Principal DevOps/SRE Architect

In2 Saas Recruitment; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home-office stipend £1,000

100% remote across Europe

28 days holiday + bank holidays

Job summary

In2 Saas Recruitment partners with a global EdTech SaaS leader to hire a Principal DevOps / Site Reliability Architect. You will own reliability, automation, and FinOps for a high-scale platform that serves millions of users across 40 countries.

You will architect multi-region AWS infrastructure with Terraform, lead 99.99% availability, and shape zero-downtime deployments while optimizing cloud spend. Expect strong collaboration with core development teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in DevOps, Infra, or SRE in production SaaS.
• Deep AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), and Terraform expertise.
• Strong Python, Go, or Bash scripting skills.
• Remote work across Europe, with home-office stipend.

Responsibilities

• Architect multi-region AWS infrastructure using Terraform.
• Build and refine CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD).
• Implement observability with Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

AWS

Kubernetes (EKS)

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Scripting (Python/Go/Bash)

Observability/Monitoring

FinOps

Tools

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Company Overview

Our client is a global leader in EdTech SaaS, developing digital learning infrastructure used by over 5 million students and educators across 40 countries. With platform usage surging globally, they require a Principal DevOps / Site Reliability Architect to lead the reliability, automation, and security scaling of their platform infrastructure.

Position Overview

You will be the core technical authority for system availability, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines. Working closely with core development teams, you will ensure high availability (99.99%), zero-downtime deployment pipelines, and efficient cloud spend management (FinOps).

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect, implement, and maintain multi-region cloud infrastructure on AWS using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Build and refine CI/CD automated deployment pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD).
• Implement comprehensive observability, tracing, and monitoring stacks (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Establish incident response protocols and perform blameless post-mortems for operational improvements.

Key Requirements:

• 7+ yearsin DevOps, Infrastructure, or Site Reliability Engineering within production SaaS environments.
• Deep operational expertise with AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), and Terraform.
• Strong scripting/programming skills in Python, Go, or Bash.
• Passion for modern FinOps principles and infrastructure cost management.
• 100% remote working environment across Europe.
• Home-office setup stipend (£1,000).
• 28 days holiday + bank holidays.