Lead DevOps Engineer

Salary: £65,000 - 105,000 per year

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

Responsibilities:

• 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

Technologies:

• AI
• AWS
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• CRM
• DevOps
• GitOps
• Kubernetes

More:

We are a market-leading technology firm offering a Lead DevOps Engineer role on a remote-first basis, with quarterly visits to our Chester-based office. This is a hands-on leadership position within a small, experienced DevOps team, 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 play a key part in a major replatforming programme, rebuilding a core CRM platform in AWS and Kubernetes while supporting the infrastructure behind innovative AI products. The role is permanent and offers a salary of up to 80,000 plus great benefits.

last updated 36 week of 2026