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# Lead DevOps Engineer

- **Company:** Pathfinder Business Solutions Ltd
- **Location:** Chester, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £70,000.0 - £80,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Configuration Management, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Open Web Application Security, Google Cloud, Cloud Platform System, Delivery Pipeline, Multi-Cloud, Kubernetes, Serverless Computing
- **Published:** September 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/lead-devops-engineer/pathfinder-business-solutions-ltd-job107989955

## About the Role

* Significant production experience with at least two of AWS, Azure and GCP
 * Deep production Kubernetes experience
 * Strong GitOps and infrastructure as code experience at scale
 * CI/CD pipeline automation experience
 * Extensive experience with declarative orchestration and configuration management
 * Knowledge of OWASP Top 10 CI/CD Security Risks and embedding security controls into delivery pipelines
 * Experience mentoring engineers, leading technical initiatives or acting as a technical lead
 * Strong communication skills, including documenting standards and influencing engineering teams

## Description

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.


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