Lead DevOps Engineer

ShortList Recruitment Limited

Chester, UK

4 days ago

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Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Experience level

Expert

Compensation

£80,000.0

Working hours

Regular working hours

Job source

www.adzuna.co.uk

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure Continuous Integration DevOps Cloud Platform System Reliability of Systems Kubernetes

Job description

Our client is looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer to provide technical leadership within a small, experienced DevOps team. This is a hands-on role where you will help bring the team together, provide technical direction, mentor engineers and act as the key point of contact for DevOps across the wider business. You will also play a key role in a major replatforming programme, rebuilding a core CRM platform in AWS and Kubernetes, alongside supporting the infrastructure behind innovative AI products., * Provide technical leadership, mentoring and day-to-day direction to a small, distributed DevOps team

Establish consistent engineering standards, tooling and best practices across the team
Act as a senior technical point of contact for stakeholders, development and infrastructure teams
Lead the design and implementation of cloud-native infrastructure, automation and deployment solutions using IaC and GitOps practices
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable development teams to deploy applications quickly and reliably
Improve monitoring, observability and incident response to enhance system reliability and resilience
Contribute to the ongoing replatforming of services towards AWS and Kubernetes, identifying opportunities to automate, improve performance and reduce operational risk, The Lead DevOps Engineer role is remote-first, with quarterly visits to the Chester-based office. The role is paying a salary up to £80,000 plus great benefits.

Requirements

Significant hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production environments
Strong production experience with at least two major cloud providers, particularly AWS and Azure
Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code and GitOps practices
Proficiency with CI/CD automation and pipeline tooling
Experience designing and operating resilient, cloud-native platforms
Experience mentoring engineers or providing technical leadership within a DevOps, Platform or SRE environment
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to represent a technical team across the wider business