DevOps Team Leader

Elavon Inc.; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading payment solutions provider is seeking a DevOps Team Leader to drive automation and reliability across its high-volume payment platforms. This role requires strong technical leadership, hands-on experience with scripting and automation tools, and the ability to foster a high-performing team environment. You will ensure system resilience while collaborating with various technical teams, all within a fast-paced and diverse work setting.

Benefits

Health and financial security benefits

Career growth development resources

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with scripting languages.
• Expertise in monitoring tools essential for operation.
• Proven experience with automation/configuration tools.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and support applications using advanced monitoring tools.
• Drive adoption of modern DevOps practices.
• Set clear objectives and manage team performance.

Skills

Scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash)

Monitoring tools (e.g., Splunk, Datadog)

Automation/configuration tools (Jenkins, Gitlab, ArgoCD)

Technical team management

Education

Degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience

Job description

As DevOps Team Leader, you will drive automation, reliability, and scalability across Opayo's high-volume payment platforms. This role ensures seamless delivery of applications through Development, Test, and Production environments using modern Continuous Delivery practices. Operating in a 24/7, mission-critical environment, you will lead a team focused on maintaining system resilience, accelerating deployments, and enabling innovation.

Responsibilities

• Operational Excellence:
  • Maintain and support Opayo applications (Payments In/Out) using advanced monitoring tools and custom scripts.
  • Proactively detect, troubleshoot, and resolve issues to meet stringent SLAs.
• Technical Leadership:
  • Remain hands-on (approx. 80% technical) while guiding team priorities and workload.
  • Act as the primary technical escalation point and shape technology strategy.
  • Drive adoption of modern DevOps practices, including Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, and automated patching.
• Team Leadership & Development:
  • Set clear objectives, review progress, and manage performance.
  • Recruit, mentor, and upskill engineers to build a high-performing, collaborative team.
  • Foster a culture of innovation, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
• Strategic Influence:
  • Partner with Development, Infrastructure, and Security teams to align DevOps initiatives with organisational goals.
  • Champion automation and modernisation to reduce risk and accelerate delivery.

Key Metrics

• Maintain system uptime in line with SLAs.
• Ensure all releases follow defined CI/CD processes.
• Active participation in on-call rotation.

Stakeholders

• Operations, Infrastructure, Network, and Database Teams
• Agile Development Teams
• Security Team

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash).
• Expertise in monitoring tools (e.g., Splunk, Datadog).
• Proven experience with automation/configuration tools (Jenkins, Gitlab and ArgoCD).
• Background in high-availability, high-transaction production environments.
• Experience managing and developing technical teams.
• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience.

Preferred

• Knowledge of payment gateway technologies and compliance frameworks (e.g., PCI DSS).

Benefits

We offer an exciting, fast-paced and diverse working environment with employees of many different nationalities. We provide benefits to help you protect your health and financial security; and give you peace of mind. We also invest in your career growth with development resources that give you the opportunity to stretch and shine.