Remote Principal DevOps Engineer — AWS, Kubernetes & SaaS

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

Benefits offered by this job

Remote in the UK

Personal development budget up to £150

Top-end hardware

Long Term Incentive Plan

Free lunch

25 days holiday + bank holidays (+5)

Company Pension Plan (matching 5%)

Bupa health care and dental insurance

Enhanced family leave from day 1

Bupa Menopause Plan

Life Insurance

Job summary

Gearset Limited is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to collaborate with a product-driven team and shape our infrastructure across regions, powered by AWS and Kubernetes. You’ll enable rapid, safe releases and infrastructure evolution for a growing SaaS platform.

You'll own security, reliability and automation while mentoring a self-directed team and influencing the technical roadmap. This is a remote UK role with strong autonomy and collaboration across the business.

Qualifications

• In-depth AWS experience (VPC, IAM, EC2, RDS, S3, EKS)
• Kubernetes production experience and cluster management
• Terraform for infra automation
• CI/CD pipeline configuration and operation
• Experience with hosted multi-tenant SaaS at scale
• Strong feedback culture and pragmatic mindset
• Iterative delivery over excessive process

Responsibilities

• Operate and evolve infrastructure to scale with user growth
• Collaborate with developers to ensure harmony between app and infra
• Lead security initiatives to protect customer data
• Deliver infrastructure that supports impactful work across Gearset
• Contribute to an autonomous, roadmap-driven team

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Security

SaaS

Multi-tenant

Automation

Tools

Docker

Job description

Gearset Limited is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to collaborate with a product-driven team and shape our infrastructure across regions, powered by AWS and Kubernetes. You’ll enable rapid, safe releases and infrastructure evolution for a growing SaaS platform.

You'll own security, reliability and automation while mentoring a self-directed team and influencing the technical roadmap. This is a remote UK role with strong autonomy and collaboration across the business.