Lead DevOps Engineer

NEC Software Solutions; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical Healthcare

Pension Scheme

Life Assurance

25 Days Holiday

Wellness

Retail & Discounts

Flexible Working

Continued Learning

CycleScheme

Job summary

NEC Software Solutions is seeking a senior DevOps engineer to shape and own the cloud platform across AWS and Azure. You’ll be hands-on in delivering infrastructure, pipelines and automation while mentoring engineers across distributed teams.

You’ll design secure, scalable systems, implement cost controls, and drive best practices in CI/CD, GitOps, and incident response. This role demands deep technical depth and practical leadership in production environments.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and platform engineering
• Proven ability to design secure, scalable, cost-efficient systems
• Strong background in CI/CD, GitOps, and production reliability

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership across cloud infrastructure, platform engineering and automation

Skills

AWS

Azure

Terraform

Kubernetes

Argo CD

Helm

CircleCI

GitOps

Python

Bash

CI/CD

Observability

Security controls

Tools

Terragrunt

SBOM tooling

Job description

• Reporting to the Head of DevOps, you’ll provide technical leadership across cloud infrastructure, platform engineering and automation while staying hands-on in delivery. The Head of DevOps owns the overall function and people leadership across our UK and Pune capabilities. You’ll be the senior technical leader, working alongside the engineers
• You won’t lead from the sidelines. You’ll be in the infrastructure, pipelines and code alongside the team, shaping our DevOps practice and turning good engineering principles into solutions that work in production
• You’ll design and evolve secure, scalable and cost-effective infrastructure, keeping our platforms reliable, observable and efficient. Working with engineering, security and product teams, you’ll take difficult technical challenges from design through to a stable production outcome
• If you want real technical depth with genuine leadership, where you can set direction and still know what’s happening under the hood, this is built for you
• Own our AWS and Azure infrastructure. You’ll set practical standards for security, reliability, scalability, performance, compliance, cost and resource use, working with architects, developers, security and product teams to ensure they work in the real world
• Write and maintain the Terraform that runs our infrastructure. Build reusable modules, manage state and environments, and keep documentation up to date. Use the consoles to diagnose problems, but make lasting changes through code, review and controlled deployment
• Get hands-on with our CircleCI pipelines, creating standards practical enough to be adopted, not simply written down. Embed secret detection, dependency and container scanning, software bills of materials, code-quality checks and supply-chain controls, then help teams fix the risks that matter
• Run our production Kubernetes platforms day-to-day, working directly with Argo CD, Helm and container tooling to deploy, upgrade, optimise and troubleshoot
• Keep a close eye on availability, performance and resource consumption. Improve metrics, logs, dashboards and alerts so the team can spot trouble coming. When something goes wrong, lead the technical response, root-cause analysis and preventative actions
• Ensure we can recover as effectively as we can run. Help maintain and test our backup, resilience and disaster-recovery arrangements, using Python or Bash to remove repetitive work and improve consistency
• Mentor engineers through pairing, code reviews and hands-on problem-solving. Spread knowledge, share responsibility and avoid creating reliance on a single person
• Stay curious. Run technical spikes and bring evidence when you think we should change direction. Be the practical bridge between engineering, security, product and the wider business, grounded in what you’re building and running

Benefits

• Private Medical Healthcare
• Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance
• 25 Days Holiday
• Wellness
• Retail & Lifestyle Discounts
• Flexible Working
• Continued Learning
• CycleScheme

You’ve run production cloud infrastructure in practice, with deep expertise in AWS or Azure and confidence in the other. You’re comfortable in the console and in the code, and you understand networking, identity, security controls and governanceYour Kubernetes experience is production-focused: deployments, upgrades, troubleshooting, and capacity and performance. You’ve used Helm and GitOps day-to-day, with direct Argo CD experience strongly preferredYou’ve helped engineers grow through collaboration and shared problem-solving. You lead by example and clearly explain technical risks, options and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiencesYou use Python or Bash regularly and can demonstrate tooling you’ve developed and maintained. You understand observability, incident response, root-cause analysis and production reliabilityYou’ve built reusable Terraform module catalogues, managed remote state, and supported multiple environments, accounts, or subscriptions through reviewed and controlled changesYou’ve designed CI/CD pipelines from scratch and implemented DevSecOps controls yourself, including secrets detection, dependency and container scanning, SBOM generation, and software supply-chain securityTerragruntCircleCICloud cost optimisation and FinOps practicesDesigning and testing backup, resilience and disaster-recovery solutionsWorking within a geographically distributed engineering team