Head of DevOps

Prism Digital; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus up to 20%

Corporate benefits package

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Prism Digital seeks a Head of DevOps to lead a 40-strong DevOps function in a hybrid London setup. You will oversee Azure/CI/CD pipelines, automation leadership and governance within a regulated UK insurer environment, driving modernisation across on-site and remote teams.

You will focus on people, delivery and direction rather than pipelines, with responsibility for strategy, budget and vendor management in a growing, regulated setting.

Qualifications

• 10+ years across DevOps and tooling or automation.
• Leadership of a sizeable DevOps function across UK and India.
• DevOps delivered inside development teams, not pure infra.
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Third-party and vendor management.
• Enterprise/in-house background, not offshore outsourcer.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end DevOps function for a 40-person team on UK insur er platform.
• Set operating model, budget (£1–£1.5m) and strategic direction.
• Drive strategy, roadmap and major programme delivery.
• Oversee vendor and partner management.
• Lead UK and India teams, aligning delivery with developers.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional

People management

Delivery leadership

Stakeholder management

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Head of DevOps | Azure, Terraform, CI/CD Leadership | UK Insurer Modernising a 40-Strong DevOps Function

• Salary: £120,000 to £135,000, plus up to 20% annual bonus and a strong corporate benefits package
• Location: London, hybrid (2 to 3 days in the office), plus roughly a day a fortnight at their IT hub in Sussex

You’ll run the DevOps and automation function that keeps a UK insurer’s technology delivery moving, a team of around 40 people the business treats as its engine room. Three team leads report to you across the UK and India, looking after the DevOps engineers embedded in the development squads, while four automation product owners cover areas like observability and platform engineering. This is a leadership seat, focused on how the team is structured, deployed and grown as the business changes, so your time goes on people, delivery and direction rather than the pipelines themselves.

The company is a long-established UK insurer with thousands of staff, a few years into a serious push on DevOps and automation. Around 70% of the estate is still legacy technology, so there’s plenty to modernise. The function supports roughly 300 developers and a test team of about 70, with DevOps engineers currently deployed out to each development team to run their pipelines. It’s a regulated environment (FCA), so governance and release reliability count for as much as speed.

They want someone who has led DevOps inside an end-user organisation rather than a career built inside an offshore outsourcer, and who understands DevOps delivered alongside developers, not pure cloud or infrastructure work. If that’s you, this is a broad, senior remit at a business that’s investing properly in the area.

What They’re Looking For:

• Leadership of a sizeable DevOps function spread across the UK and offshore India
• DevOps engineering delivered inside development teams, rather than pure cloud or infrastructure DevOps
• An enterprise or in-house background, not a career built inside an offshore outsourcer
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Third-party and vendor management
• 10+ years across DevOps and tooling or automation

What You’ll Work With:

• Ansible
• Self-service environment provisioning
• PaaS and IaaS platforms
• CI/CD governance and release management
• A large legacy estate part-way through modernisation
• UK and India engineering teams plus offshore delivery partners

Nice to Haves:

• Insurance, banking or other regulated-sector experience
• ITIL or Agile certifications
• Experience in large, matrix-managed global organisations

Why Join?

You’ll own a 40-person function end to end, with a budget of around £1 to £1.5m and real say over how the operating model develops as the business modernises. The brief is wide: strategy and roadmap, day-to-day delivery, major programme work, vendor management and budget.

Head of DevOps | Azure, Terraform, CI/CD Leadership | UK Insurer Modernising a 40-Strong DevOps Function