DevOps Engineering Lead

Meraki Talent Ltd; Greater Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a DevOps Engineering Lead in Greater Manchester to guide a team and enhance a scalable internal platform. The ideal candidate will lead engineering productivity while managing enterprise Kubernetes environments. This hybrid role requires strategic thinking and a passion for building resilient systems.

Qualifications

• Experience leading and mentoring teams in DevOps or platform engineering.
• Proficient in CI/CD pipeline design for containerised workloads.
• Experience with enterprise Kubernetes environments.

Responsibilities

• Guide a team of engineers in delivering a large-scale internal platform.
• Drive engineering productivity and innovation.
• Enhance reliability and security of the platform.

Skills

Leading and mentoring engineering teams

Designing and optimising CI/CD pipelines

Managing enterprise Kubernetes environments

Building shared developer tools

Implementing reliability practices

Strategic thinking

Job description

DevOps Engineering Lead – North West (Hybrid – 2 days a week onsite) – £80, - £90,

Meraki Talent have partnered with one of their global financial services clients as they look to add an Engineering Lead to guide a team of 15engineerins in delivering and evolving a large-scale internal platform that supports thousands of internal users.

This role blends technical depth with strategic direction, supporting a platform that underpins enterprise-grade container orchestration and shared tooling. You'll help drive engineering productivity at scale, enabling developers, testers, release managers and SREs.

This is a role for someone who brings clarity, alignment, and long-term focus to platform evolution, reliability, and security — and who is passionate about enabling teams, driving innovation, and building resilient systems.

Experience

• Leading and mentoring engineering teams in DevOps or platform engineering environments.
• Designing and optimising CI / CD pipelines for containerised workloads at scale.
• Managing enterprise Kubernetes environments (e.g. Openshift, AWS EKS, Azure AKS, GCP GKE) with a focus on multi-tenant orchestration and high availability.
• Building shared developer tools and platforms that improve productivity across multiple teams.
• Implementing practices that enhance system reliability, such as monitoring and alerting.
• Strategic thinking to align platform evolution with long-term engineering goals.

Please note: You must have full working rights in the UK and be willing to work 2 days a week on site south of Manchester.