Lead DevOps Engineer

Itistheway — United Kingdom · Posted ~5 hours ago

Lead Full-time Remote £70000-£80000 + benefits

Skills

DevOps Team leadership Kubernetes Multi-cloud AWS Azure GCP GitOps Infrastructure as Code CI/CD Automation

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Summary ✨ AI‑Generated

Lead a small DevOps team while remaining hands-on with a growing multi-cloud platform. You’ll guide engineers, shape technical direction, improve GitOps, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, security, resilience, and reliability across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Highlights

Remote UK role with team leadership responsibility and significant influence over cloud platform strategy. You’ll develop engineers, establish engineering standards, lead automation and reliability improvements, and work hands-on across multiple major cloud platforms.

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 GCPDeep production Kubernetes experienceStrong GitOps and infrastructure as code experience at scaleCI/CD pipeline automation experienceExtensive experience with declarative orchestration and configuration managementKnowledge of OWASP Top 10 CI/CD Security Risks and embedding security controls into delivery pipelinesExperience mentoring engineers, leading technical initiatives or acting as a technical leadStrong 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.