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DevOps Team Lead - Development Platform
U.S. Bank · London, ENG, United Kingdom
London, ENG, United Kingdom95,625-112,500 GBP/yearlyOnsite
Remuneration
95,625-112,500 GBP/yearly
Location
London, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
As a DevOps Team Lead, you will manage a cross-location team while driving CI/CD modernization, infrastructure reliability, and DevOps adoption for a Java/Springboot development department. This role combines people management with hands-on proficiency in various DevOps tools and practices. You will be responsible for architecting build systems, designing scalable build infrastructure, improving team processes, and collaborating with leadership to deliver technical solutions and roadmap execution.
Benefits
Market-competitive compensation packageClearly defined salary rangesPerformance-based incentivesInclusive equitable benefitsFinancial wellbeing programsHealth & wellness programsContinuous development opportunitiesTrainingEducation supportCareer progression pathwaysEmployee recognition programs
Qualifications
- Experience managing senior individual contributors across locations
- Proven track record of onboarding and adapting to new technologies
- Strong ownership mindset with effective problem-solving capabilities
- Experience building/packaging JVM based projects with a focus on security compliance
- Hands-on Jenkins experience including shared libraries, declarative/scripted pipelines, and Job DSL
- Proficient in GitLab code hosting and CI/CD practices
- Experience with containers and container orchestration systems
- Experience with IaC and cloud computing
- Experience with an observability stack
- Experience with Java/Springboot projects
- GitOps proficiency with ArgoCD (ApplicationSets, sync policies, multi-environment promotion)
- Experience with AWS (EKS, EC2, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, S3) with production-grade reliability
- Kubernetes workload management, Helm/Helmfile chart authoring, and Docker image best practices
- Terraform module development and state management for AWS infrastructure
- Monitoring with CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK; incident investigation skills
- Experience implementing DevSecOps practices across pipelines and infrastructure
- Familiarity with container and IaC vulnerability scanning
- Proficiency with secrets management using External Secrets Operator (ESO) with AWS Secrets Manager/SSM
- Ability to document systems, runbooks, pipelines, and platform processes
Responsibilities
- Manage a cross-location team (onsite/nearshore)
- Drive CI/CD modernization, infrastructure reliability, and DevOps adoption for a Java/Springboot development department
- Combine people management with hands-on proficiency in Jenkins, ArgoCD, AWS/Kubernetes, Terraform, and DevSecOps/GitOps practices
- Architect build systems
- Design scalable build infrastructure
- Improve team processes
- Collaborate across leadership to deliver technical solutions and roadmap execution
- Perform people development, performance, knowledge, and skills management
- Optimize team ways of working
- Foster a sense of ownership and collaboration with other department teams
- Understand development team needs and design CI/CD solutions for Java/Springboot stack
- Drive observability, reliability, and software development technologies adoption in the department
- Maintain, architect, and evolve the development environment to improve efficiency and productivity
- Collaborate with operations team on technology adoption in higher environments
- Own, improve, and architect build pipelines
- Ensure maintenance of the Jenkins cluster
- Proactively coordinate with tech leadership and peers
- Break down work programs into phases and actionable work items
- Drive refinements and prioritize work
- Arbitrate project work versus ad-hoc requests
Skills
Argo CDAWSCloudWatchDockerEKSGitLabGrafanaHelmHelmfileIAMJavaJenkinsKubernetesPrometheusS3Secrets ManagerTerraformGitLab CI
Relocation
No