Lead DevOps Engineer

Summary

Lead DevOps Engineer in Central London responsible for managing an engineering team and delivering projects, working with Linux/Unix, public cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), and container technologies.

Salary: £30,000 - 60,000 per year

Requirements:
  • Proven experience managing a team of engineers and being responsible for delivering projects
  • Ability to switch between technical discussions with other DevOps engineers and explaining the business benefits of containers to non-technical business partners
  • Proven experience with Linux/Unix/Microsoft configuration
  • Hands-on experience with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure and/or GCP
  • Proven experience in software development or scripting languages such as Python, Go, PowerShell, Node.js, C# or equivalent
  • Solid CI/CD pipelining skills using Octopus, TeamCity, Jenkins, Azure DevOps or equivalent
Responsibilities:
  • Continuously advance and standardise client infrastructure and pipelined deployments
  • Collaborate with colleagues to write infrastructure as code that scales and takes advantage of market technologies
  • Build and run cloud infrastructure and software services primarily across AWS, Azure and GCP
  • Manage and mentor our own team of engineers
  • Automate infrastructure and avoid portal-based workflows where possible by using Terraform or other IaC tools
  • Run sprints and help prioritise the teams workload
  • Help the team solve problems and, when needed, dive into the editor of choice to fix bugs or extend a library
Technologies:
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • C#
  • CI/CD
  • Cloud
  • DevOps
  • GCP
  • Jenkins
  • Linux
  • PowerShell
  • Python
  • Teamcity
  • Terraform
  • Unix
  • NodeJS
  • Security

More:

We are a leading tech consultancy in London operating at genuine scale through alliance partnerships with industry-leading public cloud providers to deliver cutting-edge solutions to clients on a global stage. This is a permanent Lead DevOps Engineer role based onsite in Central London, Greater London, United Kingdom. The package includes a salary of 80,000 to 100,000 DOE, a 10–15% bonus, pension, private medical, and hybrid working.

last updated 35 week of 2026

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