Principal DevOps Engineer

Job Title: Principal DevOps Engineer (Hybrid Platform & CI/CD Focus) Location: Remote (Must be based in The UK) Salary: £95,000 - £105,000 We’re looking for a hands-on Principal DevOps Engineer to join a growing platform team, focused on building and evolving CI/CD and delivery systems across a hybrid cloud and on-premise environment. This is not a typical cloud-native or Kubernetes role. The focus is on Docker-based workloads, build tooling, and developer platform engineering within a hybrid infrastructure.

You’ll play a key role in designing and building CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, and infrastructure platforms used across multiple engineering teams. This is a high-autonomy role, where you’ll be expected to take ownership of platform components, contribute to technical direction, and improve how software is built, tested, and deployed. The Role Designing and building CI/CD pipelines and delivery systems (GitHub Actions preferred) Developing reusable workflows, pipeline templates, and build frameworks Working with Docker (including Compose) to support consistent development and production environments Building and maintaining Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or Ansible) across hybrid environments Supporting and evolving build tooling (for example .NET CLI or MSBuild, Maven, Gradle) Improving developer experience, deployment speed, and platform reliability Working across both cloud and on-premise systems (VMware, datacentres, etc.) Skills Needed: Strong experience building and owning CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks Deep experience with Docker (ideally Docker Compose, multi-stage builds, optimisation) Experience with build tooling such as: .NET CLI or MSBuild Maven or Gradle Hands-on experience with Terraform or similar Infrastructure-as-Code tools Experience working in hybrid environments (cloud and on-premise infrastructure) Ability to design solutions, not just implement them and explain trade-offs Comfortable working with high autonomy and ownership What This Role Is NOT Not a Kubernetes-focused role (Kubernetes is not part of the environment) Not a pure cloud-native or microservices platform role Not a consulting-style position.

We’re looking for engineers who build and own systems, not just advise Research indicates that men will apply to a role when they meet only 50–60% of the requirements, while women and other underrepresented groups often look for a 90–100% match. If this role excites you but you don’t tick every single box, please still apply. We’d love to hear from you.