Lead DevOps Engineer

Lead DevOps Engineer

Fully Remote (UK)

Up to £100,000 + Excellent Benefits

No Sponsorship can be provided for this role

The Opportunity

We’re partnered with an exciting high-growth product-led technology company that is scaling rapidly following significant investment and continued customer growth across the UK and international markets.

As part of this growth, they’re looking to hire a Lead DevOps Engineer to take ownership of the cloud infrastructure, platform reliability, automation strategy, and DevOps culture across the engineering function.

This is a key leadership position within the business where you’ll have a genuine impact on technical direction, scalability, platform performance, and engineering best practice. You’ll work closely with Software Engineering, Platform, Security and Product teams to build and maintain highly available, secure and scalable cloud-native systems.

The environment is fast-paced, collaborative and engineering-driven, with a strong focus on modern tooling, automation, CI/CD and infrastructure scalability.

The Role

As Lead DevOps Engineer, you’ll be responsible for designing, building and evolving a highly scalable AWS platform powering a modern SaaS product environment.

You’ll lead DevOps initiatives across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes orchestration, observability, security and deployment automation, while mentoring engineers and helping shape the future platform strategy.

This role would suit someone who enjoys operating in a modern cloud-native environment and wants the autonomy to influence architecture, tooling and engineering standards within a scaling technology business.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation and optimisation of cloud infrastructure within AWS
• Own and evolve the company’s Kubernetes platform and container orchestration strategy
• Drive Infrastructure as Code best practices using Terraform
• Build, maintain and optimise CI/CD pipelines across Jenkins and GitLab
• Improve platform reliability, scalability, performance and availability
• Implement monitoring, alerting and observability solutions using Prometheus and Grafana
• Collaborate closely with Software Engineers to improve deployment processes and developer experience
• Support security, compliance and DevSecOps initiatives across the platform
• Automate operational processes and reduce manual infrastructure management
• Participate in architectural discussions and long-term platform strategy
• Mentor and support junior and mid-level DevOps/Platform engineers
• Champion DevOps culture, automation-first thinking and engineering best practice
• Support incident response, troubleshooting and root cause analysis when required

Tech Stack

You’ll be working within a modern cloud-native environment including:

• AWS
• Kubernetes (EKS)
• Terraform
• Python
• Jenkins
• GitLab CI/CD
• Docker
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Linux
• Helm
• CloudWatch
• IAM / Security Best Practices
• GitOps methodologies
• Microservices architecture

What They’re Looking For

• Strong commercial experience within DevOps, Platform Engineering or SRE environments
• Proven experience leading or mentoring engineers within cloud-native environments
• Deep AWS infrastructure knowledge
• Strong Kubernetes and containerisation experience
• Expertise with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
• Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with monitoring and observability tooling
• Python scripting/automation experience
• Strong understanding of security, scalability and reliability principles
• Ability to work closely with engineering teams in a collaborative product environment
• Excellent communication skills and a proactive mindset

Desirable Experience

• Experience within startup, scale-up or SaaS product businesses
• Exposure to GitOps tooling
• Experience with cost optimisation and cloud governance
• Knowledge of security and compliance frameworks
• Experience scaling high-traffic production systems
• Exposure to multi-environment Kubernetes deployments

Salary & Benefits

• Up to £100,000 base salary
• Fully remote working
• Flexible working hours
• Annual bonus scheme
• Equity/share options
• 30 days holiday + bank holidays
• Enhanced pension contribution
• Private healthcare
• Learning & development budget
• Home office allowance
• Latest equipment provided
• Wellness support package
• Regular company meetups and engineering events
• Clear progression and career development opportunities

Why Join?

This is an opportunity to join a genuinely exciting product company at a critical stage of growth where engineering is seen as a core driver of success.

You’ll have the autonomy to influence technical direction, introduce new ideas, modernise infrastructure and help scale a cloud-native platform used by a growing customer base globally.

If you enjoy solving complex engineering challenges in a modern AWS/Kubernetes environment and want to be part of a collaborative, high-performing engineering culture, this could be an excellent opportunity.

Sellick Partnership is proud to be an inclusive and accessible recruitment business and we support applications from candidates of all backgrounds and circumstances. Please note, our advertisements use years' experience, hourly rates, and salary levels purely as a guide and we assess applications based on the experience and skills evidenced on the CV. For information on how your personal details may be used by Sellick Partnership, please review our data processing notice on our website.