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# Principal DevOps Engineer (AWS, Kubernetes, SaaS)

- **Company:** Gearset Limited
- **Location:** Cookstown, UK (Remote available)
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, C Sharp (Programming Language), Software as a Service, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Identity and Access Management, PostgreSQL, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Kubernetes, Terraform
- **Published:** September 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.apply4u.co.uk/jobs/principal-devops-engineer-aws-kubernetes-saas/48262862

## About the Role

support a team developing our increasingly sophisticated SaaS - Work closely with developers to ensure our application and infrastructure work in harmony, using your expertise and rigour to make sure changes are rolled out safely and smoothly - Lead initiatives to fortify our security measures and keep our customers' data secure - Work with teams across Gearset to deliver infrastructure that supports their impactful work - Contribute your experience and insight to a collaborative, self-directed team with autonomy over its roadmap and practices ABOUT YOU - Have in-depth practical experience working on AWS (VPC networking and security, IAM, EC2, Postgres RDS, S3, EKS) - Have experience running production-level services in Kubernetes and managing and maintaining clusters - Practical experience automating the management of infrastructure with Terraform - Experience in the configuration and running of a CI/CD pipeline - Previous experience supporting the
operation of a hosted, multi-tenant SaaS product at scale - Comfortable giving and receiving constructive feedback to make your work even better - Approach your work with pragmatism, prioritising iteration, and delivering value over process and deliberation GREAT TO HAVES - Experience with .NET/C# - Experience working in an agile development team with a focus on delivering value early - Experience with building observability and alerting into systems BENEFITS (THE STUFF YOU'D EXPECT!) - This is a full time opportunity, working Monday to Friday with the option of flexible home working (for most of us that looks like 1-2 days a week in the office). - Generous personal development budget for courses, conferences, or whatever is useful to your professional development in the role of up to £1500 per year - Top end hardware provided - Opportunity to join our Long Term Incentive Plan - Free lunch in the office - 25 days holiday plus bank
holidays (with the option to buy an extra 5 each year) - Company Pension Plan (matching up to 5%) - Bupa health care and dental insurance - Enhanced family leave from day 1, including 26 weeks full maternity/adoption pay, OTE-inclusive - Bupa Menopause Plan offering specialist consultations and support - Life Insurance & critical illness cover - Discounted gym membership, as well as a range of health and wellness benefits #J-18808-Ljbffr

## Description

regions across the globe, all powered by AWS and Kubernetes. - Enjoy high autonomy and real ownership to help shape and drive our technical roadmap based on where you see the greatest value and engineering impact. - Work on critical production infrastructure used by thousands of teams and help us to maintain our excellent reputation for delivering a service with minimal downtime, even when we're making complex changes behind the scenes. - Get involved in building and maintaining the automation that allows our engineering team to safely release updates to our product multiple times per day. - Continuously improve the security of our infrastructure and our ability to detect and respond to issues. - Collaborate with and support teams across the organisation, including developers, designers, data engineers, marketers and salespeople, to make a real difference to our customers. WHAT YOU'LL ACHIEVE - Operate and evolve our infrastructure to help scale for an ever-growing user base, and


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