Senior DevOps Engineer — Remote, Flexible Hours

Candour; Manchester; Remote; GBP 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Flexible hours

Enhanced maternity/paternity and sick

Job summary

Candour is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer for a fully remote role. The position offers £65,000-£75,000 per year and involves maintaining existing infrastructure and building scalable new systems from Manchester.

You will mentor junior engineers and help shape deployment, monitoring, and migration strategies. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in a commercial environment, strong AWS and Terraform experience, and deep Linux expertise.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a commercial environment.
• Working on large-scale projects.
• Extensive hands-on AWS experience (5+ years).
• Terraform proficiency, particularly at scale and in the creation of reusable modules.
• Fluency with bash/shell scripts.
• Experience in costing.
• Linux systems (ubuntu).
• Management of live environments.

Responsibilities

• Maintain existing infrastructure and create new, performant infrastructure to meet business needs.
• Bridge gaps between lead and junior DevOps engineers and mentor colleagues.
• Break down complex work into manageable pieces and contribute to deployment, rollback, monitoring, and migration strategies.
• Promote coding standards, peer review and new ideas to improve delivery.

Skills

Mentoring

Infrastructure testing

Communication

Lead experience

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Bash

Linux (Ubuntu)

Costing

Job description

Candour is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer for a fully remote role. The position offers £65,000-£75,000 per year and involves maintaining existing infrastructure and building scalable new systems from Manchester.

You will mentor junior engineers and help shape deployment, monitoring, and migration strategies. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in a commercial environment, strong AWS and Terraform experience, and deep Linux expertise.