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# DevOps Lead

- **Company:** ClearRoute
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Audit Trail, Automation of Tests, Continuous Integration, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), DevOps, Programming Tools, Github, Workflow Management Systems, Delivery Pipeline, Vulnerability Analysis
- **Published:** June 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=5c1259d102e416e4

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Software deployment?, Proven DevOps leadership across multiple teams in an enterprise environment - owning and enforcing delivery standards, not just implementing pipelines
Advanced GitHub Actions experience including reusable workflow design, centralised deployment logic, and cross-repository governance at scale
Strong AWS DevOps experience - deploying, operating, and governing services on AWS with a security and compliance mindset
Demonstrable experience governing developer tooling - policies, guardrails, and audit approaches that extend credibly to AI and agentic development tools
Security and compliance integration within CI/CD pipelines - scanning, policy enforcement, and drift detection embedded as standard practice

Desirable Experience:

Hands-on experience with agentic editors (Claude Code, Cursor, or equivalent) in a team delivery context - sufficient to govern their use and define appropriate guardrails
Prior experience in financial services or a regulated environment where audit trails, change control, and governance are non-negotiable
Background bridging platform engineering and application delivery teams - comfortable operating across both layers and translating between them
Familiarity with skills marketplace, API catalogue, or developer portal governance - relevant to the GitHub-based marketplace James Brown's team has already built
Experience supporting the onboarding of large engineering cohorts onto new tooling or ways of working - directly applicable to the 120+ engineer scaling challenge

## Description

Senior DevOps leader responsible for owning the end-to-end delivery pipeline and toolchain governance across the agentic development programme
Acts as the connective tissue between the platform engineering layer and application delivery teams, ensuring both move at pace within consistent, auditable standards
Central authority on CI/CD standards, GitHub-based workflow design, and the governance framework for AI-assisted developer tooling across 120+ engineers
Works across Platform Engineers and Lead Engineers to maintain integrated pipelines, shared standards, and a coherent delivery operating model as the programme scales
Operates in a matrixed enterprise environment with a high degree of autonomy , expected to define and enforce standards, not simply follow them, Define and own CI/CD pipeline standards across both platform and application work streams, ensuring consistency, security, and repeatability at programme scale
Design and implement governance frameworks for developer desktop AI tools - covering usage policies, guardrails, audit trails, and compliance controls Integrate delivery workflows with existing GitHub-based skills marketplace and wider DevOps toolchain
Embed automated testing, security scanning, drift detection, and compliance checks directly into all delivery pipelines across the programme
Proactively identify and resolve delivery bottlenecks across 10-12 engineering teams, bridging technical and organisational blockers to keep momentum


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