> Markdown version of [/jobs/ext/3058887-devops-infrastructure-lead](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/jobs/ext/3058887-devops-infrastructure-lead). Every page supports `.md` or `Accept: text/markdown`. Links point to the HTML versions so they work for humans too. Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md).

---

# DevOps & Infrastructure Lead.

- **Company:** Copello Global
- **Location:** Gloucester, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Continuous Integration, DevOps, Key Management, Prometheus, Data Logging, Grafana, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Deployment Automation, Data Management, Terraform, Docker
- **Published:** September 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://copello.co.uk/jobs/3923-devops-infrastructure-lead/

## About the Role

* Strong DevOps or infrastructure engineering experience, ideally with experience leading or mentoring technical teams.
 * Experience delivering secure cloud infrastructure and services alongside on premise platform environments.
 * Strong infrastructure as code experience using Terraform and Helm.
 * Experience with automation or tooling development using Go.
 * Container and orchestration experience with Docker, Kubernetes and Helm.
 * Experience with CI/CD and GitOps tooling, ideally including ArgoCD and automated deployment pipelines.
 * Good understanding of observability, monitoring and alerting using technologies such as Prometheus and Grafana.
 * Strong understanding of security, networking, logging, secrets management and operational assurance.
 * The ability to learn new technologies quickly and help others adopt them safely and effectively., If you're an experienced DevOps or Infrastructure Engineer with strong Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Go and CI/CD experience and you're interested in working on technically challenging National Security projects, I'd be keen to hear from you.

## Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a DevOps & Infrastructure Lead to join a specialist technology organisation working on complex, high stakes projects within the National Security sector.

The role will focus on delivering and maintaining high throughput, high capacity data platforms across both on premise environments and cloud based solutions.

You'll take a hands on technical leadership role across DevOps, infrastructure engineering, CI/CD, observability, infrastructure as code and platform automation, helping teams deliver secure, reliable and scalable services in demanding environments.

What you'll be doing
You'll lead a team developing, operating and continuously improving secure on premise and cloud data platform capabilities.

 * Partner with engineering and customer technical leaders to shape platform, infrastructure and delivery roadmaps.
 * Lead the design, development and operation of high throughput, high capacity on premise data platforms and associated cloud based solutions.
 * Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows and automated deployment approaches using tools such as ArgoCD.
 * Implement and improve observability using Prometheus, Grafana, logging and alerting to support resilient platform operations.
 * Use infrastructure as code and platform automation with Helm, Go and Terraform to deliver repeatable and assured environments.
 * Mentor engineers, review technical approaches and help teams adopt modern DevOps and platform engineering practices.
 * Lead and contribute to agile ceremonies, keeping delivery aligned to user needs, operational constraints and security expectations.


## Related Videos

- [My journey into DevOps world - How it all started!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/545-my-journey-into-devops-world-how-it-all-started)
- [Monitoring as Code - Managing your dashboards at scale](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/753-monitoring-as-code-managing-your-dashboards-at-scale)
- [Docker Compose: Rediscovered](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1978-docker-compose-rediscovered)
- [Shifting Stress to Progress— Understanding DevOps to do DevOps Better](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/268-shifting-stress-to-progress-understanding-devops-to-do-devops-better)
- [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform)
- [#90DaysOfDevOps - The DevOps Learning Journey](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/548-90daysofdevops-the-devops-learning-journey)

## Related Articles

- [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again)
- [DevOps Engineer Salary [2023]](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/203-devops-engineer-salary-2023)
- [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline)
- [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers)
- [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs)
- [Dev Digest 191: Malware interviews, EU ❤️ Open Source and Skilled Agents](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/645-dev-digest-191-malware-interviews-eu-open-source-and-skilled-agents)