DevOps Technical Lead

DevOps Technical LeadPermanentLocation

UK - RemoteInspera is a global SaaS company transforming digital assessment and learning technology.

As we continue to scale our cloud-native platform, we are looking for a hands-on DevOps Technical Lead to own and evolve our AWS infrastructure, reliability strategy and DevOps standards.This is a technical leadership role for someone who still enjoys being close to the code and infrastructure — but wants to shape platform direction at scale.The RoleYou will lead the design, evolution and reliability of Inspera’s AWS platform across multiple environments, ensuring security, scalability and operational excellence.Platform Architecture & Cloud EngineeringOwn AWS multi-account architecture (secure-by-design)Define infrastructure standards (networking, IAM, logging, DR)Lead Infrastructure-as-Code strategy (Terraform preferred)Ensure high availability and resilience across production SaaS environmentsCI/CD & Release EngineeringDesign and optimise CI/CD pipelinesImprove deployment reliability and progressive delivery practicesStandardise release processes across engineering teamsReliability & ObservabilityDefine SLIs/SLOs with engineering teamsImprove monitoring, alerting and incident response maturityLead post-incident reviews and drive reduction of operational toilSecurity & ComplianceEmbed DevSecOps controls into pipelinesImplement least-privilege IAM modelsSupport ISO 27001 evidence automationFinOps & Cost OptimisationPartner on cloud cost strategy and forecastingImprove tagging, allocation and rightsizing practicesAbout You5+ years in DevOps / Cloud Engineering3+ years in a technical leadership capacityStrong AWS expertise (VPC, IAM, EC2, RDS, EKS, Lambda)Proven Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform preferred)CI/CD tooling experience (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)Observability tooling (Datadog, Prometheus, ELK, etc.)Experience operating production SaaS environmentsStrong incident management and RCA experienceExperience in regulated environments (ISO 27001, SOC2) and multi-region cloud setups is highly desirable.