Principal DevOps Engineer (AWS, Kubernetes, SaaS)

Silversmith Capital Partners; Cambridge (MA); Hybrid; USD 103,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Top end hardware

Free lunch in the office

25 days holiday + bank holidays (buy 5

Company Pension Plan (matching up to 5

Bupa health care

Life Insurance & critical illness

Discounted gym membership

Long Term Incentive Plan

Personal development budget up to £150

Job summary

Gearset is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to join a product-driven team built on trust and tight feedback loops. You’ll work with a pragmatic stack (Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, .NET) to run scalable, secure services and enable rapid feature releases for a growing customer base.

Expect regional deployments, strong security focus, and close collaboration across engineering, design, and data teams. You’ll drive automation for safe, frequent releases, maintain production-grade infrastructure,

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience as a DevOps engineer.
• In-depth experience with AWS services (VPC networking, IAM, EC2, Postgres RDS, S3, EKS).
• Production-level Kubernetes experience; manage and maintain clusters.
• Terraform for infrastructure automation.
• Experience configuring and running a CI/CD pipeline.
• Experience supporting hosted, multi-tenant SaaS at scale.

Responsibilities

• Build and support multi-tenant infrastructure across regions.
• Maintain production infrastructure with high availability and minimal downtime.
• Automate release processes to enable frequent product updates.
• Enhance security and incident detection/response capabilities.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and operations teams to deliver value.

Skills

CI/CD automation

Security best practices

Agile collaboration

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

.NET

Job description

As a product-driven company founded by engineers, we know the value of a great engineering culture, and we’re looking for a Principal DevOps Engineer to join a team built from the ground up on trust, teamwork and tight feedback loops.

As a Principal DevOps Engineer you’ll work collaboratively using a pragmatically-chosen 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.

What’s the opportunity for a Principal DevOps Engineer at Gearset?

• 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
• 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

• Have 5+ years’ experience as a DevOps engineer
• Have in-depth practical experience working on AWS (VPC networking and security, IAM, EC2, Postgres RDS, S3, EKS)
• Have experience running production-level services in Kubernetes and managing and maintaining clusters
• Practical experience automating the management of infrastructure with Terraform
• Experience in the configuration and running of a CI/CD pipeline
• Previous experience supporting the operation of a hosted, multi-tenant SaaS product at scale
• Comfortable giving and receiving constructive feedback to make your work even better
• Approach your work with pragmatism, prioritising iteration, and delivering value over process and deliberation

About you

• Have in-depth practical experience working on AWS (VPC networking and security, IAM, EC2, Postgres RDS, S3, EKS)
• Have experience running production-level services in Kubernetes and managing and maintaining clusters
• Practical experience automating the management of infrastructure with Terraform
• Experience in the configuration and running of a CI/CD pipeline
• Previous experience supporting the operation of a hosted, multi-tenant SaaS product at scale
• Comfortable giving and receiving constructive feedback to make your work even better
• Approach your work with pragmatism, prioritising iteration, and delivering value over process and deliberation

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

Salary and benefits (the stuff you’d expect!)

• Salary is £78K - £100K (depending on experience)
• This is a full time opportunity, working Monday to Friday with the option of flexible home working (for most of us that looks like 2-3 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
• Opportunity to join our Long Term Incentive Plan
• Top end hardware provided
• 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
• Life Insurance & critical illness cover
• Discounted gym membership, as well as a range of health and wellness benefits