ShortList Recruitment Limited
Lead DevOps Engineer
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Lead DevOps Engineer
£80,000
Remote
ShortList Recruitment have an exciting opportunity for a Lead DevOps Engineer to join a market-leading technology firm on a remote-first basis.
Our client is looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer to provide technical leadership within a small, experienced DevOps team. This is a hands-on role 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 also play a key role in a major replatforming programme, rebuilding a core CRM platform in AWS and Kubernetes, alongside supporting the infrastructure behind innovative AI products.
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
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Skills:
- 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
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The Lead DevOps Engineer role is remote-first, with quarterly visits to the Chester-based office. The role is paying a salary up to £80,000 plus great benefits.
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