DevOps Lead

Job summary

ClearRoute is seeking a Senior DevOps leader to own the end-to-end delivery pipeline and toolchain governance for an agentic development program. This role involves acting as the connective tissue between platform engineering and application delivery teams, ensuring consistent, auditable standards and operating as the central authority on CI/CD standards and GitHub-based workflow design. The successful candidate will define and enforce standards in a matrixed enterprise environment with a high degree of autonomy.

Qualifications

• Proven DevOps leadership across multiple teams in an enterprise environment, owning and enforcing delivery standards.
• Advanced GitHub Actions experience, including reusable workflow design, centralized deployment logic, and cross-repository governance at scale.
• Strong AWS DevOps experience, deploying, operating, and governing services on AWS with a security and compliance mindset.
• Demonstrable experience governing developer tooling, including policies, guardrails, and audit approaches for AI and agentic development tools.
• Experience with security and compliance integration within CI/CD pipelines, including scanning, policy enforcement, and drift detection.
• Hands-on experience with agentic editors (Claude Code, Cursor, or equivalent) in a team delivery context to govern their use and define appropriate guardrails.
• Prior experience in financial services or a regulated environment where audit trails, change control, and governance are non-negotiable.
• Background bridging platform engineering and application delivery teams, comfortable operating across both layers and translating between them.
• Familiarity with skills marketplace, API catalogue, or developer portal governance.
• Experience supporting the onboarding of large engineering cohorts onto new tooling or ways of working.

Responsibilities

• Define and own CI/CD pipeline standards across platform and application work streams, ensuring consistency, security, and repeatability at program scale.
• Design and implement governance frameworks for developer desktop AI tools, covering usage policies, guardrails, audit trails, and compliance controls.
• Integrate delivery workflows with existing GitHub-based skills marketplace and wider DevOps toolchain.
• Embed automated testing, security scanning, drift detection, and compliance checks directly into all delivery pipelines across the program.
• Proactively identify and resolve delivery bottlenecks across 10-12 engineering teams, bridging technical and organizational blockers.

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