Remote Principal DevOps Architect - Windows/Linux, CI & HA

Devopsroles; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Intermedia is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to act as the technical lead and architect for infrastructure, automation, and deployments. You will define standards, lead cross‑functional initiatives, and own end‑to‑end reliability from IaC to release engineering and observability.

You will collaborate across Windows/Linux environments, champion Terraform and Ansible, and shape CI/CD pipelines with Octopus Deploy and GitHub.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 7+ years in DevOps/SRE/Infrastructure Engineering with leadership.
• Expert in Windows Server HA and clustering.
• Strong Linux administration and automation.
• Proficient with Terraform and Ansible.
• Experience with Octopus Deploy and GitHub.

Responsibilities

• Act as technical lead for DevOps/Platform/Release engineering: set direction, standards, and best practices.
• Architect end-to-end delivery: infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, CI/CD, release processes, and operations.
• Design and support Windows-based high availability solutions, with deep ownership of Windows clustering.
• Lead Linux automation and platform standardization (configuration, patching, hardening, performance tuning).
• Own Infrastructure as Code strategy with Terraform (modules, environments, state, governance).
• Own automation strategy with Ansible (reusable roles, inventories, secure secrets handling, idempotency).
• Build and standardize deployments using Octopus Deploy, GitHub, and Ansible (templates, shared steps, release promotion, rollback).
• Design and mature CI/CD pipelines (artifact versioning, approvals, promotion strategy, policy-as-code where applicable).
• Establish observability standards using VictoriaMetrics/Prometheus (metrics strategy, alerting, SLO/SLA monitoring, dashboards).
• Provide production leadership: incident response, RCA/postmortems, reliability improvements, capacity planning
• Mentor engineers, review designs/code, and raise overall engineering quality across teams
• Produce and maintain architecture docs, runbooks, and platform roadmaps.

Skills

Technical leadership

Cloud infrastructure

Windows clustering

Linux automation

CI/CD orchestration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Octopus Deploy

GitHub

Prometheus

Job description

Intermedia is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to act as the technical lead and architect for infrastructure, automation, and deployments. You will define standards, lead cross‑functional initiatives, and own end‑to‑end reliability from IaC to release engineering and observability.

You will collaborate across Windows/Linux environments, champion Terraform and Ansible, and shape CI/CD pipelines with Octopus Deploy and GitHub.