Lead DevOps Engineer: Site Reliability (Hybrid)

107632 Capital Markets Operations

Telford

Hybrid

GBP 60,000 - 80,000

Full time

6 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Private medical cover
38 days annual leave
Excellent pension
12x salary life assurance
Career breaks
Volunteer days

Job summary

Standard Life is seeking a hands-on Lead DevOps Engineer to strengthen the Customer Digital Platform. You’ll drive practical improvements, Azure API platform integration, cloud infra, CI/CD automation and observability, working with internal squads, partners and third parties.

The role emphasizes deployment safety, release readiness and operational readiness, applying SRE principles to improve availability and incident learning in a hybrid work setup.

Qualifications

  • Significant experience as a DevOps Lead, Senior DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer or hands-on technical lead.
  • Strong practical Azure experience, including Azure DevOps, API Management or comparable API capabilities.
  • Hands-on expertise in Terraform, GitHub, CI/CD pipeline design and deployment automation.
  • Experience with incident management, root-cause analysis and operational readiness.

Responsibilities

  • Deliver immediate DevOps improvements across the Customer Digital Platform.
  • Improve Azure API platform integration and cloud infrastructure.
  • Strengthen CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code and automated testing.
  • Enhance deployment safety, release readiness and operational readiness for customer-facing services.
  • Embed reliability, security, performance and operational-readiness into engineering delivery.
  • Support major incidents and post-incident reviews with actionable improvements.

Skills

Lead DevOps
Azure
Terraform
GitHub Actions
CI/CD pipelines
SRE principles
Observability
Incident management
AI-enabled delivery

Tools

Azure DevOps
Terraform

Job description

Standard Life is seeking a hands-on Lead DevOps Engineer to strengthen the Customer Digital Platform. You’ll drive practical improvements, Azure API platform integration, cloud infra, CI/CD automation and observability, working with internal squads, partners and third parties.

The role emphasizes deployment safety, release readiness and operational readiness, applying SRE principles to improve availability and incident learning in a hybrid work setup.

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