At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the evolution of our AWS platform, designing scalable and secure systems.
- Company: Join Tails.com, a certified B Corp dedicated to improving dog health and happiness.
- Benefits: Enjoy private healthcare, a 9-day fortnight, and generous leave policies.
- Other info: Be part of a supportive team that values innovation and collaboration.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on pet nutrition while working with cutting-edge cloud technology.
- Qualifications: Experience in AWS platforms, automation, and cloud security is essential.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Lead the evolution of tails. com’s AWS platform - design scalable, secure, resilient systems & turn complexity into clear, modern patterns.
Who are we?
Hi, we’re Tails. com – we turn good days into great years for dogs and their humans.
We’re working towards longer lives for millions of healthy, happy dogs by providing tailored nutrition that adapts to each dog’s unique needs.
From the moment owners answer a few simple questions about their dog’s age, breed, and preferences, we create a personalized meal plan delivered to their door every month, eliminating guesswork and overwhelm.
As a certified B Corp, responsible business practices guide everything we do, upholding high social and environmental standards for better walkies for generations to come.
- Job Title
- Senior Dev Ops Engineer
- Reporting to
- Cloud Infrastructure Manager
- Build our brand
We’re building an international brand, fast.
We set ambitious goals and mutually support each other, testing ideas quickly rather than spending months on business cases.
We celebrate successes and learn from failures.
How you’ll make a difference
As a Senior Dev Ops Engineer, you will help reshape our cloud platform into an intentionally designed foundation that is scalable, resilient, secure, and cost‑effective from the outset.
You’ll take a system‑level view of AWS architecture, deployment models, resilience patterns, observability, security guardrails, and cost structures to define what good looks like for the next phase of tails. com.
The role
- Cloud & Platform Engineering
- Own and evolve the AWS platform architecture for scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency.
- Lead architectural redesign where systems show strain or fragility.
- Establish reusable infrastructure patterns that reduce drift and technical debt.
- Improve operational maturity through strong observability and reliability practices.
- Dev Ops & Automation
- Design release strategies that keep production changes safe and predictable.
- Eliminate manual processes through automation across the platform.
- Turn incidents into architectural improvements through effective remediation.
- Improve developer experience by making the right way the easy way.
- Security, Guardrails & Resilience
- Embed secure‑by‑default principles into platform architecture and delivery pipelines.
- Strengthen cloud identity boundaries, isolation, and defence‑in‑depth.
- Partner with the tails. com security team to evolve resilience, monitoring, and threat detection capabilities.
- Ensure backup, recovery, and failure‑domain strategies are deliberate, tested, and robust.
- Collaboration & Technical Influence
- Engage early in service design to ensure reliability, scalability, and security are built in.
- Challenge designs that introduce risk or unnecessary complexity.
- Contribute to platform standards and reference architectures.
- Raise engineering standards through example, peer review, and pragmatic mentorship.
Skills & Qualifications
- Significant experience building and evolving AWS cloud platforms in production.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalability, resilience, and operational risk.
- Deep experience with Infrastructure as Code and platform automation.
- Experience designing safe, reliable deployment and release strategies.
- Strong grasp of cloud security fundamentals and secure‑by‑default architecture.
- Experience working with security teams to strengthen resilience and detection capabilities.
- Solid scripting and automation capability.
- Clear communicator, able to translate technical risk into pragmatic improvements.
- Key Attributes
- Platform‑minded and systems‑oriented.
- Reliability‑focused and comfortable designing for failure.
- Security‑aware and pragmatic.
- Influential through technical credibility rather than authority.
- Calm under pressure and outcome‑driven.
- A Few Of Our Core Benefits Include
- Private Healthcare through Aviva.
- A 9 day fortnight – our office is closed every other Friday.
- 25 days of Annual Leave and 8 additional remote working days.
- Recruitment Process
- CV reviewed by Talent Acquisition.
- Potential interview with TA Team to discuss role and skills.
- Video call with hiring manager.
- Task presentation to interview panel.
- Final video call with wider squad.
- Our Commitment
We’re proud to be an active equal opportunity employer.
We want to give everyone a fair chance to join us in changing the world of pet food for good, conducting a structured recruitment process for all candidates and actively promoting our roles to under‑represented communities.
If you need reasonable adjustments during the interview process, please let us know.
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