Lead DevOps Engineer
Lead DevOps Engineer | Belfast
Join one of Belfast's most exciting tech companies as a Lead DevOps Engineer, working with a genuinely modern stack (Kubernetes, Terraform, Argo, Helm, VictoriaMetrics, Neo4j, Elasticsearch, Redis, TimescaleDB, RabbitMQ) and real ownership over infrastructure and CI/CD at scale.
What You'll Do:
- Own infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines and product features end to end.
- Design and implement cloud technologies and open-source tools to boost reliability and scalability.
- Drive developer experience and infrastructure improvements.
- Ensure stable, scalable execution of product infrastructure.
- Monitor and maintain production systems.
Requirements:
- 5+ years as a DevOps Engineer in a high-scale, distributed production environment (Linux).
- Expertise in containerised environments, especially Kubernetes.
- Experience with databases and queueing systems (Elasticsearch, MySQL, Neo4j, Postgres, RabbitMQ, Redis, etc).
- Strong cloud infrastructure experience.
- Automation-first mindset.
- Deep knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD).
- Hands-on experience with IaC (Terraform, Terragrunt, CDK).
- Proficiency in Helm templating.
- Scripting/programming skills (Python, Bash, Go).
- Innovative, quick learner with strong ownership and accountability.
Benefits:
- Salary up to £100k (depending on experience)
- 35 days annual leave (inc stat)
- 8% matched pension
- Equity/shares option
Please apply if you meet the above criteria, or reach out to Andrew Harrison directly to discuss further.