Lead DevOps Engineer — AWS, Terraform & AI Tooling

Myenergi Ltd; Grimsby; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free on‑site EV charging

Private Medical Insurance

Cycle to Work Scheme

25 days holiday

Job summary

myenergi is seeking a hands‑on Lead DevOps Engineer to lead our DevOps team and own the daily evolution of our cloud, observability and data platforms. You’ll shape and prioritise work, coach engineers, line‑manage the IT lead, and drive platform roadmaps with AI tooling adoption.

You’ll co‑manage the multi‑account AWS estate, improve CI/CD, maintain security controls and partner with firmware teams for hosting needs, delivering reliable, scalable infrastructure that powers our energy ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Proven senior or lead DevOps engineer on AWS.
• Line‑management or leading others experience.
• Strong Terraform and CI/CD experience (CircleCI or GitHub Actions).
• Production experience running Kubernetes (EKS) and serverless workloads.
• Hands‑on observability with OpenTelemetry and modern stack (SLOs, alerting).
• Solid Postgres administration; data pipelines or cloud data warehouse experience.
• Daily use of AI coding assistants with safe practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small team of DevOps and platform engineers; set expectations and coach.
• Line‑manage the Internal IT lead; oversee IT roadmap, priorities, budget and escalations.
• Prioritise, scope and size the DevOps programme across reliability, security and cost.
• Own on‑call rota and incident process; lead major incidents and root cause fixes.
• Partner with development and firmware teams on hosting and pipeline needs.
• Communicate roadmap, risks and outcomes; act as technical contact for AWS and vendors.
• Own the multi‑account AWS estate: environments, deployments, reliability and upgrades.
• Evolve the platform in Terraform across networking, EKS and serverless.
• Improve CI/CD (CircleCI, GitHub Actions) for safer, faster shipping; lead cost reviews.
• Operate Postgres, Redshift, Redis and OpenSearch with SLAs and backups.
• Own observability platform (ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry): logs, metrics, traces, SLOs, alerts.
• Own the data platform: Glue pipelines, Iceberg lakehouse, Redshift; support BI with clean data.
• Operate platform security controls within cybersecurity strategy; embed security in CI/CD.
• Keep IT and platform joined on identity and access controls; joiner/mover/leaver workflows.
• Lead adoption of AI tooling in DevOps with guardrails and measurable improvements.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

Kubernetes

EKS

Serverless

OpenTelemetry

Postgres

Data pipelines

Redshift

OpenSearch

Security

AI tooling

On-call

Cloud security

Tools

CircleCI

GitHub Actions

AWS

Job description

myenergi is seeking a hands‑on Lead DevOps Engineer to lead our DevOps team and own the daily evolution of our cloud, observability and data platforms. You’ll shape and prioritise work, coach engineers, line‑manage the IT lead, and drive platform roadmaps with AI tooling adoption.

You’ll co‑manage the multi‑account AWS estate, improve CI/CD, maintain security controls and partner with firmware teams for hosting needs, delivering reliable, scalable infrastructure that powers our energy ecosystem.