Head Of Devops And Platform Automation

VIQU Limited; City Of London; Híbrido; GBP 72.000 - 120.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

VIQU Limited, partnering with a leading financial services organisation, seeks a Head of DevOps and Platform Automation to own the DevOps and tooling function across multi-tenant cloud environments.

You will lead distributed UK and offshore teams, drive DevOps maturity, CI/CD excellence, and automate platform services while ensuring governance, security and cost efficiency in a complex enterprise landscape.

Formación

• 10+ years in DevOps, infrastructure, or tooling leadership.
• Experience leading enterprise-scale DevOps or SRE teams.
• Expertise in CI/CD tooling and IaC.
• Strong Microsoft Azure cloud experience, ideally hybrid/multi-cloud.
• Proven track record of driving DevOps maturity and cost efficiency.
• Excellent stakeholder management and leadership in fast-paced environments.

Responsabilidades

• Own and evolve the DevOps, CI/CD and automation strategy and roadmap across tooling and platform services.
• Lead and develop a distributed DevOps and tooling team across UK and offshore locations.
• Oversee platform lifecycle management including availability, resilience, security and compliance.
• Drive standardisation and optimisation of CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks.
• Manage BAU performance, incident escalation and service reliability for critical platforms.
• Oversee delivery within major transformation programmes and cloud initiatives.
• Act as a key interface across IT, business and architecture to align tooling with objectives.
• Manage vendors, SLA governance and FinOps for spend efficiency.
• Ensure governance, security and regulatory standards across operations.

Conocimientos

DevOps leadership

CI/CD

SRE

Cloud architecture

Stakeholder management

FinOps

Automation

Herramientas

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Terraform

Azure

Descripción del empleo

Head of DevOps and Platform Automation

London - Hybrid

£100,000 - £120,000 + Bonus

VIQU are partnering with a leading financial services organisation undergoing a major transformation across its cloud and infrastructure landscape. They are seeking a Head of DevOps and Platform Automation to take ownership of a critical DevOps and tooling function that underpins the delivery of strategic change across a complex, enterprise-scale environment. This is a high-impact leadership role, responsible for driving DevOps maturity, CI/CD excellence, and automation strategy across multi-tenant cloud platforms, while leading geographically dispersed teams and ensuring robust operational performance, governance, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities of the Head of DevOps and Platform Automation:

• Own and evolve the DevOps, CI/CD and automation strategy and roadmap across tooling and platform services
• Lead and develop a distributed DevOps and tooling team across UK and offshore locations, driving a culture of continuous improvement and engineering excellence
• Oversee end-to-end platform lifecycle management ensuring availability, resilience, security and compliance across all tooling environments
• Drive standardisation and optimisation of CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks and DevOps practices across the organisation
• Manage BAU performance, incident escalation and service reliability for critical DevOps platforms, including P1 management and stakeholder communications
• Oversee delivery of DevOps and tooling elements within major transformation programmes and cloud initiatives
• Act as a key stakeholder interface across IT, business and architecture teams to align tooling capability with strategic objectives
• Manage third-party vendors and suppliers, ensuring SLA adherence, performance optimisation and cost effectiveness
• Own budget management, resource planning and FinOps activity to ensure efficient platform and supplier spend
• Ensure compliance with governance, security and regulatory standards across all DevOps and tooling operations
• Champion automation, innovation and continuous improvement, including adoption of modern cloud and emerging technologies

Key Experience Required of the Head of DevOps and Platform Automation:

• Extensive experience (10+ years) within DevOps, infrastructure, platform engineering or tooling/automation leadership roles
• Strong background leading enterprise-scale DevOps or SRE teams within complex, global or regulated environments
• Deep expertise in CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, GitLab CI and strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar)
• Strong experience working within Microsoft Azure cloud environments, ideally across hybrid or multi-cloud estates
• Proven track record of leading cloud-native engineering teams and driving DevOps maturity at scale
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior technical and business stakeholders
• Strong vendor and supplier management experience, including SLA governance and performance management
• Experience managing operational budgets and driving cost optimisation, including FinOps practices
• Strong understanding of ITIL, service management, governance and secure cloud operating models
• Demonstrable experience working in matrix organisations and leading virtual, geographically dispersed teams
• Strong communication, leadership and decision-making skills in fast-paced, ambiguous environments
• Relevant cloud, DevOps or ITIL certifications highly desirable