Lead DevOps Engineer – AWS, Kubernetes, SaaS (Remote)

Gearset; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous personal development budget

Top end hardware provided

Long Term Incentive Plan

Free lunch in the office

25 days holiday + BH

Company Pension Plan

Bupa health care & dental

Enhanced family leave

Life Insurance & critical illness

Discounted gym membership

Job summary

Gearset is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to lead our scalable, secure cloud infrastructure. You’ll own critical production systems across regions, with a strong emphasis on reliability, security, and rapid feature releases.

This role offers high autonomy to shape the technical roadmap and collaborate with cross-functional teams. You will work with Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, and .NET in a fast-growing environment, delivering updates multiple times per day while maintaining excellent

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience running production-grade AWS/Kubernetes environments.
• Experience building and securing multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure.
• Proficient with Terraform and CI/CD automation.

Responsibilities

• Scale infrastructure to support a growing user base and expanding SaaS product.
• Collaborate with developers to ensure safe, reliable deployments and rollouts.
• Fortify security measures and improve threat detection and incident response.
• Deliver infrastructure that supports cross-team impact and fast feature delivery.
• Operate with autonomy within a roadmap-driven, self-directed team.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Security

Observability

Agile

Leadership

Job description

Gearset is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to lead our scalable, secure cloud infrastructure. You’ll own critical production systems across regions, with a strong emphasis on reliability, security, and rapid feature releases.

This role offers high autonomy to shape the technical roadmap and collaborate with cross-functional teams. You will work with Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, and .NET in a fast-growing environment, delivering updates multiple times per day while maintaining excellent