Principal DevOps Engineer

Intermedia Cloud Communications

Principal DevOps Engineer serving as technical lead and architect for infrastructure, automation, and deployments in cloud communications provider. Focused on reliability, standards, and cross-platform initiatives.

Posted 5/26/2026full-timeRemote • 🇬🇧 United KingdomLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleDNSDockerKubernetesLinuxNGINXPrometheusRabbitMQRedisTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Act as technical lead for DevOps/Platform/Release engineering: set direction, standards, and best practices
Architect and govern end-to-end delivery: infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, CI/CD, release processes, and operations
Design and support Windows-based high availability solutions, with deep ownership of Windows clustering (failover/HA patterns, maintenance, upgrades, troubleshooting)
Lead Linux automation and platform standardization (configuration, patching, hardening, performance tuning)
Own Infrastructure as Code strategy with Terraform (modules, environments, state, governance)
Own automation strategy with Ansible (reusable roles, inventories, secure secrets handling, idempotency)
Build and standardize deployments using Octopus Deploy, GitHub, and Ansible (templates, shared steps, release promotion, rollback)
Design and mature CI/CD pipelines (artifact versioning, approvals, promotion strategy, policy-as-code where applicable)
Establish observability standards using VictoriaMetrics/Prometheus (metrics strategy, alerting, SLO/SLA monitoring, dashboards)
Provide production leadership: incident response, RCA/postmortems, reliability improvements, capacity planning
Mentor engineers, review designs/code, and raise overall engineering quality across teams
Produce and maintain architecture docs, runbooks, and platform roadmaps

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field
7+ years (or equivalent) in DevOps / SRE / Infrastructure Engineering, including leadership in complex environments
Expert-level experience designing and operating Windows Server HA and clustering (Failover Clustering and related components)
Strong Linux administration and automation experience (systemd, networking, storage, performance)
Advanced skills with Terraform and Ansible (architecture, reusable components, secure operations)
Strong deployment/release engineering experience with Octopus Deploy and GitHub (release governance, environment promotion, rollback)
Monitoring/observability expertise with VictoriaMetrics and/or Prometheus (alerting strategy, metrics design, operational readiness)
Production experience running Redis, RabbitMQ, Nginx (HA, tuning, troubleshooting)
Strong understanding of networking and security fundamentals (TLS, DNS, load balancing, firewalling, least privilege)
Proven ability to lead cross-team initiatives, make architectural decisions, and communicate clearly
Kubernetes and container ecosystems (Docker, Helm)

Benefits

Comp & perks

*We hire, promote, and compensate employees based on their ability to perform their job responsibilities, without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, gender, marital status, national origin, ancestry, age, citizenship, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by applicable law (collectively referred to in our Code of Conduct as “Protected Classes”). We do not tolerate employment discrimination in the workplace, and we are committed to making reasonable accommodations for identified disabilities or other limitations as required by all applicable laws. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.*

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Hard Skills & Tools

DevOpsPlatform EngineeringRelease EngineeringWindows Server HALinux AdministrationTerraformAnsibleOctopus DeployGitHubKubernetes

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcommunicationincident responsecapacity planningdesign reviewcross-team collaborationengineering quality improvement

Certifications

Bachelors degree in Computer Science