AND Digital
Lead DevOps Engineer (12 Month FTC)
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Lead DevOps Engineer - 12 Month FTC
Who We Are:
AND Digital are a tech company focused on accelerating digital delivery and dedicated to closing the digital skills gap. We’ve been helping organisations build better digital products and stronger digital teams since 2014.
We believe our work should always leave a legacy for the client. We do this through close relationships with our offices (or ‘Clubs’) so that our partners are always prioritised by a regional team close to them.
This unique model has driven success for our clients and ourselves, evidenced by our remarkable organic growth since 2014. Today we number more than 1,300 people with Clubs all over the UK and Europe with plans for global expansion in the next couple of years.
Join us - and help us fulfil our mission to close the world’s digital skills gap.
The Role
We are looking for an experienced Lead DevOps Engineer to take technical ownership of the cloud infrastructure, deployment platforms and operational tooling that underpin our clients Accounts platform.
You will play a key leadership role in building and evolving a secure, resilient and highly scalable AWS environment, while establishing engineering standards and best practices across infrastructure, automation, observability and operational excellence.
Working closely with software engineering, security and platform teams, you will lead the design and implementation of reliable delivery processes and help ensure the Accounts platform can operate securely and efficiently at scale.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and ownership of the AWS cloud infrastructure supporting the Accounts platform.
- Design, build and continuously improve scalable, resilient and secure cloud architectures.
- Lead the development and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines, enabling reliable, automated and efficient software delivery.
- Establish and champion Infrastructure as Code practices, primarily using Terraform.
- Define and improve monitoring, observability, alerting and operational controls across the platform.
- Drive best practices around cloud security, networking, access control and infrastructure governance.
- Lead the technical response to production incidents, ensuring effective diagnosis, remediation and preventative action.
- Identify opportunities to improve platform reliability, performance, scalability and operational efficiency.
- Develop standards, patterns and reusable tooling that enable engineering teams to operate effectively.
- Mentor and support other DevOps, platform and engineering team members, promoting strong engineering practices.
- Contribute to technical strategy and roadmap decisions for the platform and wider DevOps capability.
- Champion automation and continuous improvement, reducing manual operational overhead and improving developer experience.
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Essential Experience & Technical Expertise
We are particularly interested in candidates with strong experience in:
- AWS cloud infrastructure and services.
- Terraform and Infrastructure as Code at scale.
- Designing and operating robust CI/CD platforms and deployment pipelines.
- Monitoring, observability and alerting, including establishing effective operational metrics and controls.
- Cloud security, identity and access management, networking and infrastructure governance.
- Platform engineering and production operations, including incident management and service reliability.
- Automation and scripting using technologies such as Python, Bash or similar.
- Designing highly available, resilient and scalable production environments.
- Applying DevOps and SRE principles to improve reliability and operational maturity.
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Why join AND Digital?
We have three values: wonder, share, and delight. These values inform how we work with clients, and our culture: what it feels like to work for AND. We believe collaboration, ambition, curiosity and fun can drive innovation by creating a better environment for problem-solving.
By joining AND, we’ll provide:
- Opportunities to work on projects with big clients and the chance to produce meaningful work that makes a difference to people’s lives.
- A “Blended Working” model, meaning you will be able to work in a range of locations from; your home, in your clubhouse, on a client, as well as just a change of scenery.
- A dedicated career scrum team, designed to help you reach your career goals and develop the skills you need to be your best self.
- An annual budget for training and upskilling, including allocated days off so you don’t have to study in your own free time.
- Monthly and quarterly team socials - on us - ranging from after work drinks, to driving experience days with your fellow club members.
- A safe environment for you to be yourself and challenge yourself.
Equal Opportunities Statement
At AND Digital we embrace diversity and are committed to equal opportunities. We are actively recruiting for a diverse and inclusive workforce so want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application.
We want you to feel safe and empowered to let us know if you require any adjustments to be made to your application or interview process so please speak to our recruitment team.
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