Head of DevOps - FinTech

Client Server; London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading FinTech organization is seeking a Head of DevOps to drive their DevOps strategy and oversee the engineering team in London. In this hybrid role, you will enhance CI/CD processes, focusing on automation and reliability while leading a small team and advocating for best practices in infrastructure management. You will play a crucial role in delivering secure and scalable applications, ensuring high availability and performance.

Benefits

23 days holiday increasing to 27

6% pension contribution

Private medical/dental

Gym membership

Qualifications

• Experienced DevOps Engineer in senior/lead positions within a FinTech environment.
• Expertise with CI/CD, DevOps tooling, and IaC (Terraform).
• Strong infrastructure background in secure, scalable environments.

Responsibilities

• Oversee Infrastructure and Build Engineering Team, defining the DevOps strategy.
• Streamline CI/CD pipelines and improve monitoring and incident response.
• Provide technical leadership and grow the team of three.

Skills

CI/CD

DevOps tooling

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

Modern cloud architectures

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

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Head of DevOps London / WFH to £100k

Are you a skilled DevOps Engineer with strategic leadership experience?

You could be progressing your career in a hands-on Head of DevOps role at a highly successful FinTech whose award winning software enables customers to build high-performance web trading apps that deliver real-time information securely and reliably.

As Head of DevOps you will oversee the Infrastructure and Build Engineering Team, taking ownership of defining and implementing the company's DevOps strategy, including streamlining CI/CD pipelines, automation, observability and release processes to support reliable and scalable software delivery. There's currently a focus on transforming inefficient CI/CD pipelines using Gitlab as well as making improvements to monitoring, uptime and incident response via SRE and DevOps principles.

You lead a team of three which you'll help to grow, providing technical leadership and direction.

Location / WFH:

There's a hybrid work from home model with 1-2 days in the London, City based office per week.

About you:

• You are an experienced DevOps Engineer in senior / lead positions within a FinTech environment
• You have expertise with CI/CD, DevOps tooling, IaC (Terraform) and modern cloud based architectures
• You have a strong infrastructure background, familiar with secure, scalable infrastructure and managed services within B2B environments
• You are a strategic thinker who can deliver both immediate value and long term transformation
• You have experience of defining operational KPIs and driving continuous improvement
• You have strong leadership and stakeholder management skills, you're collaborative and pragmatic, able to push back

What's in it for you:

As a Head of DevOps you can expect to earn a highly competitive package including:

• Salary to £100k
• 23 days holiday (increasing to 27)
• Pension (6%)
• Private medical / dental
• Gym membership and much more

Apply now to find out more about this Head of DevOps (FinTech) opportunity.

At Client Server we believe in a diverse workplace that allows people to play to their strengths and continually learn. We're an equal opportunities employer whose people come from all walks of life and will never discriminate based on race, colour, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. The clients we work with share our values.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering, Finance, and Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development and Technology, Information and Media

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