Devops Tech Lead

TN United Kingdom; Shirebrook; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the UK is seeking a DevOps Tech Lead to join their Digital Engineering team. This role involves leading a high-performing squad focused on cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices, ensuring operational excellence and scalability across platforms. Candidates should have proven experience in leading DevOps teams and expertise in Azure and Terraform.

Benefits

Employee recognition programs

Performance bonuses

Wellness programs

Free gym classes

Access to mental wellness support

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading DevOps teams.
• Deep expertise in Azure cloud platforms.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure-as-Code principles.

Responsibilities

• Lead a high-performing DevOps squad responsible for cloud operations.
• Drive the design of scalable and secure cloud environments.
• Guide the team through effective incident management.

Skills

Infrastructure-as-Code

Automation

Operational Excellence

Cloud Infrastructure

DevOps Practices

Incident Management

Monitoring Tools

Education

Experience leading DevOps or SRE teams

Deep expertise in cloud platforms (preferably Azure)

Strong experience with Terraform

Practical knowledge of container orchestration

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Job description

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Are you passionate about building resilient cloud infrastructure, championing DevOps culture, and leading high-performing teams? We’re looking for a Devops Tech Lead to join our dynamic Digital Engineering team and lead the development, operations, and continuous improvement of core platform services, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps practices.

This is a unique opportunity to shape the technical foundation that powers over 50 websites and 10 mobile applications for some of the UK’s most iconic retail brands.

As a Devops Tech Lead, you’ll drive operational excellence, reliability, and scalability across our platforms. You’ll guide a squad focused on cloud infrastructure, observability, incident response, and automation—blending technical hands-on work (approximately 30% of your time) with team leadership and strategic thinking.

Key Responsibilities

Lead a high-performing DevOps/Platform squad responsible for infrastructure-as-code, observability, CI/CD, and cloud operations.

Drive the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and highly available cloud environments (primarily Azure) using Terraform and modern DevOps tools.

Spend approximately 30% of your time hands-on, contributing to IaC, automation scripts, monitoring setups, and critical system improvements.

Guide your team through effective incident management, ensuring rapid resolution, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement of system reliability.

Champion SRE best practices including error budgeting, SLAs/SLOs/SLIs, and proactive reliability engineering.

Coach and mentor engineers through pairing, reviews, and architectural discussions.

Collaborate with product and engineering stakeholders to define platform roadmaps and priorities.

Continuously evolve our CI/CD pipelines, GitHub workflows, release strategies, and operational playbooks.

Foster a DevOps culture with a strong focus on automation, security, observability, and accountability.

Ensure effective Agile ceremonies and delivery practices are followed, adapting where needed for high-performing operations-focused teams.

Job Description

Are you passionate about building resilient cloud infrastructure, championing DevOps culture, and leading high-performing teams? We’re looking for a Devops Tech Lead to join our dynamic Digital Engineering team and lead the development, operations, and continuous improvement of core platform services, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps practices.

This is a unique opportunity to shape the technical foundation that powers over 50 websites and 10 mobile applications for some of the UK’s most iconic retail brands.

As a Devops Tech Lead, you’ll drive operational excellence, reliability, and scalability across our platforms. You’ll guide a squad focused on cloud infrastructure, observability, incident response, and automation—blending technical hands-on work (approximately 30% of your time) with team leadership and strategic thinking.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a high-performing DevOps/Platform squad responsible for infrastructure-as-code, observability, CI/CD, and cloud operations.

• Drive the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and highly available cloud environments (primarily Azure) using Terraform and modern DevOps tools.

• Spend approximately 30% of your time hands-on, contributing to IaC, automation scripts, monitoring setups, and critical system improvements.

• Guide your team through effective incident management, ensuring rapid resolution, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement of system reliability.

• Champion SRE best practices including error budgeting, SLAs/SLOs/SLIs, and proactive reliability engineering.

• Coach and mentor engineers through pairing, reviews, and architectural discussions.

• Collaborate with product and engineering stakeholders to define platform roadmaps and priorities.

• Continuously evolve our CI/CD pipelines, GitHub workflows, release strategies, and operational playbooks.

• Foster a DevOps culture with a strong focus on automation, security, observability, and accountability.

• Ensure effective Agile ceremonies and delivery practices are followed, adapting where needed for high-performing operations-focused teams.

Qualifications

What We’re Looking For

• Proven experience leading DevOps or SRE teams, with a strong focus on infrastructure, automation, and operational excellence.

• Deep expertise in cloud platforms (preferably Azure), including identity, networking, cost management, and resource provisioning.

• Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code principles in production environments.

• Practical knowledge of container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, AKS).

• Proficient with CI/CD systems and GitHub Actions or similar tooling.

• Experience designing and operating distributed systems with high reliability, security, and observability.

• Working knowledge of monitoring and alerting tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, Honeycomb, or Datadog).

• Solid understanding of event-driven systems, RESTful APIs, and caching solutions like Redis.

• Effective communicator with the ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams and engage non-technical stakeholders.

Desirable Skills

• Familiarity with SRE principles, including SLAs, SLOs, and error budgets.

• Experience with incident management processes and tools like PagerDuty or Opsgenie.

• Exposure to security practices in DevOps, including secrets management and zero-trust architecture.

• Familiarity with MACH and composable architecture.

• Previous experience with cost optimization and FinOps in a cloud environment.

• Understanding of edge delivery networks, CDN configuration, and performance optimization.

• Hands-on experience with service mesh, policy management, or API gateways is a plus.

Additional Information

Along with your benefits package we also offer a wide range of perks for our colleagues:

Reward, Recognition and Opportunities

Frasers Champion- Our employees are at the heart of our business and we ensure individuals are recognised every single month for their hard work. Frasers Champion is a peer nominated scheme where 8 winners will receive double their pay for a month where they have thought without limits, owned it or been relevant.

Fearless 1000– By October 2025, we want our share price to hit £10. If that happens for 30 or more consecutive trading days, all colleagues across the business will receive a bonus! The top 1000 performers in the company will receive unprecedented bonuses, worth from £50,000 to £1million! Senior leaders across the business nominate these performers twice a year for embodying our core values and delivering exceptional performance*.

*subject to terms and conditions

Frasers Festival– an event like no other! Our Frasers Festival is our celebration for Head Office and Retail Staff across the UK and Europe – hosting a MEGA brand village, guest speakers from the world's biggest brands, evening entertainment,the ultimate Frasers Fearless Fitness Challenge and much more.

CEO Sessions –Once a quarter we offer 20 employees the opportunity to attend our “CEO Sessions” ran by our CEO and leadership team. Employees have the chance to connect, network and submit questions around specific topics such as our Sports or Luxury business.

Retail Reconnect –In order to build the planets most admired and compelling brand ecosystem, all employees must understand our business, product and customers. Each financial year, Head Office employees will gain insights by spending two days in one of our stores or the Warehouse. The goal is to learn how the work you do impacts our teams on the frontline, and to bring ideas back to the office which will improve how we work.

Employee Welfare

Frasers Fit– Our Everlast Gyms Team are on a mission to make our workforce the best, and fittest on the planet! We run free gym classes for employees as well as discounted memberships to our clubs. Frasers Fit is our wellbeing programme which aims to support and improve colleagues Physical, Financial & Mental wellbeing. The app is accessible for every employee and includes training, nutrition and lifestyle advice- all completely free.

Retail Trust– We know that its not just about physical health, mental wellness is equally important which is why all of our employees get free access and support from the Retail Trust charity. This includes a 24 hour wellbeing helpline, wellness hub, counselling and financial/legal support.

What’s next?

Our Recruitment Team will be reviewing applications and all candidates will receive a response, whether you are successful or unsuccessful. Shortlisted applicants may be asked to confirm a few key details before being booked in for a first stage interview with the Recruiter- this will be behaviourally focussed and centred around how you align with our Culture and Values. If successful we anticipate two further interview stages with the Hiring Manager/wider team which will be more technically focussed and could include a presentation/task so we can see your skills in action.