Lead DevOps Engineer

In this role you will lead the platform engineering function for a major UK client, shaping the multi-year roadmap and ensuring reliable, secure cloud platform delivery. You will mentor engineers, own the AWS-based platform architecture and operations, and act as the senior technical contact for the customer. You will work with cross-functional teams to drive availability, security, and cost optimisation at scale, all within a collaborative, responsible digitalisation context.

• Hybrid working model with flexible hours
• 25 days’ holiday
• Private medical health care via Vitality
• Pension contribution; Life Assurance
• Professional certifications supported
• Retail discounts inclusive of lifestyle services

• Lead and develop the platform engineering team including resourcing, performance management and on-call rota design
• Own multi-environment platform direction and roadmap, including Kubernetes and service mesh upgrades
• Design, build and operate AWS infrastructure as code using Terraform; manage EKS, Karpenter, Istio; GitOps deployment
• Oversee CI/CD pipelines reliability and performance (Azure DevOps, Argo CD) with automated testing and rollback
• Ensure platform availability, resilience and disaster recovery with observability and alerting
• Manage external SOC providers and lead security, vulnerability management and compliance efforts
• Lead FinOps and cost optimisation initiatives (budgeting, tagging, right-sizing, scheduling)
• Serve as senior technical contact for the customer, coordinating with product, delivery and architecture teams on releases and capacity forecasting

• Deep experience leading platform or DevOps teams
• Strong AWS IaC expertise using Terraform across networking, compute, data, security and edge services
• Experience running modern container platforms (Amazon EKS, Karpenter, Istio); GitOps-based deployment
• Ability to own CI/CD reliability and performance (Azure DevOps, Argo CD) with automated testing and quality gates
• Proven leadership: mentoring, performance management and on-call rota design
• Experience managing external SOC providers and leading FinOps/cost optimisation initiatives
• AWS certifications: at least one of AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate

• leadership
• mentoring and people management
• stakeholder management
• Terraform; AWS infrastructure as code
• Amazon EKS; Karpenter; Istio
• GitOps deployment