Remote DevOps Tech Lead: Cloud & Platform Modernization

Jobgether; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Competitive compensation

Education reimbursement

Professional learning resources

Technical ownership

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking a DevOps Tech Lead in the United Kingdom to lead a team of engineers responsible for building and operating the core platform behind a large-scale online learning environment.

You will drive modernization from on-premise to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with a focus on Kubernetes, security, scalability, and business continuity, while mentoring the team and setting engineering standards.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Eng.
• 2+ years mentoring/leading a team
• 3+ years operating Kubernetes in production (GKE preferred)
• 3+ years with a major cloud provider and IaC
• Senior/Staff/Principal level technical ownership and architecture
• Experience with CI/CD and GitOps workflows
• Experience incident response and postmortems
• Experience with self-hosted observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and operation of core infrastructure components (K8s, CI/CD, databases, observability).
• Drive migration of on-prem workloads to GCP (GKE) ensuring scalable, secure cloud infra.
• Modernize legacy systems; reduce operational overhead and consolidate tech stack.
• Design and maintain cloud infra using IaC across GCP, networking, IAM, KMS, and secrets.
• Develop and optimize CI/CD and GitOps using FluxCD/ArgoCD for reliable deployments.
• Strengthen security, business continuity, disaster recovery, and resilience.

Skills

Leadership & mentoring

Strategic architecture

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes (GKE)

FluxCD

ArgoCD

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Istio

Terraform / IaC

Job description

Jobgether is seeking a DevOps Tech Lead in the United Kingdom to lead a team of engineers responsible for building and operating the core platform behind a large-scale online learning environment.

You will drive modernization from on-premise to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with a focus on Kubernetes, security, scalability, and business continuity, while mentoring the team and setting engineering standards.