Principal DevOps Engineer

Principal DevOps Engineer

Full-Time No home office possible
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A high-growth tech company is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to lead and mature its DevOps capability. This role is primarily on-prem , designing and optimising enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines, automating complex deployments, and supporting critical production systems—while also contributing to a gradual shift toward multi-cloud.

What you’ll do:

  • Lead and grow the DevOps function as a hands-on technical leader.
  • Architect on-prem-first CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
  • Standardise DevOps tooling, processes, and infrastructure across multiple teams.
  • Support and improve large-scale on-prem production environments , with some cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) exposure.
  • Drive reliability, monitoring, performance, and operational excellence.

What you’ll bring:

  • 8+ years in DevOps/CI/CD infrastructure roles.
  • Deep experience in on-prem orchestration, build systems, pipelines, and release automation .
  • Strong with IaC (Terraform, Packer, CDK/Bicep) and configuration-as-code (Ansible, Chef, Puppet).
  • Strong scripting (Python/Ruby) and automation fundamentals.
  • Experience with containers, monitoring stacks, and large-scale distributed systems.
  • Excellent communicator and a natural mentor.

Why apply?

Shape the DevOps strategy of a major engineering function, own critical on-prem infrastructure, and drive automation and modernisation in a highly empowered, engineering-led culture.

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London, England, United Kingdom $130,000.00-$180,000.00 2 months ago

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