Head of DevOps

🚨 We’re Hiring: Head of Platform & DevOps

📍 UK Hybrid | Senior Leadership Team | High-Impact Engineering Leadership

💷 £140,000 plus package

We’re working with an ambitious UK technology business delivering mission-critical software solutions to high-profile organisations operating in highly demanding environments.

They are now looking for a Head of Platform & DevOps to lead the evolution of their cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, and software delivery capability as they scale a next-generation platform.

This is a rare opportunity to step into a strategic leadership role where you’ll shape engineering culture, modernise cloud architecture, and drive a major migration programme across infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability.

🔧 What you’ll be doing:

• Leading platform engineering and DevOps strategy across AWS environments

• Driving a large-scale migration from Azure DevOps to GitHub Enterprise

• Building scalable, secure, highly available cloud infrastructure

• Championing Infrastructure as Code, automation, and DevSecOps best practice

• Establishing modern observability frameworks using tools like Grafana, Prometheus and Datadog

• Reporting engineering and operational performance metrics directly to senior leadership

• Mentoring and growing a high-performing engineering team

💡 We’d love to speak with leaders who have:

• Strong AWS expertise in enterprise or high-availability environments

• Experience leading DevOps / Platform Engineering functions

• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD and cloud-native tooling

• A background working with JVM-based systems, microservices, and modern engineering practices

• The ability to translate technical strategy into commercial outcomes

This business is investing heavily in its technology platform and engineering capability, with reliability, scalability and operational excellence at the centre of its growth strategy.

If you’re interested in building modern engineering environments that support genuinely critical applications, we’d love to hear from you.

📩 Message me directly or apply via LinkedIn for a confidential conversation.