Lead DevOps Engineer

15 Days Old

Lead DevOps Engineer
Permanent
Location: UK- Remote
Salary: £70,000 - £75,000 (+ benefits)
Skills: AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, Production SaaS experience
We are looking to recruit a Lead DevOps Engineer for a leading software company. This is a hands-on technical leadership role, ideal for someone who enjoys owning AWS infrastructure strategy while remaining close to engineering delivery.
You'll play a key role in shaping platform standards, improving reliability, embedding security best practice, and driving automation across the organisation.
This is a fully remote UK based role.
The Role
Platform Architecture & Cloud Engineering
Own AWS multi-account infrastructure architecture (secure-by-design)
Define infrastructure standards across networking, IAM, logging and disaster recovery
Lead Infrastructure-as-Code strategy (Terraform preferred)
Ensure scalability, resilience and high availability across production environments
CI/CD & Release Automation
Design and optimise CI/CD pipelines
Improve deployment reliability and reduce rollback frequency
Standardise release processes across engineering teams
Implement progressive delivery practices
Reliability & Observability
Define and track SLIs/SLOs
Enhance monitoring, alerting and incident response processes
Lead post-incident reviews and root cause analysis
Drive reduction of operational toil
Security & Compliance
Embed DevSecOps controls into pipelines
Implement least-privilege IAM models
Support ISO 27001 and compliance evidence automation
FinOps & Cost Optimisation
Partner on cloud cost optimisation strategy
Improve tagging standards and cost allocation models
Implement rightsizing and automation policies

About You
5+ years' experience in DevOps / Cloud Engineering
Strong AWS expertise (VPC, IAM, EC2, RDS, EKS, Lambda)
Proven Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform preferred)
CI/CD tooling experience (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)
Experience operating production SaaS environments
Strong observability tooling knowledge (Datadog, Prometheus, ELK etc.)
Incident management and root cause analysis experience
Experience in regulated or security-conscious environments is highly desirable

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Location:
Southwark
Salary:
£75,000
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
IT

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