Head of DevOps & Platform Automation — Scale & Innovation

VIQU IT Recruitment; Greater London; Híbrido; GBP 100.000 - 120.000; Jornada completa

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Descripción de la vacante

VIQU IT Recruitment seeks a Head of DevOps and Platform Automation in London, hybrid. You will own the DevOps, CI/CD and automation strategy across tooling and platform services, leading a dispersed team and ensuring platform resilience, security and cost control.

You will drive standardisation of CI/CD pipelines, oversee major transformation programmes, and partner with IT, business and architecture to deliver strategic outcomes with strong FinOps and governance practices.

Formación

• Extensive experience leading DevOps or platform automation leadership roles.
• Proven track record in enterprise-scale DevOps maturity and CI/CD excellence.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms, governance, and security considerations.

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, driving engineering excellence.
• Oversee end-to-end platform lifecycle management ensuring availability, resilience, security and compliance.
• Drive standardisation and optimisation of CI/CD pipelines and tooling practices across the organisation.
• Manage BAU performance, incident escalation and service reliability for critical DevOps platforms.
• 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 capabilities with objectives.
• Manage third-party vendors and suppliers, ensuring SLA adherence and cost effectiveness.

Conocimientos

DevOps leadership

CI/CD expertise

Automation strategy

Azure cloud

Stakeholder management

Vendor management

FinOps

ITIL

Herramientas

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Terraform

Descripción del empleo

VIQU IT Recruitment seeks a Head of DevOps and Platform Automation in London, hybrid. You will own the DevOps, CI/CD and automation strategy across tooling and platform services, leading a dispersed team and ensuring platform resilience, security and cost control.

You will drive standardisation of CI/CD pipelines, oversee major transformation programmes, and partner with IT, business and architecture to deliver strategic outcomes with strong FinOps and governance practices.