DevOps Manager

Cloud/DevOps Manager

📍 Richmond, London (Hybrid – typically 2 days per week), 9 day a working week a fortnight

💰 £90,000 – £105,000 + discretionary bonus

A fast-growing pet nutrition and technology business is looking for a Cloud Infrastructure Manager to help shape the next phase of its cloud platform and infrastructure capability.

Over the past 18 months, the technology leadership team has stabilised a complex infrastructure environment with the support of external partners. With those foundations in place, the focus is now on building a stronger internal DevOps and cloud capability and improving the way infrastructure supports engineering teams.

This role combines technical leadership with hands-on engineering, leading a small DevOps team while helping guide the architecture, reliability, and security of the organisation’s AWS environment.

You’ll work closely with software engineering teams to improve platform architecture, infrastructure practices, and cloud reliability, while helping define a clear path forward for the infrastructure function.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and support a small DevOps / infrastructure team
• Improve cloud architecture, resilience, and operational reliability
• Drive best practices around Infrastructure as Code and automation
• Partner with engineering teams to improve ways of working across platform and development
• Support the organisation’s security maturity journey, including Cyber Essentials+ and longer-term ISO27001 goals
• Help shape the future roadmap for cloud infrastructure as the business continues to scale

Tech environment

• AWS
• Terraform
• CI/CD and cloud-native infrastructure

The team are looking for a strong cloud generalist with experience across DevOps and platform engineering. This role would suit a Senior or Lead DevOps / Platform Engineer looking to move into management, or someone already leading a small team who still enjoys being technically involved.

Package & benefits

• £90k–£105k salary + discretionary bonus
• Hybrid working (typically 2 days per week in Richmond)
• 9-day fortnight – the company closes every other Friday
• Private health insurance
• Work abroad up to 2 weeks every 6 months
• Enhanced parental leave and learning & development support