Remote Principal DevOps Engineer

Salary: £59,000 - 99,000 per year

Requirements:

• In-depth practical experience with AWS, including VPC networking and security, IAM, EC2, Postgres RDS, S3, and EKS
• Experience running production-level services in Kubernetes and managing and maintaining clusters
• Practical experience automating infrastructure management with Terraform
• Experience configuring and running CI/CD pipelines
• Experience supporting the operation of a hosted, multi-tenant SaaS product at scale
• Comfortable giving and receiving constructive feedback
• A pragmatic approach to work, prioritising iteration and value delivery over process and deliberation
• Nice to have: experience with .NET/C#
• Nice to have: experience in an agile development team focused on delivering value early
• Nice to have: experience building observability and alerting into systems

Responsibilities:

• Build and support multi-tenant infrastructure across multiple global regions, powered by AWS and Kubernetes
• Shape and drive the technical roadmap, taking ownership of engineering priorities and impact
• Maintain critical production infrastructure and help deliver a reliable service with minimal downtime
• Build and maintain automation that enables safe, frequent product releases
• Improve infrastructure security and the ability to detect and respond to issues
• Operate and evolve infrastructure to scale for a growing user base and support the development of our SaaS product
• Work closely with developers to ensure application and infrastructure changes are rolled out safely and smoothly
• Lead initiatives to strengthen security and protect customer data
• Collaborate with teams across the organisation to deliver infrastructure that supports their work
• Contribute experience and insight to a collaborative, self-directed team

Technologies:

• AWS
• C#
• CI/CD
• DevOps
• EC2
• Hardware
• IAM
• Support
• Kubernetes
• Security
• Terraform
• ASP.NET
• Cloud

More:

Were Gearset, a product-driven company founded by engineers, with an engineering culture built on trust, teamwork, and tight feedback loops. Our pragmatic approach supports frequent product updates as we add features and grow our global footprint. This is a full-time Principal DevOps Engineer opportunity, working remotely in the UK, Monday to Friday. We offer a professional development budget of up to £1,500 per year, hardware, participation in our Long Term Incentive Plan, free office lunches, 25 days of holiday plus bank holidays (with the option to buy five more), a pension plan with matching up to 5%, Bupa health and dental insurance, enhanced family leave, menopause support, life and critical illness insurance, and discounted gym membership and other wellbeing benefits.

last updated 40 week of 2026