Lead DevOps Engineer
About The Position
The Lead DevOps Engineer will design, implement, and support cloud, infrastructure, and DevOps platforms that enable secure, resilient, and automated service delivery. The role works closely with engineering, architecture, security, and operational teams to improve deployment, observability, platform reliability, and infrastructure automation. The role provides technical leadership for platform, DevOps, infrastructure, or software engineering work in a complex environment. It applies agile and product-centred principles to turn shared engineering needs into reusable platform capabilities, standards, and patterns. The position also supports technology modernisation and cross-cutting engineering improvements. This may include providing self-service access to approved tooling and infrastructure, improving CI/CD and release practices, strengthening observability and operational readiness, reducing duplication, improving automated testing and quality gates, and creating paved paths for secure and maintainable service delivery. This is a six-month contract role, described as hybrid working with occasional travel to London; the general information section lists the workplace type as remote. SC Clearance is essential: candidates must be willing and eligible to undergo checks. Preference may be given to candidates who meet all essential criteria and already hold active security clearance. The role falls within the scope of Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation; quoted payment rates reflect the gross daily rate and are subject to applicable taxes and statutory costs.
Requirements
- Azure DevOps, CI/CD, IaC, containerisation, and secure Azure cloud platform engineering.
- Experience building and managing self-service platforms, automation, and reusable DevOps capabilities.
- Experience with Docker and IaC.
- Experience with observability, monitoring, release management, automated testing, and quality gate implementation.
- Technical leadership across DevOps, engineering, infrastructure, and security teams.
- Agile delivery, cloud modernisation, platform governance, and DevSecOps best practices.
- Willingness and eligibility to undergo SC Clearance checks; SC Clearance is essential.
- Proven experience leading platform, DevOps, infrastructure, or software engineering work in a complex environment.
Nice To Haves
- Active security clearance; preference may be given to candidates who meet all essential criteria and hold active clearance.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of Azure-based platform services and DevOps capabilities.
- Develop and maintain self-service platform solutions, reusable engineering patterns, and automation frameworks.
- Drive CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), containerisation, observability, and automated testing best practices.
- Provide technical leadership and strategic direction across platform, DevOps, development, security, and infrastructure teams.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to identify common engineering needs and deliver scalable, secure, and maintainable platform solutions.
- Champion cloud modernisation initiatives to improve developer experience, reliability, security, and operational efficiency.
- Establish and enforce platform standards, governance, lifecycle management, and engineering best practices.
- Mentor, coach, and support engineering teams through knowledge sharing, documentation, training, and technical guidance.
- Lead platform improvements involving automation, monitoring, release management, technical debt reduction, and operational readiness.
- Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies and modern engineering practices to enhance platform capabilities and business value.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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