Remote Principal DevOps Engineer (AWS, Kubernetes, SaaS)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Development budget

Pension

Health and dental cover

25 days holiday

Remote working UK

Job summary

Gearset Limited is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to own and evolve our multi-region, AWS-based infrastructure. You’ll work with Kubernetes, Terraform and a .NET stack to ensure scalable, secure services and reliable, frequent deployments across teams, while driving improvements in CI/CD, security, observability and incident response.

Join a product-driven engineering culture where autonomy and collaboration are valued.

Qualifications

• In-depth experience with AWS (VPC networking and security, IAM, EC2, Postgres RDS, S3, EKS).
• Experience configuring and running CI/CD pipelines with NET/C#.
• Proven track record in agile teams delivering value early.
• Experience building observability and alerting into systems.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve multi-region AWS-based infrastructure.
• Drive CI/CD, security, observability and incident response improvements.
• Collaborate with product, design, data, marketing and sales teams to deliver value.
• Mentor engineers and shape the technical roadmap.

Skills

AWS

CI/CD

Kubernetes

.NET

Terraform

Agile

Observability

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

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.

Key skills and experience

• 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.

Opportunity

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