Principal DevOps Engineer — Remote, AWS & Kubernetes

Few&Far; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software company in Manchester seeks a Principal DevOps Engineer to enhance a large SaaS platform. This hands-on position involves managing and evolving production infrastructure across AWS and Kubernetes, fostering collaboration across teams, and delivering secure and scalable solutions. Candidates should have over 5 years of DevOps experience, strong AWS skills, and familiarity with Terraform. Remote work is possible, with excellent benefits including a competitive salary up to £100k and generous holiday allowance.

Benefits

Competitive salary up to £100k

Remote working with occasional team meetings

Learning & development budget

Long-term incentive plan

Private healthcare & wellbeing benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps / Platform / Infrastructure roles.
• Strong hands-on AWS experience including networking, IAM, and compute.
• Production Kubernetes experience required.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Experience in running and improving CI / CD.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve production infrastructure across AWS and Kubernetes.
• Support a global, multi-tenant SaaS platform.
• Build and maintain infrastructure automation and CI/CD pipelines.
• Improve security, monitoring, and incident response.
• Collaborate with engineers across product, data, and commercial teams.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Job description

A leading software company in Manchester seeks a Principal DevOps Engineer to enhance a large SaaS platform. This hands-on position involves managing and evolving production infrastructure across AWS and Kubernetes, fostering collaboration across teams, and delivering secure and scalable solutions. Candidates should have over 5 years of DevOps experience, strong AWS skills, and familiarity with Terraform. Remote work is possible, with excellent benefits including a competitive salary up to £100k and generous holiday allowance.