Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer / DevOps Team Lead – Insurtech UK Remote | Competitive Salary Are you an experienced DevOps Engineer looking for the opportunity to remain technically hands-on while taking your first or next step into team leadership? We are recruiting for an exciting, growing Insurtech business developing sophisticated data and risk technology for the Property Insurance market. Their platform helps major clients understand and manage risk across large property portfolios, using advanced data, analytics and emerging AI technologies. This is a great opportunity to join a small, highly capable technology team where you will have genuine influence over the company’s DevOps environment and how it evolves. The Role Reporting to the Head of Technology, you’ll take responsibility for the day-to-day DevOps environment while initially providing technical guidance, coaching and support to a small number of more junior engineers, This is very much a hands-on, player-coach role – you’ll still be personally involved in technical delivery rather than simply allocating work and managing a team. Typical responsibilities will include: Designing, building and maintaining cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling, ensuring secure, scalable and reliable environmentsRemaining hands-on with day-to-day DevOps delivery, including writing and managing DevOps tickets, implementing infrastructure changes, automating deployments and resolving technical issuesMentoring and coaching junior engineers, providing technical guidance, code reviews and support while helping them develop their skillsWorking closely with the Head of Technology, Software Engineering and Data Science teams to prioritise workloads and ensure infrastructure supports the company’s product and technology roadmapMonitoring platform performance, security and reliability, proactively improving resilience, observability, automation and cost efficiencyHelping establish and champion DevOps best practice across Infrastructure as Code, monitoring, incident management, documentation and continuous improvement About You We are looking for an experienced DevOps professional who combines strong technical capability with the communication and interpersonal skills to support and develop others. You’ll need to bring: Strong commercial experience within DevOps, Cloud or Platform EngineeringExcellent hands-on experience with Microsoft AzureInsurance or Insurtech experience is essential, particularly exposure to data-led insurance platforms, Property Risk, Commercial Insurance or related technologyStrong knowledge of CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automation, monitoring and cloud securityExperience working within modern software development environments and collaborating closely with engineering teamsPrevious experience mentoring, coaching or informally leading other engineers – you don’t necessarily need to have managed a large teamThe confidence to work autonomously within a small, entrepreneurial technology business and report directly to senior technical leadership Why Join? This is an opportunity to join an innovative Insurtech at an exciting stage of its development. You’ll have the autonomy and technical challenge of a start-up environment, while working on sophisticated technology used to help major organisations understand and manage property risk. For someone who enjoys being hands-on technically but is also ready to develop their leadership responsibilities, the role offers considerable scope to grow as the technology platform and engineering team expand.