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 systems
• Build and maintain monitoring and observability tooling using Grafana, Sentry, Prometheus, CloudWatch and PagerDuty
• Manage Linux-based systems (Amazon Linux 2023) and keep them running smoothly
• Write and maintain automation in Bash, Python and JavaScript
• Work hands-on across core AWS services: Lambda, ECS Fargate, SQS, SNS, Aurora (PostgreSQL & MySQL) and S3
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
• Own and improve CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions
• Partner with software engineering teams to embed good DevOps practice into their day-to-day workflows
• Address developer experience issues and help resolve security concerns as they come up
• Manage secrets securely across CI/CD pipelines
• At 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 environment
• Strong working knowledge of AWS services and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Confident scripting ability in Bash, Python, and ideally JavaScript
• Experience with CI/CD workflows, ideally GitHub Actions
• A genuinely autonomous working style: comfortable prioritising your own workload and getting on with it
• A collaborative approach to working alongside software engineering teams
• Strong troubleshooting instincts and a pragmatic, get-it-done attitude
• For 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 one
• Work at the centre of a newly combined platform serving some of the biggest names in global financial services
• Backed by significant investment and scaling fast, particularly in the US
• Flexible hybrid working from Manchester, with the option to work from anywhere in the UK
• Join a growing platform team at a genuinely pivotal point in the company's growth

The Package

• £70,000 – £110,000, depending on level and experience
• Share options
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays + your birthday off
• Vitality health insurance + cash plan
• Juno wellbeing benefit (£100/month)
• Enhanced pension + life insurance (4x salary)
• Latest MacBook Pro + equipment budget
• Flexible 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.