Lead/Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior / Lead DevOps Engineer Two levels available - we'll discuss the right fit for your experience Industry: Compliance Technology / RegTech / FinTech SaaS Location: Manchester (Hybrid, 1-2 days a week in the office) Salary: £70,000 – £110,000, depending on level and experience Are you a hands-on cloud and DevOps engineer who just wants to get on with the job? We're working with a fast-scaling compliance technology business looking for a Senior/Lead DevOps Engineer who can pick up complex platform work and run with it, no hand-holding required. We're hiring at two levels for this position, Senior DevOps Engineer and Lead DevOps Engineer, because we know great candidates come with a range of experience. Wherever you land, we'll talk it through with you during the process and shape the offer, scope and salary around the level that's the right match. About the Company Our client sits at the centre of how the world's biggest regulated financial firms manage risk. Their platform captures and supervises digital communications across email, MS Teams, WhatsApp, iMessage and more, giving compliance teams the confidence to say yes to new channels and new ways of working, without losing sight of what matters. Following a recent merger, the business now brings together content compliance, distribution and communications supervision into a single, connected platform, governing the entire regulated communication lifecycle end to end. The combined business works with 17 of the top 20 global asset managers and supports more than 1,550 regulated firms worldwide, with AI at the heart of how it surfaces risk and cuts down manual review time. Backed by significant investment and growing fast, particularly across the US, this is a pivotal moment for the engineering team, and a genuinely exciting time to join. The Role This is a hands-on, execution-focused role, and we're recruiting for it at two levels: Senior DevOps Engineer – you'll take ownership of production platform work and infrastructure builds with real autonomy, working alongside the Lead DevOps Engineer and the wider platform team, but without needing detailed direction on how to get things done. Lead DevOps Engineer – you'll take on that same hands-on ownership, plus set technical direction for the platform, mentor other engineers, and help shape how DevOps practice scales across the wider engineering team. If you're the kind of engineer who sees a problem, understands the priorities, and just gets on with solving it, this is built for you, whichever level matches where you are. What You'll Do Take ownership of day-to-day production platform reliability, focusing on web crawl and message processing systemsBuild and maintain monitoring and observability tooling using Grafana, Sentry, Prometheus, CloudWatch and PagerDutyManage Linux-based systems (Amazon Linux 2023) and keep them running smoothlyWrite and maintain automation in Bash, Python and JavaScriptWork hands-on across core AWS services: Lambda, ECS Fargate, SQS, SNS, Aurora (PostgreSQL & MySQL) and S3Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code using TerraformOwn and improve CI/CD workflows using GitHub ActionsPartner with software engineering teams to embed good DevOps practice into their day-to-day workflowsAddress developer experience issues and help resolve security concerns as they come upManage secrets securely across CI/CD pipelinesAt Lead level, you'll also set technical direction across these areas and mentor other engineers on the platform team What You'll Bring Solid, proven experience as a DevOps or Platform Engineer, ideally within a scaling SaaS environmentStrong working knowledge of AWS services and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)Confident scripting ability in Bash, Python, and ideally JavaScriptExperience with CI/CD workflows, ideally GitHub ActionsA genuinely autonomous working style: comfortable prioritising your own workload and getting on with itA collaborative approach to working alongside software engineering teamsStrong troubleshooting instincts and a pragmatic, get-it-done attitudeFor Lead-level candidates: experience mentoring engineers and setting technical direction across a platform or infrastructure team Why Join A hands-on role with real autonomy and trust from day oneWork at the centre of a newly combined platform serving some of the biggest names in global financial servicesBacked by significant investment and scaling fast, particularly in the USFlexible hybrid working from Manchester, with the option to work from anywhere in the UKJoin a growing platform team at a genuinely pivotal point in the company's growth The Package £70,000 – £110,000, depending on level and experienceShare options25 days holiday + bank holidays + your birthday offVitality health insurance + cash planJuno wellbeing benefit (£100/month)Enhanced pension + life insurance (4x salary)Latest MacBook Pro + equipment budgetFlexible hybrid working from Manchester, 2-4 office days a month, open to candidates from across the UK At Inara Talent, we believe everyone deserves a fair chance to shine. We connect great people from all backgrounds with opportunities where they can thrive, making sure hiring is fair, inclusive, and genuinely diverse. No matter your background, we focus on what matters: your talent.