Infrastructure Engineer

Tact; Manchester; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

Tact in Manchester is seeking a hands-on Infrastructure DevOps Engineer to own production Kubernetes clusters across bare‑metal and cloud environments. You will build and refine CI/CD pipelines for rapid, reliable deployments and manage monitoring, security, and incident response as the platform scales.

Ideal candidates bring strong Linux/networking fundamentals, experience with self-hosted infra, and tools like Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ArgoCD, Ansible, Go and Python.

Qualifications

• Experience running Kubernetes clusters in production.
• Hands-on with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Solid Linux and networking fundamentals.
• Experience with self-hosted infrastructure, not just managed clouds.
• Understanding of SOC 2, incident management and on‑call responsibilities.
• Proactive, curious and ownership‑driven in a small team.
• Experience with monitoring tools like Prometheus/Grafana/OpenTelemetry.

Responsibilities

• Taking ownership of Kubernetes clusters across bare‑metal and cloud environments.
• Building and improving CI/CD pipelines so engineers can deploy quickly and reliably.
• Managing monitoring, observability and infrastructure performance.
• Owning SOC 2 processes, incident reporting and infrastructure security.
• Troubleshooting infrastructure issues and participating in on‑call support.
• Making technical decisions around platform scaling as the company grows.

Skills

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Linux fundamentals

SOC 2 / incident management

On-call ownership

Infrastructure ownership

Personal infra projects

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Go

Python

Ansible

ArgoCD

Job description

Infrastructure DevOps Engineer // Manchester // Up to £60,000

Want to take ownership of infrastructure that handles over 25 billion requests every month?

I'm working with a Manchester tech startup building the infrastructure that powers web data collection, automation and AI agents.

They're operating globally across 195+ countries, and they're now looking for a hands‑on DevOps Engineer to take ownership of their infrastructure as the business scales.

This isn't a role where you'll just be managing cloud services. You'll be building, improving and owning the systems that the engineering team relies on every day.

What you'll be doing:

• Taking ownership of Kubernetes clusters across bare‑metal and cloud environments.
• Building and improving CI/CD pipelines so engineers can deploy quickly and reliably.
• Managing monitoring, observability and infrastructure performance.
• Owning SOC 2 processes, incident reporting and infrastructure security.
• Troubleshooting infrastructure issues and participating in on‑call support.
• Making technical decisions around how the platform scales as the company grows.

What they're looking for:

• Commercial experience running Kubernetes clusters in production.
• Strong hands‑on experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Solid Linux and networking fundamentals.
• Experience with self‑hosted infrastructure, rather than solely managed cloud services.
• Understanding of SOC 2, incident management and on‑call responsibilities.
• Someone proactive, curious and comfortable taking ownership in a small team.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana or OpenTelemetry.
• Knowledge of Go, Python, Ansible or ArgoCD.
• Experience with bare‑metal infrastructure, BGP or IP networking.
• Personal infrastructure projects.

Real ownership: Take responsibility for the infrastructure and influence technical decisions.

Interesting scale: Work on systems processing billions of requests every month.

Profitable and growing: Join an established, bootstrapped business with strong commercial traction.

AI infrastructure: Help build the technology supporting the next generation of AI agents and automation.

Career growth: Join a small engineering team with further hiring and expansion planned.

You’ll be working from their office in Manchester City Centre.