Lead DevOps Engineer (Azure) - Newport, South Wales
Posted 2 hours 39 minutes ago by Harvey Nash IT Recruitment UK
Location: Newport, South Wales (Hybrid, 1 day per week on site)
Type: Permanent
Salary: £66,000 - £78,000 depending on skills and experience
A UK public sector organisation is looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer to join its Platform Engineering function as part of a major digital transformation programme.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you'll be responsible for setting direction, leading a team of DevOps engineers, and remaining close to the technology and delivery. The successful candidate will play a key role in modernising platforms, improving engineering capability, and driving DevOps best practice across multiple teams.
What You'll Be Doing- Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and developing infrastructure as code.
- Supporting cloud deployments, troubleshooting issues, and contributing code where required.
- Leading, coaching, and line managing a team of DevOps engineers.
- Driving technical decision-making and promoting DevOps best practices across teams and services.
- Working closely with engineering, architecture, and delivery teams to modernise platforms and improve delivery capability.
- Influencing technical direction across a number of workstreams within a complex transformation environment.
About You
You'll bring substantial practical experience across cloud engineering, automation, and the software delivery life cycle, alongside a passion for developing engineers and improving ways of working.
Key experience includes:
- Strong hands-on experience with Azure, Azure DevOps, Terraform, AKS, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Solid Scripting and software engineering capability.
- Proven experience leading, mentoring, and coaching engineers.
- The ability to make an immediate impact within an established engineering function.
- At least five years' continuous UK residency, making you eligible for Security Check (SC) clearance.
- The ability to attend the Newport office on a regular basis and participate in in-person interview stages.
What's On Offer
- Salary of £66,000 - £78,000, including a staged retention and technical allowance that increases over four years.
- Excellent defined-benefit pension with a generous employer contribution.
- 25 days' annual leave rising to 30 days, plus public holidays.
- Hybrid and agile working arrangements.
- A collaborative engineering culture focused on learning, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing.
- Long-term career stability within a high-profile national transformation programme.
How to Apply
Apply via this advert with your CV and we'll be in touch if your background aligns with the requirements of the role.