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.
• 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:

• 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.