Lead DevOps Engineer

Company: DataCareers
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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.


Role



  • Own AWS multi‑account infrastructure architecture (secure‑by‑design)

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

  • 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


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



  • Implement least‑privilege IAM models

  • Support ISO 27001 and compliance evidence automation

  • 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

  • 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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Posted: March 6th, 2026