Lead Devops Engineer

Tembo; Remote; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial technology startup in the UK is looking for a DevOps Lead to take ownership of infrastructure and drive projects across Azure and AWS environments. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience in DevOps roles, deep expertise in cloud platforms, and the ability to mentor engineering teams. This role offers the opportunity to make a real impact on homeownership solutions. A supportive, remote-first work environment is provided with a focus on innovation and diversity.

Benefits

Enhanced parental benefits

Health insurance

Extra day off for your birthday

Team trip to Mallorca

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering roles, including project leadership.
• Deep experience with Azure, AWS, and hybrid cloud environments.
• Strong proficiency in Terraform and IaC practices.
• Solid experience with CI/CD, observability tooling, and automated deployments.
• Comfortable with legacy infrastructures (.NET and Ruby).
• Experience implementing secure cloud architectures.
• Proactive approach to cost management.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the DevOps strategy across Azure and AWS.
• Lead infrastructure projects including cloud migrations and security hardening.
• Modernize legacy systems and drive IaC adoption.
• Collaborate with engineering leads to ensure robust CI/CD pipelines.
• Define and enforce best practices in DevOps.

Skills

DevOps

Infrastructure Engineering

CI/CD

Terraform

Azure

AWS

Leadership

Security-first mindset

Job description

About the company

At Tembo, we’re on a mission to make home happen — helping people buy their first home, remortgage, or move up the ladder, and helping thousands more save smarter towards homeownership.

We’re tackling one of the biggest challenges of our generation : helping people get on and move up the property ladder. Through innovative mortgage products, smart affordability schemes, and savings tools like our Lifetime ISA and HomeSaver, we help families who’ve been locked out of homeownership finally get the keys to their own place. Every day, our work directly changes lives — enabling people to buy their first home, reduce their costs, or build a brighter financial future. That sense of real-world impact is what drives everything we do, and why people love working here.

Now, we’re looking for our first Devops Lead — someone ready to take ownership of our infrastructure and help us scale into the years ahead.

We’re a mission centric organization that holds our values close :

• Find a way - representing our desire to innovate and also leave no stone unturned to help find a customer a way to get on the ladder
• It's all about the people - customers, colleagues, partners - we’re all human and without them we are nothing
• If you don’t like it change it - as a startup we’re constantly listening to every source of data and evolving, every opinion counts

We are rated 4.9* on Trustpilot with every single customer review celebrated :

https : / / uk.trustpilot.com / review / tembomoney.com

We are well funded by Goodeater Capital, Aviva, McPike Family Global Office, Ascension, Love Ventures as well as a suite of ethical backers such as Fair by Design, Barrow Cadbury, Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Big Society Capital.

You can read more about us and our mission on our website : https : / / www.tembomoney.com / our-mission

About the role

• Own and evolve the DevOps strategy across both Azure and AWS environments.
• Lead infrastructure projects including cloud migrations, cost optimizations, disaster recovery planning, and security hardening.
• Modernize legacy systems , working across inherited Azure environments with .NET and Ruby stacks.
• Drive IaC adoption , particularly Terraform, across all environments.
• Collaborate with engineering leads to ensure CI / CD pipelines are robust, scalable, and secure.
• Define and enforce DevOps best practices, helping the team move faster without compromising reliability or compliance.
• Be our go-to DevOps authority , mentoring engineers and advocating for infrastructure excellence.

About you

• 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering roles, including project leadership .
• Deep experience with Azure , AWS , and hybrid cloud environments.
• Strong proficiency in Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices.
• Solid experience with CI / CD , observability tooling, incident response, and automated deployments.
• Comfort navigating and improving legacy infrastructure and multi-language environments (.NET and Ruby).
• A security-first mindset with experience implementing secure cloud architectures.
• A proactive approach to cost management and optimization.
• Strong communication and leadership skills – you’ll be expected to drive initiatives, not just participate in them.

Why Join Tembo?

At Tembo you will do impactful work that changes people's lives. You’ll work alongside people who are motivated by the mission and desire to make home happen for an entire generation of people.

Our values flow through everything we do. You'll have the chance to make a real difference to people's lives — our TrustPilot is testament to the change we're affecting.

We offer a supportive, remote-first work environment where innovation and initiative are celebrated.

We’ve just relaunched our benefits package which includes enhanced parental benefits, health insurance, a day off for your birthday, an abroad away day (Mallorca here we come) to name just a few.

We are committed to diversity and inclusion, providing equal opportunities for all team members. Join us in our mission to deliver exceptional digital experiences and make a real difference in the technology landscape.

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