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Lead DevOps Engineer
Netcompany · Leeds, ENG, United Kingdom
Leeds, ENG, United KingdomHybrid
Remuneration
Not specified
Location
Leeds, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
Lead a platform engineering function responsible for the technical direction, delivery and reliability of a critical AWS cloud platform for a major UK client. Set the multi-year roadmap, mentor and manage engineers, and oversee infrastructure built with Terraform and Amazon EKS, CI/CD using Azure DevOps and Argo CD, and platform resilience, security, compliance and cost optimisation.
Benefits
25 days' holidayPrivate medical healthcare via VitalityPension contributionLife assuranceProfessional certification supportRetail discountsEmployee Resource Groups
Qualifications
- Deep experience leading platform or DevOps engineering teams
- Track record delivering reliable, secure cloud platforms
- Expertise in AWS infrastructure as code using Terraform, including networking, compute, data, security and edge services
- Experience operating Amazon EKS, Karpenter, Istio and GitOps-based deployments
- Experience owning CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, quality gates and rollback
- Leadership experience mentoring engineers, managing performance and designing on-call rotas
- Experience managing external SOC providers and leading FinOps initiatives
- At least one listed AWS certification: Solutions Architect – Associate, DevOps Engineer – Professional, or SysOps Administrator – Associate
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor and develop the platform engineering team, including resourcing, recruitment and performance management
- Set the platform's multi-year technical direction and roadmap across environments
- Design, build and operate AWS infrastructure as code using Terraform
- Operate container platforms including Amazon EKS, Karpenter and Istio
- Own CI/CD pipeline reliability and performance using Azure DevOps and Argo CD
- Drive platform availability, resilience, disaster recovery and incident response
- Manage external SOC providers and technical security and compliance
- Lead FinOps, budgeting and cloud cost optimisation
- Serve as the senior technical point of contact for the customer
Skills
Argo CDAWSAzureAzure DevOpsCloudWatchEKSGrafanaIstioKubernetesOpenSearchOpenTelemetryPrometheusTerraform
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – AssociateAWS Certified DevOps Engineer – ProfessionalAWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
Work schedule
On-call rota design
Industry
Technology
Relocation
No