Fully Remote - Principal DevOps Engineer - UK

Salary: £100,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent professional experience
• 10 years of hands-on technical experience
• At least 5 years in a role emphasizing software engineering fundamentals, design patterns, testing, clean code, and code review
• Production experience with both cloud environments (AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud, or GCP) and on-premise Windows and Linux infrastructure
• Experience with enterprise virtualization platforms (VMware vSphere, Hyper-V) as part of a broader IaC strategy
• Experience overseeing platform migrations, re-architecting CI/CD systems, or driving cultural changes in delivery practices
• Expertise in GitHub and GitHub Actions
• Expertise in Terraform module authoring and associated best practices
• Strong experience with HashiCorp Vault
• Comfortable administering Linux and Windows in an automation-first context

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end engineering delivery platform, from developer commit to production artifact across both cloud and on-premise environments
• Own the artifact repository strategy, including promotion gates, retention policies, vulnerability scanning integration, and multi-ecosystem support
• Drive Terraform as the single source of truth for all infrastructure
• Optimize established module standards, remote state management, and automated drift detection
• Standardize on Docker and Docker Compose for containerization of both local development parity and production workloads
• Build and maintain a standard, opinionated pipeline framework for the organizations polyglot estate, primarily .NET and Java
• Identify systemic delivery problems across teams and build consensus on solutions to deliver durable outcomes
• Mentor Senior Engineers and conduct technical design reviews
• Raise the organizational floor of DevOps knowledge through documentation, workshops, and deliberate pairing

Technologies

• AWS
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Docker
• GCP
• GitHub
• Hyper-V
• Support
• Java
• Linux
• Oracle
• Terraform
• VMware
• Windows
• ASP.NET

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We are a global payment processing company dedicated to building the next generation of capabilities that power our merchant-first ecosystem. We believe in the potential of focused and empowered teams and are on an exciting journey to become a market leader. This role offers a fantastic opportunity to grow within our DevOps Engineering function while working fully remote across the UK and Ireland. We value culture fit and collaboration as much as technical capabilities, making it essential to celebrate both team achievements and individual successes. Alongside a competitive salary, we offer a remote bonus, work-from-home allowance, pension, and healthcare.

last updated 13 week of 2026