Lead DevOps Engineer - Kubernetes, AWS & CI/CD

Shortlist Recruitment; Chester; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Shortlist Recruitment is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer for a remote-first role with quarterly visits to the Chester office. You will guide a small DevOps team, set standards, and drive cloud-native designs in AWS and Kubernetes.

The position emphasizes mentorship, strong communication, and technical leadership across the business. The role focuses on replatforming efforts, automation, and reliability, offering a salary up to £80,000 plus benefits.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on Kubernetes production experience.
• Strong cloud experience with AWS and Azure.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and GitOps practices.
• Proficiency in CI/CD automation and tooling.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and day-to-day direction to a small DevOps team.
• Establish engineering standards, tooling and best practices across the team.
• Act as senior technical point of contact for stakeholders and engineering teams.
• Lead design and deployment of cloud-native infrastructure using IaC and GitOps.

Skills

DevOps leadership

Stakeholder management

Mentoring

Technical leadership

Communication

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

IaC

GitOps

CI/CD

Job description

Shortlist Recruitment is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer for a remote-first role with quarterly visits to the Chester office. You will guide a small DevOps team, set standards, and drive cloud-native designs in AWS and Kubernetes.

The position emphasizes mentorship, strong communication, and technical leadership across the business. The role focuses on replatforming efforts, automation, and reliability, offering a salary up to £80,000 plus benefits.