Fully Remote Principal DevOps Engineer Role, £125k w/ Bonus

Fully Remote - Principal DevOps Engineer - £125k w/bonus - Payment Processing

This global payment processing company are building the next generation of capabilities that powers our merchant-first ecosystem. You will be joining a company which is looking to become a market leader and this ambition rings through every department and team. They believe that focused and empowered teams can do great things and want like-minded people to join them on this exciting journey.

Why This Role?

This is a fantastic opportunity to grow and evolve within a DevOps Engineering function with the opportunity to work as an SME within the team, You will get the opportunity to lead efforts in architecting, implementing and optimising end-to-end CI/CD capabilities for their expanding on-prem and multi-cloud operations.

You will be working in a dynamic and exciting, agile environment that includes multiple teams within the company. Culture fit and collaboration are as essential to this company as you technical capabilities so sharing team achievements and individual successes are considered very important to them. You will also have the option to work fully remote across the UK and Ireland.

What You Will Be Doing

• Owning the end-to-end engineering delivery platform, from developer commit to production artifact across both cloud and on-premise environments.
• Standardising on Docker and Docker Compose as the containerisation surface for both local development parity and production workloads.
• Owning the artifact repository strategy, promotion gates, retention policies, vulnerability scanning integration, and multi-ecosystem support.
• Driving Terraform as the single source of truth for all infrastructure.
• Optimising established module standards, remote state management, and automated drift detection.
• Identifying systemic delivery problems across teams, building consensus on solutions and deliver durable outcomes.
• Mentoring Senior Engineers, conducting technical design reviews, and raising the organisational floor of DevOps knowledge through documentation, workshops and deliberate pairing.

What You Will Need To Have

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent professional experience.
• 10+ years of hands-on technical experience with a majority worked in an on-prem environment.
• Experience with enterprise virtualisation platforms (VMware vSphere, Hyper-V) in on-premise environments as part of a broader IaC strategy.
• Production experience delivering to both an on-premise Windows and Linux infrastructure and cloud environments (AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud or GCP).
• Comfortable administering Linux and Windows in an automation-first context.Expertise in Github and Github Actions. Reusable workflow authoring, composite actions, environment protection rules, OIDC-based cloud authentication, and secrets management integration.
• Experience of overseeing either a platform migration led end-to-end, a CI/CD system re-architected at scale or a cultural change in delivery practice
• Expertise in Terraform module authoring, remote state backends, provider version pinning, import workflows, and policy enforcement via Sentinel or OPA.
• Strong experience with Hashicorp Vault.