Senior DevOps Engineer - Remote, Scale & Automation Leader

LaraBench; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

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

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.