DevOps Engineer

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.

Read the overview of this opportunity to understand what skills, including and relevant soft skills and software package proficiencies, are required.

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 :

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