Remote Senior DevOps & Platform Engineer

Location:

Remote (United Kingdom)
Salary: £55,000–£70,000 DOE, with room to grow as the company grows

Contract:

Full-time, 40 hours per week

Reports to:

Engineering Leadership

You must already have the right to work in the UK, as we're unable to sponsor visas for this role.

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Dev Ops & Platform Engineer to join our engineering team and take technical ownership of our cloud platform, infrastructure and operational tooling.

You'll work alongside our software engineers to build, maintain and improve the AWS and Kubernetes platform that powers Ops Pilot, while continuing to evolve our CI/CD pipelines, observability platform, security controls and compliance processes.

This is a hands-on engineering role. You'll combine platform engineering, infrastructure automation and software development, helping to create a reliable, secure and scalable platform that enables the whole engineering team to deliver software with confidence.

You'll be trusted to shape technical standards, improve developer experience through automation, and ensure our platform continues to support both our engineers and our customers.

Ideas carry the same weight here regardless of who they come from or how long they've been with the company. You'll be judged on the strength of your thinking, collaboration and engineering decisions rather than your title.

Success in this role will be measured by the reliability, security and maintainability of our platform, the quality of the engineering practices you help establish, and your ability to work collaboratively across the team.

About Ops Pilot

Ops Pilot is an AI-powered observability and operational intelligence platform, helping engineering and operations teams detect, understand and resolve production issues faster while increasingly automating operational workflows.

As a team, we build and operate the same kind of platform we sell. The operational challenges we solve internally often become the next capabilities we deliver to customers, giving every engineer the opportunity to directly influence the product.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Engineering

• Own and maintain our AWS and Kubernetes platform.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure using Open Tofu / Terraform.
• Improve our CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Maintain and evolve our observability platform.
• Define and maintain engineering standards for infrastructure, deployments and platform operations.
• Monitor cloud costs and identify opportunities for optimisation.

Engineering Collaboration

• Work closely with software engineers to improve platform capabilities and developer experience.
• Build tooling and automation that improves developer experience and engineering productivity.
• Share knowledge and provide guidance on infrastructure, cloud technologies and operational best practices.
• Help establish practical engineering standards that support reliable software delivery.

Security & Compliance

• Own and maintain our SOC 2 compliance programme.
• Improve security controls and engineering best practices.
• Work with the wider engineering team to ensure compliance activities become part of normal engineering workflows.

Product Engineering

• Contribute to technical design and architecture.
• Develop internal platform capabilities and customer-facing features for Ops Pilot.
• Use AI-assisted development and automation where it improves engineering outcomes.

Skills & Experience

Essential

• Around 4+ years' relevant experience in Dev Ops, Platform Engineering, SRE, Cloud Infrastructure or a closely related role. We're far more interested in your approach and trajectory than a long CV, so don't be put off if you're towards the lower end of that range.
• A track record of helping development teams adopt new practices or ways of working. This matters more to us than any individual technology and is something we'll explore as much in the interview as on your CV.
• Able to influence engineering practices through collaboration, technical leadership and strong communication rather than formal authority.
• Strong experience with AWS and Kubernetes in production.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and practices.

• Experience developing…