Own and evolve the AWS platform architecture for scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency.
Lead architectural redesign where systems show strain or fragility.
Establish reusable infrastructure patterns that reduce drift and technical debt.
Improve operational maturity through strong observability and reliability practices.
Design release strategies that keep production changes safe and predictable.
Eliminate manual processes through automation across the platform.
Turn incidents into architectural improvements through effective remediation.
Improve developer experience by making the right way the easy way.
Embed secure-by-default principles into platform architecture and delivery pipelines.
Strengthen cloud identity boundaries, isolation, and defence-in-depth.
Partner with the tails.com security team to evolve resilience, monitoring, and threat detection capabilities.
Ensure backup, recovery, and failure-domain strategies are deliberate, tested, and robust.
Engage early in service design to ensure reliability, scalability, and security are built in.
Challenge designs that introduce risk or unnecessary complexity.
Contribute to platform standards and reference architectures.
Raise engineering standards through example, peer review, and pragmatic mentorship.

Significant experience building and evolving AWS cloud platforms in production
Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalability, resilience, and operational risk
Deep experience with Infrastructure as Code and platform automation
Experience designing safe, reliable deployment and release strategies
Strong grasp of cloud security fundamentals and secure-by-default architecture
Experience working with security teams to strengthen resilience and detection capabilities
Solid scripting and automation capability
Clear communicator, able to translate technical risk into pragmatic improvements

Competitive salary, reviewed annually
Annual bonus, based on company performance
Flexible core hours, giving you true work life balance
Hybrid role to ensure this role works for you
We expect employees to have a conducive remote working environment (including an appropriate desk and adjustable chair) available for their start date.
25 days of holiday (excluding bank holidays) which increases over time to a max of 27 days
9/10 day working week to enhance your wellbeing without a reduction in pay and leave allowance
Optional 5 days unpaid leave and 1 paid volunteer day each year
When you need a change of scenery, you can work from abroad 2 weeks every 6 months
Health insurance for you, paid by Tails.com
Extended maternity, paternity, shared parental and adoption pay. 6 months at 70% pay
Flexible paid care leave to support immediate dependants, people close to you and pets
In house L&D team, with access to year round courses to help drive your development
50% discount on all Tails.com
Discounted gym membership

Senior Devops Engineer

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