Gearset Limited · Belfast, United Kingdom
This is a live UK-based role at Gearset Limited, a UK Skilled Worker sponsor tracked by Sponsorly AI against the Home Office register. Posted 22 September 2026. Listed as open until 22 October 2026.
As a product-driven company founded by engineers, we know the value of a great engineering culture, and we’re looking for a Principal DevOps Engineer to join a team built from the ground up on trust, teamwork and tight feedback loops. You’ll work collaboratively using a modern tech stack (Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, .NET) to help Gearset run a scalable, secure and reliable service, and enable development of the solution to scale with the rapid growth of the company. We live by our core values, which aren’t just nice words - they guide us through day-to-day challenges and are the foundation of how we work together. Our pragmatic approach has allowed us to maintain the ability to release updates to our application multiple times a day, even as we add new features to the product and expand our global footprint. WHAT’S THE OPPORTUNITY FOR A PRINCIPAL DEVOPS ENGINEER AT GEARSET? - Be an integral part of building and supporting our multi-tenant infrastructure, running in multiple regions across the globe, all powered by AWS and Kubernetes. - Enjoy high autonomy and real ownership to help shape and drive our technical roadmap based on where you see the greatest value and engineering impact. - Work on critical production infrastructure used by thousands of teams and help us to maintain our excellent reputation for delivering a service with minimal downtime, even when we're making complex changes behind the scenes. - Get involved in building and maintaining the automation that allows our engineering team to safely release updates to our product multiple times per day. - Continuously improve the security of our infrastructure and our ability to detect and respond to issues. - Collaborate with and support teams across the organisation, including developers, designers, data engineers, marketers and salespeople, to make a real difference to our customers. WHAT YOU’LL ACHIEVE - Operate and evolve our infrastructure to help scale for an ever-growing user base, and support a team developing our increasingly sophisticated SaaS - Work closely with developers to ensure our application and infrastructure work in harmony, using your expertise and rigour to make sure changes are rolled out safely and smoothly - Lead initiatives to fortify our security measures and keep our customers’ data secure - Work with teams across Gearset to deliver infrastructure that supports their impactful work - Contribute your experience and insight to a collaborative, self-directed team with autonomy over its roadmap and practices ABOUT YOU - Have in-depth practical experience working on AWS (VPC networking and security, IAM, EC2, Postgres RDS, S3, EKS) - Have experience running production-level services in Kubernetes and managing and maintaining clusters - Practical experience automating the management of infrastructure with Terraform - Experience in the configuration and running of a CI/CD pipeline - Previous experience supporting the operation of a hosted, multi-tenant SaaS product at …
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