We're seeking a
DevOps Engineer
to join a pioneering tech company. This is a chance to significantly influence their core infrastructure and lead a dedicated platform sub-team.
Up to £62k (DOE) \| Remote-first in Manchester (with one monthly meetup)
You'll be instrumental in shaping their technical landscape, focusing on infrastructure evolution, environment optimisation, and refining CI/CD processes. A key part of this role involves
leading a platform sub-team
, offering crucial technical guidance, and mentoring individuals.
A significant greenfield element involves
rebuilding substantial parts of their infrastructure
, migrating it from Bitbucket to GitHub. Our client champions a strong DevOps culture, so you'll be a central figure in advocating for scalable infrastructure and robust platform engineering principles. This means close collaboration with development, QA, and SRE teams to build secure, cost-effective, and repeatable systems. You'll blend deep technical work with impactful leadership, needing a solid grasp of production operations, incident response, Infrastructure as Code, and modern best practices.
What You'll Be Doing:
Lead \& Innovate: Guide the platform team's workstreams, delivering impactful infrastructure projects, including rebuilding existing infrastructure from Bitbucket and migrating to GitHub.
Optimise Workflows: Standardise and manage CI/CD processes, promoting automation.
Empower Teams: Develop self-service tooling with Dev, QA, and SRE.
Ensure Consistency: Harmonise lower environments with production.
Team Development: Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior engineers.
Knowledge Ownership: Create comprehensive documentation for platform tooling, CI/CD, and IaC.
Skills We're Looking For
We're seeking a blend of technical mastery, leadership potential, and a proactive mindset:
Cloud \& Production Expertise: Extensive experience with production-grade infrastructure, particularly AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, IAM).
Infrastructure as Code: Deep expertise with Terraform.
CI/CD Migration Experience: Hands-on experience with CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI), especially within migration projects (e.g., from Bitbucket to GitHub).
Containerization: Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes.
Core Fundamentals: Solid understanding of networking, IAM, and platform security.
Database Acumen: Experience with SQL, NoSQL, and data warehouses (MySQL, DynamoDB, Snowflake).
Scripting Versatility: Proficient in Bash, Python, or Go.
Mentorship: Proven experience mentoring individuals and fostering team growth.
Collaboration: Excellent communication and teamwork.
Ready to lead critical infrastructure rebuilds and mentor a talented team in a flexible, remote-first environment? Apply to the role and a member of our team will be in touch to guide you through the interview process