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Lead DevOps Engineer
hed*** · Newcastle upon Tyne, ENG, United Kingdom
Newcastle upon Tyne, ENG, United KingdomOnsite
Remuneration
28 days of holiday plus bank holidays; five paid Impact Days annually; two wellbeing days annually, a wellbeing budget, and free counselling; learning budget and time for training and conferences; enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
Location
Newcastle upon Tyne, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Sponsors visa
Job summary
Lead cloud infrastructure for client products from design through day-to-day operations, setting platform direction and DevOps standards across digital transformation projects. Build CI/CD pipelines and manage infrastructure as code to keep environments secure, monitored, and cost effective, while advising clients on technical trade-offs and mentoring engineers. The work spans AWS, Azure, and GCP, supporting products built with TypeScript, Node.js, and Python.
Benefits
28 days of holiday plus bank holidaysFive paid Impact Days annuallyTwo wellbeing days annuallyWellbeing budgetFree counsellingLearning budget and time for training and conferencesEnhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
Qualifications
- Experience running production infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience with infrastructure as code.
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
- Experience with containers and orchestration such as Docker or ECS.
- Experience mentoring or leading engineers.
- Ability to explain technical decisions to clients or non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to identify and resolve problems and improvement opportunities independently.
- Experience across multiple cloud platforms is desirable.
- Terraform experience is desirable.
- Production Kubernetes experience is desirable.
- Consultancy or agency experience is desirable.
Responsibilities
- Own cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP from design through day-to-day operations.
- Build CI/CD pipelines that enable frequent, safe releases.
- Manage infrastructure as code to maintain secure, monitored, and cost-effective environments.
- Explain technical decisions and trade-offs to clients.
- Set DevOps standards across projects.
- Mentor and work alongside a senior DevOps engineer.
Skills
AWSAzureDockerECSGCPGitHubGitHub ActionsGitLabGitLab CIKubernetesPythonTerraformTypeScriptNode.js
Industry
Digital product consultancyRetailHealth technologyFinancial services
Company size
Around 100 employees
Relocation
No