DevOps Engineer

• *DevOps / Platform Engineering (Dev Background Essential)
• UK – Remote | Lead Technical Direction | Hands-On Role
• £80,000 to £100,000**

We’re supporting a growing SaaS organisation in the education sector that is scaling its platform and looking for an experienced

• *Technical Lead**

to drive architectural direction, platform reliability, and technical best practice.

This is a

• *hands-on**

role leading technical decision‑making and major engineering initiatives —

• *no direct reports**

, but significant influence across teams.

• *What you’ll be doing
• Leading system & solution design across a large-scale, cloud-native platform
• Championing reliability, performance, observability, and operational excellence
• Driving automation, CI/CD improvements, and production‑readiness standards
• Guiding engineering teams on architecture, technical choices, and best practice
• Collaborating closely with Product, EMs, and senior engineers
• Leading technical delivery, feasibility assessments, and release planning
• *What you’ll need
• Strong background in
• *SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering
• Deep experience with
• *AWS

, distributed systems, and large‑scale platforms

• PHP experience is essential

, ideally with an OO codebase

• Strong skills with
• *Terraform**

, IaC, containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes/ECS)

• Proven experience with
• *Python, Go**

, or similar scripting for automation

• Expertise in
• *observability**

(DataDog, Prometheus, etc.) and incident/problem management

• Excellent system design knowledge (microservices, resilience patterns)
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical workstreams
• Interest in using AI / generative tooling to boost engineering productivity
• *Nice to have
• Chaos engineering & reliability testing
• Security best practice knowledge
• Experience with ECS at scale
• Background in large web platforms or open‑source contributions
• *Why this role?

You’ll play a major role in shaping a mission‑driven, high‑growth platform that impacts millions of users in the edTech sector. Expect a supportive culture, flexible working, strong wellbeing benefits, and investment in your professional development.