DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer (Lead Cloud Engineer)

Salary: £75,000 + benefits

Location: Hybrid (2–3 days per week onsite)

Employment Type: Permanent

The Opportunity

We’re looking for a strong DevOps Engineer / Lead Cloud Engineer who can take ownership of our cloud platform, engineering standards, and deployment practices as we continue to scale a cloud‐native environment.

This role is ideal for someone who lives and breathes cloud engineering, infrastructure‐as‐code, automation, and DevOps culture. We are 90–95% cloud-based, with Azure as our primary platform — and AWS experience is a strong bonus.

You’ll design and maintain guardrails, build CI/CD pipelines, shape our cloud architecture, and ensure our engineering teams follow best practice across reliability, automation, security, and observability.

What You’ll Work On

• Designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines across cloud services
• Building reusable Terraform modules and infrastructure‐as‐code standards
• Implementing guardrails, policies, and cloud governance frameworks
• Supporting SRE practices: reliability, monitoring, metrics, automation
• Working across engineering teams to define and maintain cloud architecture
• Deploying and maintaining Kubernetes‐based workloads (containerisation focus)
• Improving platform resilience, availability, and scalability
• Ensuring best practice across DevOps, cloud operations, IaC, and automation
• Working closely with product, infrastructure, engineering and security teams

What We’re Looking For

Must‐Haves

• Strong experience as a DevOps Engineer / Cloud Engineer
• Deep hands‐on capability with Azure (primary environment)
• Strong experience designing/implementing CI/CD pipelines
• Excellent Infrastructure‐as‐Code experience, preferably Terraform
• Understanding of cloud architecture, patterns, and best practice
• Experience setting up guardrails, policies, governance and controls
• Containerisation experience with Kubernetes

Nice-to-Have

• Exposure to AWS
• SRE background: SLIs, SLOs, automation, observability
• Experience standardising cloud estates at scale
• Ability to influence teams and lead cloud direction

About You

You will excel in this role if you are:

• Highly technical and comfortable leading cloud engineering direction
• Passionate about DevOps culture and automation
• A strong communicator who collaborates well across multiple teams
• Happy shaping architecture as well as delivering hands-on work
• Someone who enjoys responsibility, autonomy, and helping set standards

Why Join Us?

• 90–95% cloud-native — modern environment, no legacy battles
• Clear runway to modernise, automate, and enhance the cloud platform
• Role has genuine influence across engineering and architecture
• Supportive culture with room for progression into senior/lead roles
• Great opportunity for someone stepping up into a cloud leadership space

If this sounds like you or someone you know, then please apply or send a CV to ben.thomas@lafosse.com