Lead DevOps Engineer

JR United Kingdom; Stoke-on-Trent; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology-driven organisation seeks a talented Lead DevOps Engineer to join their collaborative team. This role involves providing hands-on leadership while guiding DevOps practices within a scalable, highly available cloud environment. The successful candidate will enhance infrastructure strategies and support rapid deployment cycles across a global-reaching SaaS platform.

Benefits

Private health coverage including critical illness and life insurance

Wellness support including gym discounts

Long-term incentive scheme participation

Qualifications

• Experience leading DevOps efforts or teams in a dynamic setting.
• Strong expertise in AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, RDS).
• Pragmatic approach to balancing technical and operational priorities.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to the DevOps function while engaging in hands-on engineering.
• Manage and optimise AWS-based infrastructure with tools like Kubernetes and Terraform.
• Oversee CI/CD processes to support multiple daily releases.

Skills

Leadership

AWS services

Terraform

Kubernetes

Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)

Job description

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Enso Recruitment is partnering with a leading technology-driven organisation to find a talented Lead DevOps Engineer. This role offers the chance to take a hands-on leadership position within a collaborative team responsible for maintaining and evolving a highly available, scalable cloud environment.

The successful candidate will play a key role in guiding DevOps practices, supporting rapid deployment cycles, and driving infrastructure improvements across a growing SaaS platform with a global reach.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to the DevOps function while remaining actively involved in hands-on engineering work.
• Manage and optimise AWS-based infrastructure with tools like Kubernetes and Terraform.
• Partner with development, product, and security teams to deliver robust, secure, and scalable systems.
• Oversee CI/CD processes and support multiple daily releases with minimal disruption.
• Shape infrastructure strategy, influencing best practices and architectural decisions.

What You’ll Bring

• Experience leading DevOps efforts or teams in a dynamic, fast-paced setting.
• Strong expertise in AWS services including networking, IAM, EC2, RDS, S3, and container orchestration with EKS.
• Demonstrated ability to manage production systems, resolve incidents, and implement effective change controls.
• A pragmatic approach to balancing technical, security, and operational priorities.

Bonus Skills (Nice to Have)

• Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code using Terraform.
• Experience setting up and managing CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with observability tools and techniques.
• Fully remote role or hybrid option from Belfast.
• Long-term incentive scheme participation.
• Private health coverage, including critical illness and life insurance.
• Wellness support including gym discounts and other benefits.