Job Title: Principal DevOps Engineer
Industry: FinTech
Location: United Kingdom (Fully Remote)
Salary: £95,000 – £100,000 base + 7% bonus
Type: Permanent, Full-time

A rapidly growing global payments technology company is looking for a Principal DevOps Engineer to help shape and scale its DevOps capability. This is a unique opportunity to take ownership of modern CI/CD platforms and automation frameworks while helping establish best practices across a highly collaborative engineering environment.

You’ll play a key role in enabling engineering teams to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable systems across both cloud and on-premise environments. Working closely with product and engineering teams, you’ll design tooling, infrastructure, and processes that improve developer experience and accelerate delivery of innovative merchant-focused technology solutions.

The Role:

• Design, build and maintain enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines supporting automated build and deployment processes.

• Lead the development of reusable workflow frameworks and DevOps tooling to improve developer productivity.

• Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code solutions across multi-cloud and on-premise infrastructure.

• Develop and maintain configuration management frameworks for scalable infrastructure automation.

• Define and maintain containerisation standards, including secure and optimised Docker images.

• Implement secure secrets management solutions and integrate them across pipelines and services.

• Partner with engineering teams to improve developer experience, streamline delivery pipelines, and remove deployment bottlenecks.

• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and deployment challenges while maintaining documentation and platform standards.

Skills Needed:

• Extensive DevOps, platform engineering, or software engineering experience with a strong focus on CI/CD and infrastructure automation.

• Expert knowledge of GitHub and GitHub Actions, including reusable workflow design.

• Strong Infrastructure as Code expertise, particularly with Terraform.

• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible.

• Strong containerisation experience with Docker and modern build practices.

• Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and Linux-based infrastructure.

Benefits

• Fully remote working (UK-based)

• 45 days paid holiday plus bank holidays

• £5,000 annual certification and professional development budget

• £60/month work-from-home allowance

• Private healthcare

• Additional benefits and performance-based incentives

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.