Lead DevOps Engineer

JR United Kingdom; Bradford; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global business is seeking a hands-on Lead DevOps Engineer in Leeds. This permanent position involves building a team, driving cloud modernization, and championing DevOps practices in an agile environment, offering the chance to influence technical direction and mentor talent.

Benefits

Competitive salary up to £90k + bonus

Discretionary bonus scheme

25 days annual leave + bank holidays

Healthcare and wellbeing support

Career growth opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience leading and mentoring teams.
• Proven technical experience in cloud environments.
• Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools required.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of scalable CI/CD pipelines.
• Drive platform modernization and cloud-native implementation.
• Mentor engineers on best practices in DevOps.

Skills

Cloud-native expertise

CI/CD knowledge

Scripting

Tools

GitLab CI/CD

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Docker

Prometheus

Grafana

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Location: Leeds / Hybrid, c. once per month

Why Apply?

Fruition are partnering with a truly Global business who are expanding on their services and operations and looking to expand their DevOps team and bring in a hands-on Lead DevOps Engineer in Leeds to build and grow out a small team. This permanent opportunity sits within a high-performing technology function, driving excellence across DevOps. You'll influence technical direction, modernise infrastructure, and mentor engineering talent in a fast-paced, agile environment.

• Lead the design of scalable CI/CD pipelines
• Drive platform modernisation
• Mentor and lead a small team of engineers
• Align DevOps capabilities with the wider business
• Champion DevEx, reliability, and security
• Embed operational excellence and incident response
• Promote observability and performance optimisation
• Proven technical and some leader/mentoring experience
• Cloud-native expertise (any cloud provider is fine: GCP, AWS or Azure)
• Knowledge of GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Ansible
• Experience in Kubernetes, Docker, SRE and IaC principles
• Monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana etc
• Any scripting experience will be a bonus

What's in it for me?

• Competitive salary up to £90k + bonus
• Hybrid working (1 day onsite per month)
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Healthcare and wellbeing support
• Career growth in a global tech environment
• Opportunities to shape modern platform strategy
• Exposure to cutting-edge tools and practices
• A collaborative, agile and learning-focused culture

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.