Head of DevOps and Platform Automation
Summary
A leadership role owning the DevOps, CI/CD and automation strategy across multi-tenant cloud platforms at enterprise scale. Day to day this means leading distributed DevOps/tooling teams, driving CI/CD maturity with Jenkins, GitLab CI and Terraform on Azure, and ensuring resilient, compliant, cost-optimised platforms.
As Head of DevOps and Platform Automation, you will own the DevOps, CI/CD and automation strategy for a major transformation of multi-tenant cloud platforms. You will lead a distributed team across the UK and offshore, driving engineering excellence, reliability, and governance. You will shape platform lifecycle management, tooling standards, and cost-aware operations while partnering with IT, architecture, and business units. This role offers high impact in accelerating cloud adoption and DevOps maturity in a regulated, enterprise environment.
Pay / Benefits- bonus
- Own and evolve the DevOps, CI/CD and automation roadmap across tooling and platform services
- Lead a distributed DevOps and tooling team across UK and offshore locations
- Oversee platform lifecycle management ensuring availability, resilience, security and compliance
- Standardise and optimise CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
- Manage BAU performance, incident escalation and service reliability for critical DevOps platforms
- Oversee delivery of DevOps and tooling elements within transformation programmes and cloud initiatives
- Act as key liaison across IT, business and architecture teams to align tooling with objectives
- Manage third-party vendors, SLAs, performance and cost effectiveness
- Own budget, resource planning and FinOps activities
- Ensure governance, security and regulatory compliance across all DevOps operations
- Champion automation and adoption of modern cloud technologies
- 10+ years in DevOps, infrastructure, platform engineering or tooling leadership
- Experience leading enterprise-scale DevOps/SRE teams in global or regulated environments
- Expertise in CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitLab CI) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar)
- Strong hands-on with Microsoft Azure in hybrid or multi-cloud estates
- Track record of scaling cloud-native engineering and DevOps maturity
- Excellent stakeholder management and ability to influence senior stakeholders
- Vendor and supplier management experience with SLA governance
- Experience with operational budgeting and FinOps
- Understanding of ITIL, service management, governance and secure cloud operating models
- Experience leading virtual, geographically dispersed teams
- Strong communication and leadership in fast-paced environments
- Relevant cloud, DevOps or ITIL certifications desirable
- stakeholder management
- leadership
- communication
- Jenkins
- GitLab CI
- Terraform
