DevOps Lead — Cloud-Native PaaS (Hybrid, Equity)

83zero Ltd; City Of London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A high-growth startup in London is seeking a Technical Lead for their PaaS platform. In this leadership role, you will own the technical vision, lead a distributed team, and design scalable systems on AWS. The ideal candidate will have over 7 years in software engineering with a strong background in DevOps, serverless architecture, and team leadership. This position offers a competitive salary, performance bonus, and a hybrid working environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary + performance bonus

Meaningful equity

Hybrid/remote-first working culture

Autonomy and rapid progression

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software engineering, with 3+ years in DevOps or Technical Lead roles.
• Experience building front-end apps and backend dashboards.
• Deep expertise in serverless/event-driven architecture on AWS.

Responsibilities

• Architect and optimise a high-scale, cloud-native PaaS.
• Drive CI/CD, automation, observability, and reliability.
• Mentor a cross-functional team and raise engineering standards.

Skills

Software engineering

DevOps

Serverless architecture

CI/CD

Leadership

Agile delivery

Containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes)

Tools

AWS

Node.js

Go

Python

Java

Job description

A high-growth startup in London is seeking a Technical Lead for their PaaS platform. In this leadership role, you will own the technical vision, lead a distributed team, and design scalable systems on AWS. The ideal candidate will have over 7 years in software engineering with a strong background in DevOps, serverless architecture, and team leadership. This position offers a competitive salary, performance bonus, and a hybrid working environment.