Remote Principal DevOps Engineer (AWS, Kubernetes, SaaS)

Gearset Limited; Caerphilly; Remote; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote UK work

Development budget up to £1500/yr

Premium hardware

Long Term Incentive Plan

25 days holiday + 5

Pension Plan (5% match)

Bupa health care and dental insurance

Enhanced family leave

Job summary

Gearset is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to scale and secure our SaaS platform using Kubernetes, AWS, and Terraform. You’ll enable rapid, reliable product development and deploys from development to production.

You’ll collaborate with developers to maintain harmony between apps and infrastructure, drive security improvements, and guide a self-directed team with a clear roadmap and autonomy.

Qualifications

• Extensive AWS experience (VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, RDS, EKS) with security focus.
• Production Kubernetes experience and cluster management.
• Hands-on Terraform for infrastructure automation.
• CI/CD pipeline configuration and operation.
• Experience supporting hosted multi-tenant SaaS at scale.
• Strong feedback culture and collaboration.
• Pragmatic, iterative approach delivering value.

Responsibilities

• Operate and evolve infrastructure to scale for a growing user base.
• Collaborate with developers to ensure harmony between apps and infra, safe rollouts.
• Lead initiatives to fortify security and protect customer data.
• Work with Gearset teams to deliver infra supporting impactful work.
• Contribute experience to a self-directed team with autonomous roadmap.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Security

SaaS

Pragmatic

Tools

.NET/C#

Job description

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. Our pragmatic approach has allowed us to maintain the ability to release updates to our application multiple times a day, even as we add new features to the product and expand our global footprint.

What you'll achieve

Operate and evolve our infrastructure to help scale for an ever-growing user base, and support a team developing
our increasingly sophisticated SaaS Work closely with developers to ensure our application and infrastructure work in harmony, using your expertise and rigour to make sure changes are rolled out safely and smoothly Lead initiatives to fortify our security measures and keep our customers' data secure Work with teams across Gearset to deliver infrastructure that supports their impactful work Contribute your experience and insight to a collaborative, self-directed team with autonomy over its roadmap and practices

About you

• Have in-depth practical experience working on AWS (VPC networking and security, IAM, EC2, Postgres RDS, S3, EKS)
• Have experience running production-level services in Kubernetes and managing and maintaining clusters
• Practical experience automating the management of infrastructure with Terraform
• Experience in the configuration and running of a CI/CD pipeline
• Previous experience supporting the operation of a hosted, multi-tenant SaaS product at scale
• Comfortable giving and receiving constructive feedback to make your work even better
• Approach your work with pragmatism, prioritising iteration, and delivering value over process and deliberation

Great to haves

• Experience with .NET/C#
• Experience working in an agile development team with a focus on delivering value early
• Experience with building observability and alerting into systems

Benefits (the stuff you'd expect!)

• This is a full time opportunity, working Monday to Friday remotely in the UK
• Generous personal development budget for courses, conferences, or whatever is useful to your professional development in the role of up to £1500 per year
• Top end hardware provided
• 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 Bupa Menopause Plan offering specialist consultations and support
• Life Insurance