Permanent

Location: UK- Remote

Salary: £70,000 - £75,000 (+ benefits)

Skills: AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, Production SaaS experience

We are looking to recruit a Lead DevOps Engineer for a leading software company. This is a hands-on technical leadership role, ideal for someone who enjoys owning AWS infrastructure strategy while remaining close to engineering delivery.

You’ll play a key role in shaping platform standards, improving reliability, embedding security best practice, and driving automation across the organisation.

This is a fully remote UK based role.

The Role

Platform Architecture & Cloud Engineering

Own AWS multi-account infrastructure architecture (secure-by-design)

Define infrastructure standards across networking, IAM, logging and disaster recovery

Lead Infrastructure-as-Code strategy (Terraform preferred)

Ensure scalability, resilience and high availability across production environments

CI/CD & Release Automation

Design and optimise CI/CD pipelines

Improve deployment reliability and reduce rollback frequency

Standardise release processes across engineering teams

Implement progressive delivery practices

Reliability & Observability

Define and track SLIs/SLOs

Enhance monitoring, alerting and incident response processes

Lead post-incident reviews and root cause analysis

Drive reduction of operational toil

Security & Compliance

Embed DevSecOps controls into pipelines

Implement least-privilege IAM models

Support ISO 27001 and compliance evidence automation

FinOps & Cost Optimisation

Partner on cloud cost optimisation strategy

Improve tagging standards and cost allocation models

Implement rightsizing and automation policies

About You

5+ years’ experience in DevOps / Cloud Engineering

Strong AWS expertise (VPC, IAM, EC2, RDS, EKS, Lambda)

Proven Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform preferred)

CI/CD tooling experience (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)

Experience operating production SaaS environments

Strong observability tooling knowledge (Datadog, Prometheus, ELK etc.)

Incident management and root cause analysis experience

Experience in regulated or security-conscious environments is highly desirable

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