As a product-driven company founded by engineers, we know the value of a great engineering culture, and we’re looking for a Principal DevOps Engineer to join a team built from the ground up on trust, teamwork and tight feedback loops.
As a Principal DevOps Engineer you’ll work collaboratively using a pragmatically-chosen modern tech stack (Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, .NET) to help Gearset run a scalable, secure and reliable service, and enable development of the solution to scale with the rapid growth of the company.
We live by our core values, which aren’t just nice words - they guide us through day-to-day challenges and are the foundation of how we work together. Our pragmatic approach has allowed us to maintain the ability to release updates to our application multiple times a day, even as we add new features to the product and expand our global footprint.
What’s the opportunity for a Principal DevOps Engineer at Gearset? Be an integral part of building and supporting our multi-tenant infrastructure, running in multiple regions across the globe, all powered by AWS and KubernetesWork on critical production infrastructure used by thousands of teams and help us to maintain our excellent reputation for delivering a service with minimal downtime, even when we're making complex changes behind the scenesGet involved in building and maintaining the automation that allows our engineering team to safely release updates to our product multiple times per dayContinuously improve the security of our infrastructure and our ability to detect and respond to issuesCollaborate with and support teams across the organisation, including developers, designers, data engineers, marketers and salespeople, to make a real difference to our customers What you’ll achieve Operate and evolve our infrastructure to help scale for an ever-growing user base, and support a team developing our increasingly sophisticated SaaSWork 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 smoothlyLead initiatives to fortify our security measures and keep our customers’ data secureWork with teams across Gearset to deliver infrastructure that supports their impactful workContribute your experience and insight to a collaborative, self-directed team with autonomy over its roadmap and practices About you Have 5+ years’ experience as a DevOps engineerHave 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 clustersPractical experience automating the management of infrastructure with TerraformExperience in the configuration and running of a CI/CD pipelinePrevious experience supporting the operation of a hosted, multi-tenant SaaS product at scaleComfortable giving and receiving constructive feedback to make your work even betterApproach your work with pragmatism, prioritising iteration, and delivering value over process and deliberation Great to haves Experience with .NET/C#Experience working in an agile development team with a focus on delivering value early Experience with building observability and alerting into systems Salary and benefits (the stuff you’d expect!) Salary is £78K - £100K (depending on experience)This is a full time opportunity, working Monday to Friday remotely in the UKGenerous personal development budget for courses, conferences, or whatever is useful to your professional development in the role of up to £1500 per yearOpportunity to join our Long Term Incentive PlanTop end hardware provided25 days holiday plus bank holidays (with the option to buy an extra 5 each year)Company Pension Plan (matching up to 5%)Bupa health careLife Insurance & critical illness coverDiscounted gym membership, as well as a range of health and wellness benefits
