Lead AWS DevOps Engineer - Managed Services
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Overview
In this role you will lead the architectural direction and technical strategy for clients and Hippo’s Managed Services. You’ll act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, shaping standards and driving transformation across multiple projects. You will mentor DevOps engineers, guide complex engagements, and contribute to pre-sales and thought leadership. This is a high-impact, consultative leadership position in a collaborative, agile environment with a focus on secure, scalable, well-engineered platforms.
Pay / Benefits- Contributory Pension Scheme
- 25 Days Holiday + UK Public Holidays
- Perkbox discounts
- Critical illness cover
- Life assurance and death in service cover
- Volunteer days
- Define and evangelise architectural vision, standards, and best practices across Hippo’s delivery practice
- Serve as trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders, guiding long-term technical strategy
- Lead complex technical engagements with oversight and quality assurance for automated infrastructure
- Mentor and coach DevOps and senior engineers to grow skills and impact
- Drive pre-sales and bid responses, shaping new opportunities
- Contribute to thought leadership through public speaking, writing, and community engagement
- Make key architectural decisions affecting multiple projects/clients
- Lead recruitment for engineers to strengthen the Managed Services/DevOps community
- Senior-level DevOps/Technical Architect experience with a track record of large-scale digital transformations
- Expert proficiency with AWS and multi-cloud architecture design
- Python proficiency for automation and scripting
- Hands-on Kubernetes (EKS) and advanced CI/CD tooling
- Infrastructure-as-Code expertise with Terraform
- Ability to influence C-suite stakeholders and communicate effectively
- Security, networking, and governance knowledge in cloud contexts
- Consultancy experience including pre-sales and business growth
- Mastery of Agile methods across distributed teams
- Eligible for SC Clearance
- leadership
- exceptional communication with executives
- mentoring and coaching
- AWS cloud services
- multi-cloud architecture
- Python automation