Lead DevOps Engineer
Hands-on leadership role guiding a small DevOps team at an outsourced communications services organisation. Day to day: directing the team, setting engineering standards, and improving a multi-cloud platform across AWS, Azure and GCP using Kubernetes, GitOps, infrastructure as code and CI/CD, plus joining an on-call rota.
- Compensation
- £70K–£80K / yr
- Location
- Prescot, United Kingdom
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Lead
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Significant production experience with at least two of AWS, Azure and GCP
- Deep production Kubernetes experience
- Strong GitOps and infrastructure as code experience at scale
- CI/CD pipeline automation experience
- Extensive experience with declarative orchestration and configuration management
- Knowledge of OWASP Top 10 CI/CD Security Risks and embedding security controls into delivery pipelines
- Experience mentoring engineers, leading technical initiatives or acting as a technical lead
- Strong communication skills, including documenting standards and influencing engineering teams
- Willingness to participate in the shared on-call rota
Full description
Lead DevOps Engineer
Remote (UK Applicants Only - there will be an onsite final interview)
£70,000 - £80,000 + Benefits Pack
Lead DevOps Engineer with team leadership, Kubernetes and multi-cloud experience required by an outsourced communications services organisation. In this role you'll take the lead of a small DevOps team, shaping how the team works, developing engineers and driving the technical direction of a growing cloud platform.
This is a hands-on leadership role supporting products across AWS, Azure and GCP. You'll provide day-to-day direction to the team, establish consistent engineering standards and help build the team's capability, while working closely with development and infrastructure teams on resilient, cloud-native services.
You'll lead improvements across automation, GitOps, infrastructure as code and CI/CD, reducing manual effort while improving observability, SLOs, security, resilience and reliability. You'll also act as a senior escalation point for complex production issues and participate in the shared on-call rota.
You'll need:
Significant production experience with at least two of AWS, Azure and GCP
Deep production Kubernetes experience
Strong GitOps and infrastructure as code experience at scale
CI/CD pipeline automation experience
Extensive experience with declarative orchestration and configuration management
Knowledge of OWASP Top 10 CI/CD Security Risks and embedding security controls into delivery pipelines
Experience mentoring engineers, leading technical initiatives or acting as a technical lead
Strong communication skills, including documenting standards and influencing engineering teams
The package includes 25 days' annual leave plus bank holidays, subsidised meals, free on-site gym access, wellbeing facilities, mental health support and access to a 24/7 doctor line.
Get in touch to find out more.
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