Director of DevOps & Cloud Platform Strategy

linkup; Belfast; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology organisation is searching for a Director / VP of DevOps to lead the Cloud and Platform Engineering strategy for a high-availability payments platform. Responsibilities include defining long-term DevOps strategies, overseeing teams, and driving best practices in automation, CI/CD, and observability. The ideal candidate has proven leadership experience at the Director/VP level, strong cloud architecture knowledge, and excellent communication skills. Competitive salary and benefits offered, with significant influence in shaping the engineering culture.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Bonus and benefits package

High autonomy in role

Qualifications

• Proven leadership experience at Director/VP level in DevOps, SRE, Cloud or Platform Engineering.
• Strong understanding of cloud systems (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience with IaC, CI/CD, and modern deployment strategies.
• Excellent collaboration with engineering and executive teams.

Responsibilities

• Define the long-term DevOps and Cloud strategy.
• Lead and develop senior engineers and managers across teams.
• Drive automation and continuous delivery practices.
• Oversee CI/CD pipeline evolution for reliability and speed.

Skills

Leadership in DevOps

Cloud architecture knowledge

IaC and Containerisation

CI/CD tooling expertise

Strong communication skills

Job description

A global technology organisation is searching for a Director / VP of DevOps to lead the Cloud and Platform Engineering strategy for a high-availability payments platform. Responsibilities include defining long-term DevOps strategies, overseeing teams, and driving best practices in automation, CI/CD, and observability. The ideal candidate has proven leadership experience at the Director/VP level, strong cloud architecture knowledge, and excellent communication skills. Competitive salary and benefits offered, with significant influence in shaping the engineering culture.