Principal DevOps Engineer
7 days ago
Glasgow
Job Title: Principal DevOps Engineer (Hybrid Platform & CI/CD Focus) Location: Remote (Must be based in The UK) Salary: £95,000 - £105,000 We’re looking for a hands-on Principal DevOps Engineer to join a growing platform team, focused on building and evolving CI/CD and delivery systems across a hybrid cloud and on-premise environment. This is not a typical cloud-native or Kubernetes role. The focus is on Docker-based workloads, build tooling, and developer platform engineering within a hybrid infrastructure. You’ll play a key role in designing and building CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, and infrastructure platforms used across multiple engineering teams. This is a high-autonomy role, where you’ll be expected to take ownership of platform components, contribute to technical direction, and improve how software is built, tested, and deployed. The Role • Designing and building CI/CD pipelines and delivery systems (GitHub Actions preferred), • Developing reusable workflows, pipeline templates, and build frameworks, • Working with Docker (including Compose) to support consistent development and production environments, • Building and maintaining Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or Ansible) across hybrid environments, • Supporting and evolving build tooling (for example .NET CLI or MSBuild, Maven, Gradle), • Improving developer experience, deployment speed, and platform reliability, • Working across both cloud and on-premise systems (VMware, datacentres, etc.) Skills Needed: • Strong experience building and owning CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks, • Deep experience with Docker (ideally Docker Compose, multi-stage builds, optimisation), • Experience with build tooling such as:, • .NET CLI or MSBuild, • Maven or Gradle, • Hands-on experience with Terraform or similar Infrastructure-as-Code tools, • Experience working in hybrid environments (cloud and on-premise infrastructure), • Ability to design solutions, not just implement them and explain trade-offs, • Comfortable working with high autonomy and ownership What This Role Is NOT • Not a Kubernetes-focused role (Kubernetes is not part of the environment), • Not a pure cloud-native or microservices platform role, • Not a consulting-style position. We’re looking for engineers who build and own systems, not just advise Research indicates that men will apply to a role when they meet only 50–60% of the requirements, while women and other underrepresented groups often look for a 90–100% match. If this role excites you but you don’t tick every single box, please still apply. We’d love to hear from you.