Fully Remote - Principal DevOps Engineer

Salary: £63,000 - 103,000 per year

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent professional experience.
• 10+ years of hands-on technical experience, with at least 5 years focused on software engineering fundamentals, design patterns, testing, clean code, and code review.
• Production experience delivering to 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) in on-premise environments as part of a broader IaC strategy.
• Experience overseeing platform migration, CI/CD system architecture at scale, or cultural change in delivery practices.
• Expertise in GitHub and GitHub Actions, including reusable workflow authoring and secrets management.
• Expertise in Terraform module authoring and policy enforcement via Sentinel or OPA.
• 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 artifacts across cloud and on-premise environments.
• Manage the artifact repository strategy, promotion gates, retention policies, and vulnerability scanning integration.
• 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 both local development parity and production workloads.
• Build and maintain a standard 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, conduct technical design reviews, and elevate DevOps knowledge through documentation and workshops.

Technologies

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

More

We are a global payment processing company focused on building the next generation of capabilities that power our merchant-first ecosystem. Our ambition to become a market leader resonates throughout every department and team. We believe that empowered teams can accomplish great things, and we seek like-minded individuals to join us on this exciting journey. This fully remote role offers the opportunity to work across the UK and Ireland, providing benefits such as a work-from-home allowance, a retirement pension, and healthcare.

last updated 13 week of 2026