Remote Principal DevOps Engineer (AWS, Kubernetes, SaaS)

Gearset Limited; Brigg; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Personal development budget

Long Term Incentive Plan

Free lunch in the office

25 days holiday + 5 days buy

Company pension plan (5% match)

Bupa health care and dental insurance

Enhanced family leave

Discounted gym membership

Job summary

Gearset Limited is looking for a Principal DevOps Engineer to join a product-driven engineering culture. You will work on critical infrastructure, using Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform and .NET to build a scalable, secure, and reliable service that supports rapid growth.

You will own automation enabling frequent safe releases, boost security, and collaborate with developers, designers, data engineers, marketers and sales to deliver real value for customers.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in DevOps for SaaS infrastructure.
• Strong automation and release engineering skills.
• Experience with multi-region deployments and cloud security.
• Ability to work in agile teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain automation enabling frequent safe releases.
• Enhance security and incident detection/responses.
• Collaborate with developers, designers, data engineers, and marketing/sales.
• Scale multi-tenant infrastructure across regions.

Skills

AWS

PostgreSQL (RDS)

S3

EKS

CI/CD pipelines

.NET / C#

Agile development

Observability & monitoring

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Job description

impact. Work on critical production infrastructure used by thousands of teams and help us to maintain our excellent reputation for delivering a service with minimal downtime, even when we're making complex changes behind the scenes. Get involved in building and maintaining the automation that allows our engineering team to safely release updates to our product multiple times per day. Continuously improve the security of our infrastructure and our ability to detect and respond to issues. Collaborate with and support teams across the organisation, including developers, designers, data engineers, marketers and salespeople, to make a real difference to our customers.

Operate and evolve our infrastructure to help scale for an ever-growing user base, and support a team developing our increasingly sophisticated SaaS Lead initiatives to fortify our security measures and keep our customers data secure

• Have in-depth practical experience working on AWS (VPC networking and security, IAM, EC2)


• Postgres RDS, S3, EKS


• Experience in the configuration and running of a CI/CD pipeline NET/C#


• Experience working in an agile development team with a focus on delivering value early


• Experience with building observability and alerting into systems

This is a full time opportunity, working Monday to Friday remotely in the UK.

Benefits

• Generous personal development budget for courses, conferences, or whatever is useful to your professional development in the role of up to £1500 per year


• Opportunity to join our Long Term Incentive Plan


• Free lunch in the office


• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (with the option to buy an extra 5 each year)


• Company Pension Plan (matching up to 5%)


• Bupa health care and dental insurance


• Enhanced family leave from day 1, including 26 weeks full maternity/adoption pay, OTE-inclusive Life Insurance & critical illness cover


• Discounted gym membership, as well as a range of health and wellness benefits

As a product-driven company founded by engineers, we know the value of a great engineering culture, and we re looking for a Principal DevOps Engineer to join a team built from the ground up on trust, teamwork and tight feedback loops. You ll work collaboratively using a modern tech stack (Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, .NET) to help Gearset run a scalable, secure and reliable service, and enable development of the solution to scale with the rapid growth of the company. We live by our core values, which aren t just nice words - they guide us through day-to-day challenges and are the foundation of how we work together.

What s the opportunity for a Principal DevOps Engineer at Gearset?

Be an integral part of building and supporting our multi-tenant infrastructure, running in multiple regions across the globe, all powered by AWS and Kubernetes. Enjoy high autonomy and real ownership to help shape and drive our technical roadmap based on where you see the greatest value and engineering