Principal DevOps Engineer

Gearset Limited; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous personal development budget

Top end hardware provided

Long Term Incentive Plan

Free lunch in the office

25 days holiday + 5 optional

Company Pension Plan (5% match)

Bupa health care and dental insurance

Enhanced family leave (26 weeks)

Job summary

Gearset Limited is seeking a highly autonomous engineer to help run and scale our multi-tenant infrastructure across regions using AWS and Kubernetes. You’ll own parts of the technical roadmap and work with teams across the organisation to deliver value quickly.

The role emphasizes security, observability, and reliability as our platform scales with global growth. You’ll collaborate with developers and other disciplines to ensure seamless operation and trusted releases.

Qualifications

• High autonomy and real ownership to shape technical roadmap.
• Collaborate across the organisation to impact customers positively.
• Experience with agile development processes and delivering value early.
• Ability to work across multi-tenant, globally distributed infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Build and support multi-tenant infrastructure across regions using AWS and Kubernetes.
• Automate release pipelines to ship updates multiple times per day.
• Strengthen security and monitoring of the infrastructure to detect issues quickly.
• Collaborate with developers, designers, data engineers, marketers and salespeople to make a difference for customers.
• Own the infrastructure roadmap and drive engineering impact.

Skills

Autonomy

Ownership

Collaboration

Agile development

Tools

.NET/C#

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

Job description

You'll work collaboratively using a modern tech stack (Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, .NET) to help Gearset run a scalable, secure and reliable service, and enable development of the solution to scale with the rapid growth of the company. We live by our core values, which aren't just nice words - they guide us through day-to-day challenges and are the foundation of how we work together. Our pragmatic approach has allowed us to maintain the ability to release updates to our application multiple times a day, even as we add new features to the product and expand our global footprint.

Key responsibilities

• Be an integral part of building and supporting our multi-tenant infrastructure, running in multiple regions across the globe, all powered by AWS and Kubernetes.
• Enjoy high autonomy and real ownership to help shape and drive our technical roadmap based on where you see the greatest value and engineering impact.
• Work on critical production infrastructure used by thousands of teams and help us to maintain our excellent reputation for delivering a service with minimal downtime, even when we're making complex changes behind the scenes.
• Get involved in building and maintaining the automation that allows our engineering team to safely release updates to our product multiple times per day.
• Continuously improve the security of our infrastructure and our ability to detect and respond to issues.
• Collaborate with and support teams across the organisation, including developers, designers, data engineers, marketers and salespeople, to make a real difference to our customers.

What you'll achieve

• Operate and evolve our infrastructure to help scale for an ever-growing user base, and support a team developing our increasingly sophisticated SaaS
• Work closely with developers to ensure our application and infrastructure work in harmony, using your expertise and rigour to make sure changes are rolled out safely and smoothly
• Lead initiatives to fortify our security measures and keep our customers' data secure
• Work with teams across Gearset to deliver infrastructure that supports their impactful work
• Contribute your experience and insight to a collaborative, self-directed team with autonomy over its roadmap and practices

Great to haves

• Experience with .NET/C#
• Experience working in an agile development team with a focus on delivering value early
• Experience with building observability and alerting into systems

Additional details

• This is a full time opportunity, working Monday to Friday with the option of flexible home working (for most of us that looks like 1-2 days a week in the office).
• Generous personal development budget for courses, conferences, or whatever is useful to your professional development in the role of up to £1500 per year
• Top end hardware provided
• Opportunity to join our Long Term Incentive Plan
• Free lunch in the office
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (with the option to buy an extra 5 each year)
• Company Pension Plan (matching up to 5%)
• Bupa health care and dental insurance
• Enhanced family leave from day 1, including 26 weeks full maternity/adoption pay, OTE-inclusive
• Bupa Menopause Plan offering specialist consultations and support
• Life Insurance & critical illness cover
• Discounted gym membership, as well as a range of health and wellness benefits