London CloudOps Lead — SRE & Automation Champion

IQVIA LLC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

IQVIA London seeks an experienced CloudOps Lead to head a team delivering mission-critical cloud services for a UK public sector client. You will drive reliability, automation, and on-call readiness while guiding architectural decisions.

The role requires 10+ years in CloudOps/DevOps/SRE, strong AWS/Linux/Python skills, and hands-on IaC/CI/CD proficiency. DBS UK security clearance eligibility and cross-functional collaboration are essential.

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience in CloudOps/DevOps/SRE.
• Strong leadership capabilities and team mentoring.
• Proficient in Python with hands-on IaC and CI/CD automation.
• Experience designing cloud architectures and managing AWS-based platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage and mentor CloudOps engineers and the on-call rota.
• Design and implement IaC solutions with Terraform and Ansible.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, and scaling of AWS resources.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infra and app deployments.
• Monitor, troubleshoot and optimise cloud services for uptime and performance.
• Develop disaster recovery and backup strategies; ensure security/governance.
• Collaborate with QA, Product and Development teams to improve reliability.
• Provide L2 support and coordinate with Service Management and DevOps.

Skills

Leadership

Cloud architecture

Linux

Python

IaC

CI/CD automation

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

AWS

Jenkins

Job description

IQVIA London seeks an experienced CloudOps Lead to head a team delivering mission-critical cloud services for a UK public sector client. You will drive reliability, automation, and on-call readiness while guiding architectural decisions.

The role requires 10+ years in CloudOps/DevOps/SRE, strong AWS/Linux/Python skills, and hands-on IaC/CI/CD proficiency. DBS UK security clearance eligibility and cross-functional collaboration are essential.