Principal DevOps Engineer

📋 Job Overview

We fuse together exceptional talent who deliver outstanding software solutions. Our approach has helped us grow 60% in 2021, 94% in 2022, while in 2023 we joined forces with Insight, a Fortune 500 company and a leading solutions and systems integrator. With exciting growth plans and cutting-edge projects, there has never been a better time to join our incredible team.

🏢 About Amdaris

Our broader architectural direction is already taking shape, including DDD, microfrontends and Backend-for-Frontend (BFF), while our infrastructure direction is standardising around AWS, Terraform, GitHub Actions and ECS/Fargate. However, important decisions remain around areas such as gateways and routing, scalability, observability, resilience, deployment architecture, and how existing systems should progressively move toward the target state.

🎯 The Role

We are looking for a highly experienced Principal Devops Engineer to help lead the infrastructure and reliability architecture for the technology landscape as we accelerate our modernisation journey.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the target infrastructure and reliability architecture.
• Consolidate architectural decisions already underway into a coherent, scalable, and maintainable target state.
• Define pragmatic modernisation strategies for existing systems, balancing business value, technical risk, cost, and migration effort.
• Assess systems and recommend whether they should be incrementally modernised, aligned with the target architecture, temporarily retained, or eventually replaced.
• Define transition patterns that allow teams to modernise without unnecessary large scale rewrites.
• Establish the target architecture and infrastructure patterns as the default for new modules.
• Identify architectural gaps, risks, and cross-system dependencies across landscape.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Extensive professional experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
• Strong track record defining cloud and infrastructure architecture across multiple teams or services.
• Experience leading or shaping modernisation across technology estates containing both legacy and modern systems.
• Ability to define a target architecture while creating realistic incremental migration paths toward it.
• Strong architectural judgment and the ability to balance technical quality, delivery speed, risk, cost, and organisational constraints.
• Strong technical depth and willingness to create prototypes or reference implementations when needed to validate architectural decisions.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience with Backend-for-Frontend and microfrontend architectures.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and Kafka/MSK.
• Experience with OpenTelemetry and modern observability platforms.
• Experience with progressive delivery approaches such as canary or blue/green deployments.
• Experience with cloud cost optimisation or FinOps practices.
• Experience defining architecture standards, paved roads, or engineering golden paths across multiple autonomous teams.
• Experience working in EdTech, digital learning, or another large global technology organisation.

🎁 Benefits

• Opportunities for certification and training
• Dual monitor setup and high-spec workstations
• English courses
• Gym allowance
• Medical Reimbursement
• Full salary covered up to 20 days of sickness
• Flexible working hours
• Loyalty scheme
• Team building activities, special events and conferences
• UK/EU Travel opportunities
• Snacks and drinks in the office