Principal DevOps Engineer - AWS, Kubernetes, SaaS

Gearset; 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

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,