Lead DevOps Engineer

Hippo; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contributory pension scheme

25 days holiday plus UK public holidays

Cycle-to-work scheme

Salary sacrifice electric vehicles scheme

Job summary

A technology consultancy is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to join their team in the West of England. In this pivotal role, you will lead the development of automated systems for diverse clients and mentor engineers. The position demands proficiency in Azure, CI/CD pipeline management, and cloud security practices, with a competitive salary ranging from £60,000 to £75,000 and numerous employee benefits.

Qualifications

• Experience with Azure and DevOps tools.
• Experience in designing CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficient in Kubernetes and Docker.
• Strong Linux skills, especially RHEL and Alpine.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical deliverables and maintain client relationships.
• Drive automation and best practices within the engineering team.
• Support the team in recruitment and professional development.
• Lead on new business opportunities and technical proposals.

Skills

Expert proficiency with Azure cloud services

CI/CD pipeline design and implementation

Container management with Kubernetes

Terraform for infrastructure provisioning

Linux systems administration

Integrating testing tools in pipelines

Docker for containerization

Monitoring solutions with Prometheus and Grafana

Security best practices in cloud

Job description

Hippo City Of Bristol, England, United Kingdom

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About The Role

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About The Role

Hippo is recruiting for a Lead DevOps Engineer to join our growing consultancy. This is a pivotal role within our Engineering team, leading the charge in delivering value and driving automation for our diverse Public and Private Sector clients. You will work alongside like-minded, talented engineers, shaping robust systems and applications that our customers can rely on.

Hippo’s Lead Engineers are experts in their field. You will act as a Lead consultant providing technical expertise practices both internally and to our clients. You will help to drive the team's technical deliverables, maintain client relationships and be passionate about developing and upskilling others.

Our solutions empower our customers to build and support secure, scalable, and well-engineered systems beyond traditional boundaries. We leverage deep data insights and continuous innovation to deliver awesome platforms that allow our customers to understand and get the most from their data and digital services. The Lead DevOps Engineer will be a key architect and implementer in this mission.

Please note, we are looking for candidates who are looking for growth at this level (Lead), therefore the advertised salary band is the lower end of our full banding for this level of position, allowing for progression in the role.

Requirements Of The Role

• Act as a technical SME within the Hippo engineering community to produce and ensure user-centred software is developed based on business requirements and following best practice
• Champion Infrastructure-as-code and automation in every aspect of the solution, encouraging a platform agnostic approach;
• Be prepared to operate in a hands-on development environment, working with several different platforms, languages and frameworks;
• Champion, coach and encourage the maintenance of best practice and standards in Cloud architecture, data platform development, testing and support;
• Share knowledge gained through consultancy and product development with the wider community;
• Lead in the recruitment of other engineers, and support other consultants in their professional development;
• Ensure Hippo’s DevOps and Engineering communities contribute to Hippo’s business at a strategic level;
• Lead on new business opportunities ie. supporting with writing technical bids and proposals;
• Promote Hippo’s Data Herd externally (for example through writing Blogs, Workshops, Seminars or Conferences).
  
  

About The Candidate

At Hippo Digital we are looking for experience in the following things. We need people who are open to new technologies, quick to adapt, and quick to learn. If you don’t have one of the following please apply and we can discuss in more detail.

• Expert proficiency with Azure cloud services and Azure DevOps for seamless integration and deployment;
• Excellent experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining robust CI/CD pipelines, with significant experience in GitLab CI/CD Pipelines and debugging complex pipeline issues;
• Experience of leading the deployment and management of containerised applications using Kubernetes and Kubectl CLI functions;
• Excellent experience utilising Terraform extensively for declarative infrastructure provisioning across cloud environments;
• Possess strong Linux Administration & Use skills, particularly with RHEL and Alpine distributions, including managing GitLab Runners;
• Strong experience integrating and orchestrating testing tools such as PyTest and/or Selenium within automated pipelines to ensure code quality and reliability;
• Experience of work with Docker for containerisation and application packaging;
• Experience of implementing and managing monitoring solutions, with experience in Prometheus and Grafana for observability and alerting.
• Experience of implementing and managing robust security practices, including Encryption (TLS) and Secret Management in the Cloud;
• Experience of leveraging GitLab API for advanced automation, integration, and reporting;
• Knowledge of Security and Approval Planning processes, ensuring compliance and best practices are embedded throughout the development lifecycle;
• Apache Tomcat, SIP, RTF or Telephony experience is highly desirable.
  
  

About The Company

As well as a competitive salary which we’re transparent about from the outset, you can also expect a range of benefits:

• Contributory pension scheme (Hippo 6% with employee contributions of 2%)
• 25 days holiday plus UK public holidays
• Perkbox access for a wide range of discounts
• Critical illness cover
• Life assurance and death in service cover
• Volunteer days
• Cycle-to-work scheme for the avid cyclists
• Salary sacrifice electric vehicles scheme
• Season ticket loans
• Financial and general wellbeing sessions
• Flexible benefits scheme with options of:
• private health cover
• private dental cover
• additional company pension contributions
• additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days)
• wellbeing contribution
• charity contributions
• tree planting

Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Hippo

At Hippo, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace that works for everyone. We understand that having a diverse team unlocks our capacity for innovation, creativity and problem solving. Only by building a community of diverse perspectives, cultures and socio-economic backgrounds can we create an environment where all can contribute and thrive.

We actively encourage applications from underrepresented groups including women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent and people with disabilities. We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process that reflects our workplace culture. We are a registered Disability Confident Employer, Mindful Employer, Endometriosis Friendly Employer and a member of the Armed Forces Covenant. Hippo continually strives to remove barriers, provide accommodations and offer reasonable adjustments to ensure equity throughout our practices.

Hi, we’re Hippo.

At Hippo, we design with empathy and build for impact. We do this by combining data-informed evidence, human-centred design and software engineering. We're a digital services partner who is genuinely invested in helping our clients thrive as modern organisations. Our delivery methodology is truly agile, from concept to reality, supporting innovation and continuous improvement to achieve your desired outcomes.

We firmly believe that technology should serve humanity, not the other way around. We take a human-centred approach to everything we do because we understand that complex problems require a service design approach. This means understanding how users behave and ensuring our solutions work for them in the real world.

Our combination of data, design, and engineering delivers bespoke digital services that make a positive and meaningful impact on organisations and society. We're confident in our abilities, authentic in our approach, and passionate about what we do. If you're looking for a digital services partner that can deliver real results, let us help you build for the future and make a lasting impact.

Hippo locations

We are headquartered in Leeds and have offices across the UK in Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, London and Bristol. We're on the lookout for top talent nationwide but you need to be located within reasonable travelling distance from one of our offices which will be your contracted office location. Given the dynamic nature of a consulting business, you may be required to work on-site at a Hippo office or at an in/out of town client location for a number of days per week (client dependent) and therefore candidates will need to be open/flexible to travel. Plus, we offer a generous relocation support package of up to £8k (please ask for terms and conditions) to help make your move a smooth one.

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  Mid-Senior level

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• Employment type

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Job function

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  Consulting and Information Technology

• Industries

  Professional Services

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