Remote DevOps Team Lead

Runware
Glasgow, United Kingdom
9 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
£ 85K

Job location

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence
Build Automation
Computer Clusters
Software Debugging
DevOps
Distributed Systems
IBM Hardware Management Console
Python
Kubernetes
Low Latency
Deployment Automation
Bare Metal
Docker

Job description

  • Provide technical and people leadership to a small DevOps team
  • Lead the design and operation of our infrastructure and orchestration systems
  • Build automation and tooling to streamline model deployments, scaling, and hardware utilisation across distributed nodes
  • Drive observability, alerting, and reliability practices to detect and resolve issues quickly and proactively
  • Collaborate with engineers to optimise throughput, latency, and platform performance at every layer of the stack
  • Develop and maintain infrastructure as code and deployment automation to ensure consistency and reproducibility across environments
  • Establish and continuously evolve incident management, post-mortems, and reliability reviews as core engineering practices
  • Mentor and coach engineers to think operationally, designing systems that fail gracefully and scale predictably
  • Champion forward-looking improvements to our orchestration layer, hardware management, and overall infrastructure efficiency

Technologies:

  • DevOps
  • Docker
  • Hardware
  • Kubernetes
  • Python
  • AI

Requirements

  • Have experience operating production systems on bare metal or hybrid environments such as HPC or GPU clusters, optimised for performance and low latency
  • Are comfortable writing automation and systems tooling in Python, Go, or similar languages
  • Understand container runtimes like Docker and containerd, and have built or worked with orchestration systems beyond Kubernetes
  • Are fluent in observability and debugging practices across distributed systems, using logs, metrics, traces, and profiling to drive insight and reliability
  • Care deeply about reliability, efficiency, and engineering quality, and know how to embed those values into team culture and everyday practice
  • Thrive in fast-moving, evolving environments where impact is measured by how much better systems and teams perform over time

Benefits & conditions

We are a remote-first collective, meeting in person twice a year to plan, brainstorm, celebrate wins, and enjoy face-to-face time. We have core hours for cooperative working and calls, but outside of that your calendar is yours, so you can work the hours that let you perform at your peak while building a healthy life. Our release cycles are fast and intense, but they are followed by real downtime, and after big pushes we expect the team to unplug, recharge, and come back ready and stronger than ever. We offer generous paid time off, meaningful stock options, a remote-first setup, flexible hours, family leave, and company retreats twice a year in inspiring locations. Please note that we are unable to offer visa sponsorship in the UK at this time, and candidates must already have the right to work in the UK.

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