Lead DevOps Engineer - SC Cleared

Role Overview

We are hiring an experienced Lead DevOps Engineer to join a high-profile programme designing and building the first digital solution of its kind.

Key Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction and engineering standards for the DevOps team.
• Lead, support and mentor a team of DevOps Engineers.
• Remain hands-on with technical delivery, troubleshooting and engineering tasks when required.
• Drive improvements to DevOps practices, processes and ways of working.
• Promote team autonomy, effective collaboration and sustainable engineering practices.
• Work closely with internal and third-party engineers, Delivery Managers and technical stakeholders.
• Support the team in removing technical blockers and resolving complex issues.
• Ensure cloud infrastructure and deployment approaches are secure, scalable and maintainable.
• Provide technical leadership across a complex, multi-vendor delivery environment.
• Help establish clear ownership, responsibilities and effective working relationships across delivery partners.

Skills & Experience

• Strong experience leading DevOps teams within large, complex technology programmes.
• Proven experience working within multi-vendor delivery environments.
• Strong hands-on AWS experience, including IAM, S3, EC2, Lambda, VPCs and DynamoDB.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Strong Bash scripting skills.
• Good understanding of cloud and infrastructure security.
• Ability to set technical direction while remaining comfortable working hands-on.
• Experience improving engineering practices and ways of working within established teams.
• Strong communication, collaboration and stakeholder-management skills.
• A pragmatic leadership style with the ability to support and empower technical teams.

Desirable

• Platform Engineering experience.
• Databricks.
• Kubernetes.
• GitHub Administration.
• AWS API Gateway.
• AWS Workspaces.
• AWS OpenSearch.