Senior DevOps Lead — Cloud-Native, Serverless, Equity

83zero; England; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Performance bonus

Equity in the company

Autonomy in work

Growth opportunities

Job summary

A leading tech startup in the UK seeks an experienced DevOps Lead to guide the technical direction of a cutting-edge PaaS platform. You will lead a distributed team in developing high-performance APIs and building scalable systems primarily on AWS. The ideal candidate has over 7 years of experience in software engineering, particularly in DevOps, and is proficient in multiple programming languages. This full-time position offers competitive salary, equity, and significant career growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software engineering with DevOps or Technical Lead experience.
• Experience building front-end apps and dashboard backends.
• Deep expertise in AWS services and architectures.
• Strong leadership ability with distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Architect and optimise a high-scale cloud-native PaaS.
• Champion CI/CD, automation, and reliability.
• Design and maintain secure public APIs.
• Build real-time distributed systems on AWS.
• Mentor cross-functional teams in engineering standards.

Skills

Serverless/event-driven architecture on AWS

CI/CD

Agile delivery

Containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes)

Leadership of distributed engineering teams

Proficiency in Node.js

Proficiency in Go

Proficiency in Python

Proficiency in Java

Frontend frameworks

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Lambda

DynamoDB

Kinesis

Job description

A leading tech startup in the UK seeks an experienced DevOps Lead to guide the technical direction of a cutting-edge PaaS platform. You will lead a distributed team in developing high-performance APIs and building scalable systems primarily on AWS. The ideal candidate has over 7 years of experience in software engineering, particularly in DevOps, and is proficient in multiple programming languages. This full-time position offers competitive salary, equity, and significant career growth opportunities.