Senior DevOps Engineer – Autonomous Cloud & CI/CD Lead

Inara; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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25 days holiday

Vitality health insurance

Enhanced pension

MacBook Pro

Equipment budget

Flexible hybrid working

Job summary

Inara in Manchester is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to own production platform reliability and infrastructure builds with autonomy, collaborating with the platform team. You’ll drive AWS-based operations, IaC, and CI/CD in a scaling SaaS setting.

The role offers a flexible hybrid model (Manchester office 1–2 days/week) and a focus on automating complex platform work. Equity and competitive benefits are provided.

Qualifications

• Solid, proven experience as a DevOps or Platform Engineer in a scaling SaaS environment.
• Strong working knowledge of AWS services and Terraform.
• Experience with CI/CD workflows, GitHub Actions.
• Autonomous working style with the ability to prioritise workload.
• Collaborative approach with software engineering teams.
• Strong troubleshooting instincts and pragmatic mindset.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of day-to-day production platform reliability, focusing on web crawl and message processing systems.
• Build and maintain monitoring and observability tooling using Grafana, Sentry, Prometheus, CloudWatch and PagerDuty.
• Manage Linux-based systems (Amazon Linux 2023) and keep them running smoothly.
• Work hands-on across core AWS services: Lambda, ECS Fargate, SQS, SNS, Aurora (PostgreSQL & MySQL) and S3.
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Own and improve CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions.
• Partner with software engineering teams to embed good DevOps practice into their day-to-day workflows.
• Address developer experience issues and help resolve security concerns as they come up.
• Manage secrets securely across CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

DevOps

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Autonomous

Collaborative

Troubleshooting

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Grafana

Prometheus

CloudWatch

PagerDuty

Job description

Inara in Manchester is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to own production platform reliability and infrastructure builds with autonomy, collaborating with the platform team. You’ll drive AWS-based operations, IaC, and CI/CD in a scaling SaaS setting.

The role offers a flexible hybrid model (Manchester office 1–2 days/week) and a focus on automating complex platform work. Equity and competitive benefits are provided.