Lead DevOps

Jobtailor; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a senior DevOps/Platform Engineer to lead the DevOps strategy for the Sportsbook Back-End scope, drive CI/CD pipelines, and enhance automation and observability across production environments.

You will mentor engineers, coordinate with Back-End, QA, SRE/Ops, Security, and Release Management, and advance platform reliability, deployment hardening, and incident management.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or an equivalent field.
• Fluent English for daily collaboration with international teams.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Release Engineering roles.
• Expertise in CI/CD practices, Infrastructure as Code, containerization, and automation.
• Significant experience with Cloud environments and distributed platforms.
• Strong observability, monitoring, troubleshooting, and production environment management.
• Knowledge of application security concerns and deployment hardening.
• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and operational risks.
• Ability to arbitrate between standardization and product needs.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the DevOps strategy for the Sportsbook Back-End scope.
• Ensure robustness and efficiency of CI/CD pipelines.
• Design and evolve build, test, and deployment pipelines.
• Standardize practices and quality gates.
• Automate recurring tasks to improve service quality and reduce manual operations.
• Improve system observability through monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics.
• Support management of major incidents and contribute to continuous improvement of platform stability.
• Optimize rollback, traceability, and release hardening processes.
• Drive the DevOps roadmap and coordinate dependencies with Engineering teams.
• Promote best practices in DevOps, Cloud, and Run.
• Provide technical leadership to DevOps engineers and contribute to their skills development.
• Reduce friction between build, test, release, and run to improve overall delivery efficiency.
• Collaborate closely with Back-End, QA, SRE/Ops, Security, Architecture, and Release Management teams.

Skills

DevOps strategy

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

Cloud environments

Observability & monitoring

Release engineering

Automation

Production environment management

Security & deployment hardening

SRE collaboration

Education

Master’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitLab CI)

Job description

• Define and drive the DevOps strategy for the Sportsbook Back-End scope
• Ensure the robustness and efficiency of CI/CD pipelines
• Design and evolve build, test, and deployment pipelines
• Standardize practices and quality gates
• Automate recurring tasks to improve service quality and reduce manual operations
• Improve system observability through monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics
• Support management of major incidents and contribute to continuous improvement of platform stability
• Optimize rollback, traceability, and release hardening processes
• Drive the DevOps roadmap and coordinate dependencies with Engineering teams
• Promote best practices in DevOps, Cloud, and Run
• Provide technical leadership to DevOps engineers and contribute to their skills development
• Reduce friction between build, test, release, and run to improve overall delivery efficiency
• Collaborate closely with Back-End, QA, SRE/Ops, Security, Architecture, and Release Management teams

Requirements

• Master’s degree (Bac+5) in Computer Science or equivalent
• Fluent English required for daily collaboration with international teams
• Minimum 7 years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Release Engineering roles
• Strong mastery of CI/CD practices, Infrastructure as Code, containerization, and automation
• Significant experience with Cloud environments and distributed platforms
• Expertise in observability, monitoring, advanced troubleshooting, and production environment management
• Good understanding of application security concerns and deployment hardening
• Excellent knowledge of the software development lifecycle and associated operational risks
• Ability to arbitrate between technical standardization and product needs
• Experience in high-availability, critical environments is a plus
• Experience with international platforms and high-frequency deployments is a plus
• Awareness of performance and resilience challenges on high-load systems is a plus

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in defining and driving DevOps strategies, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, and enhancing system observability. Proven ability to lead technical teams, automate processes, and ensure high-quality service delivery in complex environments.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• DevOps Strategy Development
• CI/CD Pipeline Optimization
• Infrastructure as Code
• Cloud Environment Expertise
• Technical Leadership

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• CI/CD Practices
• Automation
• Containerization
• Observability
• Monitoring
• Advanced Troubleshooting
• Production Environment Management
• Application Security
• Deployment Hardening
• Software Development Lifecycle

Soft Skills

• Collaboration
• Arbitration
• Continuous Improvement

Certifications & Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science

Industry Keywords

• Platform Engineering
• Release Engineering
• High-Availability Environments
• International Platforms
• High-Frequency Deployments