflows and manage self-hosted runners and images.
• Scale compute-heavy workloads and take designs from paper to production.
• Develop cloud cost strategy with tagging, right-sizing, and spend visibility.
• Drive security and compliance through secrets, least privilege, and patching.

Skills

DevOps/SRE

AWS

Scripting (Python/Go/Bash)

CI/CD

Kubernetes in prod

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

AWS

Job description

About Pixaera

Pixaera builds immersive and AI-generated health & safety training used by industrial workforces — mining, oil & gas, energy and data centres. Our platform trains thousands of people every day for enterprise customers across Europe and the Middle East. We are a small, senior, remote-first engineering team, and we are now building an engineering presence in Amman.

The role in one line

An infrastructure engineer who can confidently own production systems end to end, and who instinctively automates anything that shouldn't need a human.

What you'll actually work on

• Full-stack infrastructure ownership. Deep, hands-on experience across cloud, CI/CD, monitoring, security and developer experience. You make infrastructure decisions independently, drive platform modernisation, and are trusted with production.
• Reliability leadership. You set and track SLOs (uptime, deploy frequency, recovery time), own incident response, and build the runbooks and practices that make on-call sustainable.
• Build and pipeline architecture. You design reusable, versioned CI/CD workflows and manage self-hosted runner fleets as code, with golden images and self-healing. Unreal Engine or Windows build experience is a strong plus.
• Scaling compute-heavy workloads. You've scaled long-running render or batch workloads and taken designs from paper to production.
• Cloud cost strategy. You have a track record of measurable savings through tagging, right-sizing, spot and reserved capacity, and spend visibility.
• Security and compliance. You bring expertise in secrets management, least-privilege access and patching. Experience with SOC 2, pen testing, and enterprise security reviews is valued.

Our stack

• Cloud: AWS as primary — multi-account (management / dev / staging / production), multi-region (Frankfurt and UAE). Some GCP for rendering.
• IaC & GitOps: Terraform with Atlantis, ArgoCD, Helm.
• Kubernetes: Amazon EKS, Karpenter, External DNS, AWS Load Balancer Controller, IRSA, external secrets.
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions including self-hosted Windows runners for Unreal builds. TeamCity still in legacy use.
• Observability: Datadog (APM, logs, monitors, cloud cost), CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry.
• Security: Vanta, AWS Security Hub and Inspector, 1Password, Tailscale, Dependabot.
• Also in the picture: Docker, PostgreSQL/RDS, Redis, S3, Lambda, GPU instances, Unreal Engine and pixel streaming.

Must-haves

• 3–6 years in DevOps, platform, SRE or infrastructure engineering.
• Strong hands-on AWS — you've built and operated real production infrastructure, not just consumed it.
• Terraform in earnest: modules, state, code review, and having recovered from a bad apply.
• Kubernetes in production — can debug a failing pod, a broken ingress or a stuck rollout without guessing.
• CI/CD pipeline ownership, ideally GitHub Actions.
• Confident scripting in Python, Go or Bash — enough to automate rather than repeat.
• A monitoring and incident instinct: alerts that mean something, and the discipline to write the runbook afterwards.
• Comfortable being the person who owns a problem in a small team, and asking for help early when it's outside your depth.
• Strong written English — we're largely async and written, and documentation is part of the job.

Nice-to-haves

• ArgoCD, Helm or GitOps workflows specifically.
• Cloud cost optimisation with results you can point to.
• Windows build agents, or game/graphics build pipelines (Unreal, Perforce).
• GPU workloads and render infrastructure.
• SOC 2 / ISO 27001 support, penetration test coordination, or compliance automation (Vanta or similar).
• Datadog specifically.

Location, setup and comp

Working day should overlap UK hours; English is our working language. Compensation is competitive and benchmarked to the Amman market.

Interview process

Intro call with our recruiting partner → hiring manager conversation → technical interview with our platform and engineering leads → short practical exercise or troubleshooting session → final conversation with the team. We aim to move within 3–4 weeks.

How do we support and benefit our employees:

• Competitive salary and stock options — everyone shares in what we're building
• 25 days holiday + public holidays
• Fully equipped setup from day one (no waiting for laptops)
• Regular company offsites and team socials
• A flat, transparent culture with direct access to leadership

At Pixaera, we're committed to building a workplace where everyone feels respected, supported, and empowered to thrive. We believe that diverse perspectives fuel creativity and innovation, which is why we celebrate individuality and foster an environment of inclusion and belonging.

We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer — discrimination of any kind has no place here. No matter your background, identity, or lived experience, you're welcome at Pixaera.