Principal DevOps Engineer (AWS, Kubernetes, SaaS)

Gearset

Responsibilities

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.
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

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
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

Experience in the configuration and running of a CI/CD pipeline

Experience working in an agile development team with a focus on delivering value early

Benefits (the stuff you’d expect!)
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

25 days holiday plus bank holidays (with the option to buy an extra 5 each year)
Company Pension Plan (matching up to 5%)

Enhanced family leave from day 1, including 26 weeks full maternity/adoption pay, OTE-inclusive
Bupa Menopause Plan offering specialist consultations and support

Discounted gym membership, as well as a range of health and wellness benefits