Staff DevOps Engineer - Remote (Aligned with UK timezone) Remote (Aligned with UK timezone) ◆

Accredible & Build; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to lead the development and maintenance of infrastructure that supports millions of users. In this remote role, you will have the autonomy to shape infrastructure strategy while working with a cross-functional team. You will implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices, ensuring high standards of security and performance. This position offers a collaborative environment geared towards personal and professional growth, with a focus on continuous learning and improvement. Join a dynamic team that values proactive contributions and fosters a culture of support and ambition.

Benefits

35 days annual vacation

Generous sick time

Flexible hours

Learning budget for courses and materials

Paid learning time

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with infrastructure tooling and architecture.
• Familiarity with modern IaC practices, especially Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Lead implementation and architecture of mission-critical infrastructure systems.
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams to deliver robust solutions.

Skills

Terraform

AWS

Grafana

GitHub Actions

Job description

Staff DevOps Engineer - Remote (Aligned with UK timezone)

As a Staff DevOps Engineer at Accredible, you’ll be responsible for creating and maintaining infrastructure that serves millions of users every month. You’ll be creating new infrastructure projects from scratch, improving the existing infrastructure as code for the services which power www.credential.net, dashboard.accredible.com, and other web properties, alongside new products and deployments to continue working toward our mission.

You’ll be working with a number of different technologies, including but not limited to:

• Terraform and Terragrunt
• AWS
• Grafana
• Github action

Our approach is Agile, test heavy and we push releases many times per week.

You’ll have a cross functional team to work with, including: our VP Engineering as your direct manager, another Senior Engineer responsible for DevOps, backend engineers, frontend engineers, quality engineers, UI/UX designers and a product manager.

We’ll be expecting high quality work but don’t worry - you’ll receive constructive feedback and guidance on a regular basis. We invest in individual development and growth

You’ll have autonomy, trust and influence over infrastructure strategy. We believe we succeed or fail as a team and there is always room for improvement. Everybody has input and the ability to make our work and the way we work better.

We’re looking for someone who’s deeply hands-on, passionate about delivery, and excited to collaborate across teams.

This is a remote role, and we’re happy for you to work from any location within: UK, India, Egypt, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Pakistan, but we would like for you to attend meetings that align roughly with UK time (GMT). So long as you attend meetings with your team, you can make your own choices on when and how to work.

Key responsibilities

• Lead hands-on implementation and architecture of mission-critical infrastructure systems.
• You will be responsible for our IaC stack - writing it, reviewing it and ensuring it is up to the standards.
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams to ship robust infrastructure solutions quickly and reliably.
• Take ownership of delivery for key infrastructure projects and unblock teams as needed.
• Build and scale CI/CD, monitoring, and alerting solutions that enable engineering speed and system confidence.
• Define infrastructure patterns and tools and contribute code to make adoption easy across teams.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues and lead resolution and root-cause analysis.
• Ensure high standards of security, scalability, performance, and cost-efficiency in all work.
• Work with senior leadership to respond to and resolve security issues which arise from customers.

Role-based technical competencies:

• Operates as a hands-on technical leader with deep familiarity with infrastructure tooling and architecture.
• Designs and delivers scalable infrastructure using modern IaC practices (Terraform preferred).
• Leads and implements resilient AWS architecture for multi-team environments.
• Defines and builds advanced CI/CD systems with rapid feedback and safe deploys.
• Writes automation and monitoring code with a focus on speed of delivery and maintainability.
• Drives the adoption of observability tools and practices for real-time issue detection and resolution.
• Understands and improves distributed systems, storage, and networking in production.
• Maintains a strong delivery mindset—shipping value incrementally and iterating quickly.
• Champions documentation, collaboration, and technical enablement across teams.

Core behaviors:

• Balances long-term system design with short-term delivery needs.
• Coaches engineers through high-quality documentation and architectural reviews.
• Makes trade-offs explicit and communicates them clearly.
• Proactively identifies weaknesses and drives strategic remediation.

Cultural

• Results Oriented. Know what you’re trying to achieve, and measure progress.
• Proactive. Say “I intend to…” instead of waiting for permission.
• Dependable. Commit responsibly, follow through, and be intentional and open in delegating or dropping tasks where necessary.
• Prioritizer. Able to make high-leverage impacts on key areas.
• Bias to Action. Find ways forward and iterate with small steps to move quickly.
• Humble in feedback and debate. Be more like scientists, and welcome data driven debates that deliver the best possible outcome.
• Supportive. Understands that we win or lose as a team, and supports those around you.
• Ambitious. Aims to be the best.
• Builder. Looks for opportunities to improve processes, people, teams, and everything else.
• Great Communicator. Be succinct, create space for others to speak, and strive to benefit the atmosphere in a room.
• 35 days annual vacation.
• Generous sick time and compassionate leave to support our team members’ health needs, and physical and mental well-being.
• Flexible hours & remote work; while we fully support digital nomads,you must be able to align with your team’s predominant time zones.
• A high-energy, collaborative, and supportive high-growth organization backed by some of Silicon Valley's top venture capital investors.
• Two hours per week (paid) to spend learning anything you like related to your role, plus a budget to spend on learning materials (courses, books, conferences). We love education and we believe in nurturing your growth!
• A promise to invest in your growth personally and professionally. Wherever you would like to go and whatever you would like to do, we will be there to support you.
• Many additional perks!

Due to the location of other team members, applications will only be considered from the following countries;

• UK
• India
• Egypt
• South Africa
• Sri Lanka
• Pakistan

Equal opportunity

Accredible is Open and Inclusive. We welcome people of any gender identity or expression, race, skin color, ethnicity, age, size, nationality, sexual orientation, ability level, neurotype, religion, elder status, family structure, culture, subculture, political views, education level, identity, and self-identification. We welcome teachers, learners, activists, artists, dreamers, doers, ordinary people, extraordinary people, and everyone in between.

Accredible is the world’s leading digital credential platform, enabling education and training leaders to increase learner engagement and drive program growth. Over 2,300 organizations, including Google, IAPP, McGraw Hill, MIT, Skillsoft, Slack, and the University of Cambridge, rely on Accredible to manage and measure everything from issuing digital certificates and badges to visualizing learning pathways to spotlighting certified learners. Founded in 2013, Accredible has helped issue and verify over 125 million career-advancing credentials. To learn more, visit accredible.com .

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Accredible is the world’s leading digital credential platform, enabling education and training leaders to increase learner engagement and drive program growth.

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