Senior DevOps Engineer

LaraBench

Manchester

Hybrid

GBP 55,000 - 65,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Flexible hours

Bonus scheme

Parental benefits

Team events

Job summary

LaraBench is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to support and evolve cloud infrastructure in a fully remote setup. You will mentor colleagues, design scalable infrastructure, and drive best practices across deployment, testing, and monitoring. Ideal candidates have 5+ years in DevOps, strong Terraform and AWS skills, and a proactive, collaborative mindset.

You will work across AWS services, contribute to IaC, and help shape architecture and tooling choices within a growing Agile engineering team.

Qualifications

5+ years of commercial DevOps or infrastructure experience.
Proficient with Terraform in large-scale environments.
Experience designing reusable Terraform modules.
Strong Bash/Shell scripting.
Awareness of cloud costs and cost visibility.
Experience deploying and maintaining PHP systems (PHP 7/8).
Strong Linux (Ubuntu) administration experience.
Familiarity with ETL processes and relational databases (SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL).
Experience with MPP data warehouses such as Snowflake or similar.
Understanding of Microservices architecture.
High proficiency with Git.
Experience with HashiCorp Packer for AMI builds.
Experience at scale in AWS (ASG, ALB, ECS, RDS Aurora, Redshift, Lambda, ElastiCache).
Experience deploying and maintaining queuing and caching tech (Kafka/MSK, Redis).

Responsibilities

Mentor colleagues and share knowledge within the DevOps team.
Plan and break down complex technical work into manageable tasks.
Improve deployment processes, rollback strategies, monitoring, and migration approaches.
Contribute to coding standards and peer reviews.
Drive improvements to DevOps practices and introduce new tooling and ideas.

Skills

Terraform

AWS

Incident management

Scripting (Bash)

Cost awareness

PHP knowledge

Linux (Ubuntu)

Git

Mentoring

Scale experience

IaC

Tools

Packer

Docker

Kubernetes

SQL

NoSQL

Redis

Kafka/MSK

Job description

Role : Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: UK based

Work pattern: Fully remote

Salary: £55,000 - £65,000

We are looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join a growing Agile engineering team. This role will focus on supporting and maintaining existing cloud infrastructure, whilst also contributing to the design and development of modern, scalable, and high-performing infrastructure solutions.

Team players are essential for us, as this position will include supporting the wider DevOps team by mentoring colleagues, sharing knowledge, and helping to build confidence across technical areas. You will also contribute to planning complex technical work, breaking down deliverables into manageable tasks, and supporting the team in managing uncertainty. In addition, we are looking for someone to play a key role in improving DevOps practices, bringing experience in infrastructure testing, Terraform best practices, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and introducing alternative technologies where appropriate.

You will work across a range of AWS technologies, supporting infrastructure hosted on services including ASGs, ECS, RDS Aurora MySQL, MSK, ElastiCache, S3, and Redshift Spectrum. This is an exciting opportunity to join a team during a period of technical growth, with platform upgrades and ongoing discussions around architecture, technology, and future direction. The ideal candidate will drive improvements to deployment processes, rollback strategies, monitoring, and migration approaches, while contributing to coding standards, peer reviews, and the adoption of new ideas and engineering best practices.

What are we looking for?

The Essentials

Experience managing live production environments, including incidents, production changes, and new system rollouts
Highly proficient with Terraform, particularly within large-scale environments
Experience designing and creating reusable Terraform modules
Strong familiarity with Bash/Shell scripting
Awareness of cloud costs and cost visibility
Experience deploying and maintaining PHP systems, including PHP 7 and PHP 8
Strong experience working with Linux systems, particularly Ubuntu
Familiarity with ETL processes and tools
Experience working with relational databases including SQL, MySQL, and PostgreSQL
Experience deploying and maintaining MPP data warehouses such as Snowflake or similar
Understanding of Microservices architecture
High proficiency with Git
Experience using HashiCorp Packer for AMI builds
5+ years of commercial experience in a DevOps or infrastructure-focused role
Experience working at scale
Deep hands-on experience with AWS, ideally with 5+ years' experience using:
- ASG
- ALB
- ECS
- CloudFront
- Redshift
- Lambda
- ElastiCache
- RDS (Aurora)
- Control Tower

The Desirables

Previous experience with affiliate tracking, data integrations, or similar environments
Experience delivering near-zero downtime database migrations
Experience writing automated tests and infrastructure tests
Multi-cloud experience
Experience designing and supporting high-traffic applications
Strong Python proficiency
Experience using, configuring, and deploying Docker containers
Experience hosting APIs including REST and GraphQL
Experience working with various database technologies, including NoSQL
Mentoring, team leadership, or management experience
Experience participating in on-call or out-of-hours support
Experience handling and manipulating large datasets
Experience hosting Single Page Applications and static websites, such as Nuxt.js or Next.js
Experience migrating legacy infrastructure into Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
Experience with data engineering, particularly leveraging Machine Learning to gain insights
Experience with Laravel and PHP version upgrades
Experience deploying and maintaining queuing and caching technologies including:
- Kafka/MSK
- Redis/Valkey
- RabbitMQ