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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # DevOps Engineer - **Company:** Pixaera - **Location:** Manchester, UK - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** £69,563.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Microsoft Windows, Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Software System Penetration Testing, Bash Shell, Code Review, Continuous Integration, Software Debugging, DevOps, Domain Name System (DNS), Github, Python (Programming Language), Key Management, PostgreSQL, Perforce, Redis, Datadog, Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), Load Balancing, Delivery Pipeline, Amazon Relational Database Service, Kubernetes, Unreal Engine, Functional Programming, Teamcity, Cloud Optimization, Cloudwatch, Terraform, Docker - **Published:** September 25, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5898090251 ## About the Role * Full-stack infrastructure ownership. Deep, hands-on experience across cloud, CI/CD, monitoring, security and developer experience. You make infrastructure decisions independently, drive platform modernisation, and are trusted with production. * Reliability leadership. You set and track SLOs (uptime, deploy frequency, recovery time), own incident response, and build the runbooks and practices that make on-call sustainable. * Build and pipeline architecture. You design reusable, versioned CI/CD workflows and manage self-hosted runner fleets as code, with golden images and self-healing. Unreal Engine or Windows build experience is a strong plus. * Scaling compute-heavy workloads. You've scaled long-running render or batch workloads and taken designs from paper to production. * Cloud cost strategy. You have a track record of measurable savings through tagging, right-sizing, spot and reserved capacity, and spend visibility. * Security and compliance. You bring expertise in secrets management, least-privilege access and patching. Experience with SOC 2, pen testing, and enterprise security reviews is valued., Must-haves * 3-6 years in DevOps, platform, SRE or infrastructure engineering. * Strong hands-on AWS - you've built and operated real production infrastructure, not just consumed it. * Terraform in earnest: modules, state, code review, and having recovered from a bad apply. * Kubernetes in production - can debug a failing pod, a broken ingress or a stuck rollout without guessing. * CI/CD pipeline ownership, ideally GitHub Actions. * Confident scripting in Python, Go or Bash - enough to automate rather than repeat. * A monitoring and incident instinct: alerts that mean something, and the discipline to write the runbook afterwards. * Comfortable being the person who owns a problem in a small team, and asking for help early when it's outside your depth. * Strong written English - we're largely async and written, and documentation is part of the job. Nice-to-haves * ArgoCD, Helm or GitOps workflows specifically. * Cloud cost optimisation with results you can point to. * Windows build agents, or game/graphics build pipelines (Unreal, Perforce). * GPU workloads and render infrastructure. * SOC 2 / ISO 27001 support, penetration test coordination, or compliance automation (Vanta or similar). * Datadog specifically. ## Description * Cloud: AWS as primary - multi-account (management / dev / staging / production), multi-region (Frankfurt and UAE). Some GCP for rendering. * IaC & GitOps: Terraform with Atlantis, ArgoCD, Helm. * Kubernetes: Amazon EKS, Karpenter, External DNS, AWS Load Balancer Controller, IRSA, external secrets. * CI/CD: GitHub Actions including self-hosted Windows runners for Unreal builds. TeamCity still in legacy use. * Observability: Datadog (APM, logs, monitors, cloud cost), CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry. * Security: Vanta, AWS Security Hub and Inspector, 1Password, Tailscale, Dependabot. * Also in the picture: Docker, PostgreSQL/RDS, Redis, S3, Lambda, GPU instances, Unreal Engine and pixel streaming. ## Related Videos - [Reducing LLM Calls with Vector Search Patterns - Raphael De Lio (Redis)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1714-reducing-llm-calls-with-vector-search-patterns-raphael-de-lio-redis) - [Docker Compose: Rediscovered](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1978-docker-compose-rediscovered) - [Innovating Developer Tools with AI: Insights from GitHub Next](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1268-innovating-developer-tools-with-ai-insights-from-github-next) - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [Accelerating Authentication Architecture: Taking Passwordless to the Next Level](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/733-accelerating-authentication-architecture-taking-passwordless-to-the-next-level) - [DevOps at Netflix](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/270-devops-at-netflix) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [DevOps Engineer Salary [2023]](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/203-devops-engineer-salary-2023) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Dev Digest 129 - Now that's what I call private data!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/468-dev-digest-129-now-that-s-what-i-call-private-data)