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# Head of DevOps

- **Company:** Prism Digital
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £120,000.0 - £135,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Microsoft Azure, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PAAS), Release Management, Ansible, Gitlab-ci, Terraform, Jenkins
- **Published:** August 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5828587611

## About the Role

* Azure
 * CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitLab CI)
 * Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
 * Third-party and vendor management
 * 10+ years across DevOps and tooling or automation

What You'll Work With:

 * Ansible
 * Self-service environment provisioning
 * PaaS and IaaS platforms
 * CI/CD governance and release management
 * A large legacy estate part-way through modernisation
 * UK and India engineering teams plus offshore delivery partners

Nice to Haves:

 * Insurance, banking or other regulated-sector experience
 * Azure certifications
 * ITIL or Agile certifications
 * Experience in large, matrix-managed global organisations

## Description

You'll own a 40-person function end to end, with a budget of around £1 to £1.5m and real say over how the operating model develops as the business modernises. The brief is wide: strategy and roadmap, day-to-day delivery, major programme work, vendor management and budget.


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