Lead CI/CD & Automation Engineer: Pipelines & Testing

SKY; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sky package

Pension up to 9% employer contribution

Private healthcare

Aviva Digital GP and dental insurance

Discounts on Sky products

Share save and Tech schemes

Sky VIP rewards and experiences

Job summary

Sky is seeking a Principal CI/CD & Automation Engineer to lead design and implementation of CI/CD pipelines for streaming and web apps. You will drive automated testing strategies, build scalable Python automation, and embed quality gates within release processes.

You will mentor engineers, promote DevOps best practices, and collaborate across regions to establish a new automation function. Hybrid work with 2 days in the office weekly is expected.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, building and leading CI/CD implementations in production environments.
• Strong Linux, Python scripting and automation skills are essential.
• Experience delivering automated testing strategies for UI, API, integration and performance testing.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation and continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines across web applications.
• Define and deliver end-to-end automated testing strategies covering UI, API, integration and performance testing.
• Develop scalable automation frameworks and advanced Python-based automation solutions.
• Embed testing within CI/CD pipelines to maintain quality gates and support reliable software releases.
• Create dashboards and reporting solutions to track quality metrics, test coverage and pipeline performance.
• Analyse test and pipeline results, providing actionable insights to stakeholders to drive quality improvements.
• Partner with engineering, product and cross‑functional teams across multiple territories to promote DevOps, testing and automation best practices.
• Mentor junior engineers and play a key role in establishing and growing a new automation and quality engineering function.

Skills

Strong Linux expertise

Python scripting

CI/CD design & leadership

Testing strategy knowledge

Dashboard reporting

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Azure DevOps

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

Grafana

Kibana

Power BI

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Sky is seeking a Principal CI/CD & Automation Engineer to lead design and implementation of CI/CD pipelines for streaming and web apps. You will drive automated testing strategies, build scalable Python automation, and embed quality gates within release processes.

You will mentor engineers, promote DevOps best practices, and collaborate across regions to establish a new automation function. Hybrid work with 2 days in the office weekly is expected.