DevOps Tech Lead
Permanent
Location: UK - Remote
Inspera 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 Tech 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 Role
You will lead the design, evolution and reliability of Inspera’s AWS platform across multiple environments, ensuring security, scalability and operational excellence.
Platform Architecture & Cloud Engineering
* Own 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 environments
CI/CD & Release Engineering
* Design and optimise CI/CD pipelines
* Improve deployment reliability and progressive delivery practices
* Standardise release processes across engineering teams
Reliability & Observability
* Define SLIs/SLOs with engineering teams
* Improve monitoring, alerting and incident response maturity
* Lead post-incident reviews and drive reduction of operational toil
Security & Compliance
* Embed DevSecOps controls into pipelines
* Implement least-privilege IAM models
* Support ISO 27001 evidence automation
FinOps & Cost Optimisation
* Partner on cloud cost strategy and forecasting
* Improve tagging, allocation and rightsizing practices
About You
* 5+ years in DevOps / Cloud Engineering
* 3+ years in a technical leadership capacity
* Strong 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 environments
* Strong incident management and RCA experience
Experience in regulated environments (ISO 27001, SOC2) and multi-region cloud setups is highly desirable.