Lead the evolution of tails.com’s AWS platform - design scalable, secure, resilient systems & turn complexity into clear, modern patterns.
Hi, we’re Tails.com – we turn good days into great years for dogs and their humans.
We're working towards longer lives for millions of healthy, happy dogs by providing tailored nutrition that adapts to each dog’s unique needs. It all starts with a few simple questions about their age, breed, zoomie level and tastebuds. From there, owners can create a personalised meal plan that's delivered to their door every month. No guesswork, no overwhelm. Just exactly the right care for every dog, every day. It's pretty clever stuff.
As a certified B Corp, being a responsible business is built into how we work – upholding high social and environmental standards to create better walkies for generations to come.
Now, we’re cooking up big plans. Having created an entirely new category in dog food, we have the backing of Purina – one of the world’s largest pet food companies. You’ll join a bunch of smart people working towards these same goals (and a bunch of very smart office dogs, all working on their own thing).
Senior Devops Engineer
Cloud Infrastructure Manager
Build our brand
We’re building an international brand, fast. We set ambitious goals. We challenge and support each other in equal measure. At the pace we’re moving, we prefer to test ideas and learn quickly rather than spend months building a business case. That means we celebrate when things go right, and we learn when things go wrong.
Sound like a team you want to join? Here’s how you’ll make a difference:
We want to reshape our cloud platform so it is intentionally designed for where the business is heading - scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-effective by design rather than by accumulation. This is where you come in.
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will help lead that evolution from within the platform. You will take a critical, system-level view of our AWS environment, its architecture, deployment model, resilience patterns, observability, security guardrails, and cost structure, and help define what good looks like for the next phase of tails.com.
This is not about incremental patching or maintaining the status quo. It is about applying sound engineering judgement to decide what should be retained, what should be simplified, and what should be redesigned. You will help turn accumulated complexity into clear, repeatable platform patterns that enable engineering teams to move quickly and safely.
You will work closely with our engineering teams to ensure services are designed for operability and scale from the outset, and with the tails.com security function to embed secure-by-default principles and strengthen resilience and detection capabilities across the platform.
This role is suited to a senior engineer who enjoys reducing systemic complexity, shaping architecture through influence rather than authority, and remaining hands-on while improving the foundations beneath a growing product organisation.
Key Responsibilities:
Cloud & Platform Engineering
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.
DevOps & Automation
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.
Security, Guardrails & Resilience
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.
Collaboration & Technical Influence
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.
Skills & Qualifications
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.
Key Attributes
Platform-minded and systems-oriented.
Reliability-focused and comfortable designing for failure.
Security-aware and pragmatic.
Influential through technical credibility rather than authority.
Calm under pressure and outcome-driven.
Private Healthcare through Aviva
A 9 day fortnight - our office is closed every other Friday!
25 days of Annual Leave and 8 additional remote working days
For more information on our benefits, perks and what makes us unique, please visit our website here
What’s next?
If this sounds like it matches your experience and what you’d love to do, we can’t wait to hear from you! If you’re unsure whether you fit our criteria exactly, please get in touch anyway. And because we believe that diverse teams perform better, we’d especially love to hear from you if you’re from an under-represented demographic.
Here’s a taster of how our recruitment process works:
Once you have applied your CV will be reviewed by the Talent Acquisition Team.
If selected, you will then have a call with the TA Team who will tell you more about us and the role, as well as learning more about your skills and experience.
Should you be successful, the next stage will be a video call with the hiring manager.
If successful, you will be invited to present a task back to a panel of interviewers.
The final stage is a video call with our wider squad (30 mins).
We’re proud to be an active equal opportunity employer. We want to give everyone a fair chance to join us in changing the world of pet food for good. We do this by conducting a structured recruitment process for all candidates, as well as actively promoting our roles to communities that are under-represented at Tails.com.
During your interview process you’ll meet some of our team with varying levels of responsibility and experience. We want to give every candidate a fair interview process and if you need any reasonable adjustments made, please let us know.
