Lead DevOps Engineer - Site Reliability & Cloud Automation

Standard Life (previously Phoenix Group)

Greater London

Hybrid

GBP 60,000 - 80,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Private medical cover

38 days annual leave

Excellent pension

12x salary life assurance

Career breaks

Income protection

Volunteering days

Job summary

Standard Life, a retirement specialist, is hiring a Lead DevOps Engineer to join its Digital Engineering team on a hybrid basis across Birmingham, London, Telford and Edinburgh. You will drive immediate improvements to the Customer Digital Platform, strengthening Azure API platform integration, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD automation, observability and deployment safety.

You will be a hands-on technical lead collaborating with internal squads, partners and third parties to improve reliability,

Qualifications

Significant experience in lead/ senior DevOps roles with hands-on delivery.
Strong Azure experience including Azure DevOps and API platform capabilities.
Proficiency in Terraform, GitHub/GitHub Actions, and CI/CD design.

Responsibilities

Lead DevOps improvements across the Customer Digital Platform with practical outcomes.
Strengthen CI/CD pipelines, IaC, deployment safety and release readiness.
Apply SRE principles to improve availability, monitoring and incident learning.
Embed reliability and operational-readiness into engineering delivery.
Coach engineers in modern DevOps practices and AI-enabled delivery.