Build and Release Engineer

ABOUT US

No call centre and no offshore help desk. When clients call, one of us picks up. Clients have the owner's cell number, and the owner still takes the occassional Saturday call. Founded in 2024, we now have 13 employees.

WHAT THIS JOB IS

We are adding a Build and Release Engineer to our operations team. We are moving workloads from VMs to Kubernetes and want someone who has done that kind of migration before. The operations team supports about 40 developers. We need someone to make deploys faster and less scary. Our headquarters is in Reading, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. Employment is through our payroll partner in Costa Rica. Salary is paid monthly in local currency. Core hours are 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM UK time. Clear written English is a must, as the team works across time zones.

WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON

• Manage cloud infrastructure with Terraform, including modules, remote state and drift detection.
• Participate in on-call and incident response.
• Implement blue-green and canary deployments.
• Enforce security baselines: CIS benchmarks, image scanning, least-privilege IAM.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or Azure DevOps.
• Run Kubernetes clusters on EKS, AKS or GKE and maintain Helm charts.

WHAT YOU BRING

• 2-4 years in DevOps, systems engineering or a related infrastructure role.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure or GCP in production.
• Solid Linux administration and networking basics (DNS, load balancers, TLS)
• Understanding of observability tools and how to design useful alerts.
• Familiarity with Git branching strategies and release management.

PLUSES

• Packer for image builds.

WHAT WE OFFER

Salary: CRC 2,600,000 - CRC 3,000,000 per month

• Monthly internet allowance.
• Stock options.
• Paid parental leave.
• 24 days paid time off.
• Annual learning budget.
• Wellness allowance.

We look at every application, usually within a week.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Hazelhook.