DevOps Engineer (Manchester)

We're seeking a DevOps Engineer to join a pioneering tech company. This is a chance to significantly influence their core infrastructure and lead a dedicated platform sub-team.

Up to £62k (DOE) | Remote-first in Manchester (with one monthly meetup)

You'll be instrumental in shaping their technical landscape, focusing on infrastructure evolution, environment optimisation, and refining CI/CD processes. A key part of this role involves leading a platform sub-team , offering crucial technical guidance, and mentoring individuals.

A significant greenfield element involves rebuilding substantial parts of their infrastructure , migrating it from Bitbucket to GitHub. Our client champions a strong DevOps culture, so you'll be a central figure in advocating for scalable infrastructure and robust platform engineering principles. This means close collaboration with development, QA, and SRE teams to build secure, cost-effective, and repeatable systems. You'll blend deep technical work with impactful leadership, needing a solid grasp of production operations, incident response, Infrastructure as Code, and modern best practices.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Lead & Innovate: Guide the platform team's workstreams, delivering impactful infrastructure projects, including rebuilding existing infrastructure from Bitbucket and migrating to GitHub.
• Optimise Workflows: Standardise and manage CI/CD processes, promoting automation.
• Empower Teams: Develop self-service tooling with Dev, QA, and SRE.
• Ensure Consistency: Harmonise lower environments with production.
• Team Development: Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior engineers.
• Knowledge Ownership: Create comprehensive documentation for platform tooling, CI/CD, and IaC.

Skills We're Looking For

We're seeking a blend of technical mastery, leadership potential, and a proactive mindset:

• Cloud & Production Expertise: Extensive experience with production-grade infrastructure, particularly AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, IAM).
• Infrastructure as Code: Deep expertise with Terraform.
• CI/CD Migration Experience: Hands-on experience with CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI), especially within migration projects (e.g., from Bitbucket to GitHub).
• Containerization: Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Core Fundamentals: Solid understanding of networking, IAM, and platform security.
• Database Acumen: Experience with SQL, NoSQL, and data warehouses (MySQL, DynamoDB, Snowflake).
• Scripting Versatility: Proficient in Bash, Python, or Go.
• Mentorship: Proven experience mentoring individuals and fostering team growth.
• Collaboration: Excellent communication and teamwork.

Ready to lead critical infrastructure rebuilds and mentor a talented team in a flexible, remote-first environment? Apply to the roe and a member of our team will be in touch to guide you through the interview process