DevOps Lead

The Difference Engine; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

1 day work from home flexibility

Fast response within 24 hours of application

Job summary

A recruitment company is seeking an experienced DevOps Lead for a dynamic role in London. The ideal candidate will have a robust background in DevOps with leadership experience, hands-on expertise in Terraform and AWS, and a passion for mentoring teams. This full-time position offers the chance to work in a fast-paced, growing environment with flexible work options.

Qualifications

• 8-12 years in DevOps/SRE, with at least 2+ years in a leadership or mentorship role.
• Proven expertise with Terraform for IaC.
• Advanced knowledge of AWS cloud services (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, Lambda, etc.).
• Hands‑on experience with Cloudflare configuration and management.
• Strong track record building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience designing observability solutions for distributed/cloud‑native systems.
• Strong knowledge of DevSecOps practices and security‑first mindset.

Responsibilities

• Lead the DevOps function and develop best-in-class solutions.
• Mentor, lead, and grow teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Collaborate with a technically astute product team.
• Drive technical excellence across all stages of the product lifecycle.
• Grow an established mid-level team eager to learn.

Skills

DevOps/SRE experience

Leadership and mentorship

Terraform expertise

AWS cloud services

Cloudflare management

CI/CD pipelines

Observability solutions

DevSecOps practices

Team growth and mentorship

Tools

Terraform

AWS

GitHub Actions

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The Difference Engine provided pay range

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Base pay range

We have an exciting position just open for a experienced DevOps Engineer who will have a mandate to develop best in class solutions for DevOps. This green field opportunity will see you as the go to person for all things DevOps. You'll have had prior experience of working in rapid scale-up environments where you've had direct access to senior leadership, significant influence on technical strategy alongside fostering a culture of best practice and technical innovation within your teams.

Our client, profitable, well-funded and growing at 30% YoY, is looking for a Lead Engineer DevOps engineer to head up their DevOps function. Having found product / market fit, now is a key inflection point as they embark on a major re-engineering effort to position themselves for scale and to support the large backlog of clients ready to onboard to their platform.

As an established Lead DevOps specialist, you'll have experience of the following:

• 8-12 years in DevOps/SRE, with at least 2+ years in a leadership or mentorship role.
• Proven expertise with Terraform for IaC.
• Advanced knowledge of AWS cloud services (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, Lambda, etc.).
• Hands‑on experience with Cloudflare configuration and management.
• Strong track record building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred).
• Experience designing observability solutions for distributed/cloud‑native systems.
• Strong knowledge of DevSecOps practices and security‑first mindset.
• Proven ability to mentor, lead, and grow teams in fast‑paced environments.
• Collaborating effectively with a technically astute product team
• Driving technical excellence across all stages of the product lifecycle
• Coaching, mentoring and growing an established mid‑level team who are eager to learn from you
• Working in a start‑up / scale‑up environment where you enjoyed having a broad impact, close proximity to leadership and seeing first‑hand the impact of your efforts
• Seeing the value being on‑site 4 days a week has in building culture, fostering innovation, and supporting effective communication.

Any experience with Snowflake would be a real bonus for this role.

If you're an experienced DevOps Engineer excited to take the lead with greenfield development, in a rapid‑scale environment, growing a team around you, we'd love to hear from you.

Strong DevOps engineers are promised a response within 24 hours of application.

The Difference Engine is a recruitment company working on behalf of its client.

There is flexibility to work 1 day a week from home if you wish.

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Information Technology

Industries

Financial Services, Banking, and IT System Custom Software Development