DevOps Lead

Location: London (Hybrid - 3 days on-site)Day Rate: c£700 per day Start Date: ASAP

As DevOps Lead, you will take ownership of shared DevOps practices, ensuring infrastructure, automation, and operational standards are consistently applied. This is a hands-on leadership role focused on implementation, stability, and preparing the foundation for a centralised DevOps function.

• Lead & Coordinate: Drive day-to-day DevOps execution across squads, ensuring consistent CI/CD, monitoring, and security standards.
• Implement & Optimise: Deploy automation and infrastructure templates defined by architecture and platform teams.
• Maintain Stability: Ensure operational health through proactive monitoring, alerting, and maintenance.
• Security & Compliance: Support vulnerability remediation, patching cadence, and gold-image alignment with Cyber and GCS teams.
• Cost Efficiency: Drive tagging discipline, environment optimisation, and governance adherence.
• Standardise Practices: Develop and maintain the DevOps playbook, templates, and documentation standards.
• Influence & Engage: Collaborate with central BA DevOps, challenge requirements where needed, and navigate priorities tactfully.
• Future-Proof: Lay the groundwork for a centralised DevOps function.

• Technical Expertise:

  • Strong hands-on experience with AWS (IAM, networking, ECS/EKS, Terraform, CloudFormation).
  • Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code, automation, and container orchestration.
  • Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar).
  • Experience with monitoring tools (Datadog, CloudWatch, etc.).
  • Proven track record in environment hardening, patching, and compliance frameworks.

• Leadership & Collaboration:

  • Ability to coordinate engineers across multiple squads and enforce consistent standards.
  • Clear, diplomatic communication when influencing central or external teams.
  • Balance leadership with hands-on delivery and operate with accountability and discipline.

• Experience:

  • 13-15 years in DevOps or platform engineering within multi-squad or large-scale AWS environments.
  • Prior exposure to complex delivery organisations.

• Hybrid working model with a vibrant London office.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.