Director of DevOps

As a critical member of the technology leadership team, you will be responsible all aspects of Continual Delivery and the live support of our platforms. You will lead a team of experts who will ensure we have a modern approach to the automated build and release of our Lending platforms and an SRE team which ensures they operate in a safe and efficient manner:

• Build and own a modern DevOps culture, including the right tooling, automation, and support systems.

• Champion a "you build it, you run it" approach - ensuring safe, secure, and compliant delivery practices.

• Lead and develop an exceptional SRE function focused on stability, observability, and continuous improvement.

• Drive cloud excellence, maximising performance, reliability, and value through strong FinOps and vendor management.

• Oversee live environments, ensuring full traceability, rapid service restoration, and proactive incident prevention.

• Create scalable DevOps strategies and architectures that support all engineering teams and legacy platforms effectively.

• Empower and upskill teams, fostering an enabling culture that shares best practices and builds internal capability.

• Monitor and report on performance, using data and metrics to drive efficiency, quality, and operational insight.

• Stay ahead of emerging technologies and trends to continually enhance our software delivery capabilities.

Do you have experience in Release management?, * Proven leadership in technology and delivery, overseeing DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering functions.

• Expert knowledge of DevOps practices, including automation, CI/CD pipelines, and modern tooling for build and release management.

• Strong understanding of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP) - with the ability to optimise performance, reliability, and cost.

• Experience implementing and leading a DevOps culture, including ownership of tooling, support systems, and process design.

• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) expertise, ensuring platforms operate safely, efficiently, and with minimal downtime.

• FinOps (cloud financial management) experience, ensuring cost-effectiveness and return on cloud investments.

• Operational excellence in live environment management, including incident response, traceability, and service restoration.

• Experience designing and managing DevOps architecture, tools, and technologies across large-scale or complex systems.

• Strong collaboration with cloud vendors to leverage new technologies and optimise system capabilities.

• Ability to foster an enabling culture, empowering teams with the right skills, tools, and autonomy to succeed.

• Pragmatic approach to legacy systems, knowing when "good enough" is the right approach for stability and progress.

• Data-driven mindset, using metrics and monitoring to report on efficiency, performance, and outages.

• Strong coaching and mentoring capability, designing and leading DevOps and SRE training programs.

• Continuous improvement orientation, staying up to date with emerging technologies, trends, and best practices.

Pulled from the full job description

• Employee discount
• Gym membership
• Company pension
• Paid volunteer time
• Private medical insurance
• Cycle to work scheme, Flexible Working: 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, bank holiday trading and holiday purchase options, the opportunity to work from anywhere in the world for up to 4 weeks per year, and a flexible hybrid working policy.

Looking After You: Life Assurance, Group Income Protection, Private Medical Insurance, a pension scheme via Salary Exchange, an Employee Assistance Programme, and access to a Virtual GP.

Family-Friendly Policies: Enhanced maternity and paternity pay, as well as paid time off for fertility treatments and pregnancy loss.

Extra Perks: Cycle to Work Scheme, discounts on shops, restaurants, and gym memberships, free fresh fruit daily, and opportunities to join colleague networks and social groups.

Giving Back: One paid volunteering day annually and the Give-As-You-Earn scheme to support your favourite charities.

Finova is the UK's largest financial services technology provider, supporting one in every five mortgages nationwide. Our agile, cloud-native solutions enable over 60 banks, building societies, specialist lenders, equity release providers and a network of 2,400+ brokers to stay ahead in a competitive market. Built on open architecture and backed by deep industry expertise, our platform is designed to scale. Each year, we process over £50 billion in loans, manage nearly £50 billion in savings, and support the digital servicing of more than 650,000 UK borrower accounts. Be part of a team that's driving innovation, enabling growth and shaping the future of UK lending. For Lenders Finova offers a flexible, modular technology suite designed to help lenders move faster, scale efficiently and deliver standout digital experiences.