Remote Lead DevOps Engineer - AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD

Doist; Chester; On-site; GBP 72,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first role

Quarterly Chester office visits

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Lead DevOps Engineer role advertised by ShortList Recruitment for a market-leading technology firm. This remote-first position focuses on technical leadership within a distributed team, mentoring engineers and driving a major replatforming programme using AWS and Kubernetes.

You will design cloud-native infrastructure, build CI/CD pipelines, and enhance observability while aligning with business stakeholders and governance across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Hands-on DevOps leadership experience in a distributed team.
• Experience designing and operating cloud-native platforms with AWS/Azure.
• Proven ability to implement IaC and GitOps practices at scale.
• Strong CI/CD automation and pipeline tooling knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership, mentoring and day-to-day direction to a small, distributed DevOps team
• Establish consistent engineering standards, tooling and best practices across the team
• Act as a senior technical point of contact for stakeholders, development and infrastructure teams
• Lead the design and implementation of cloud-native infrastructure, automation and deployment solutions using IaC and GitOps practices
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable development teams to deploy applications quickly and reliably
• Improve monitoring, observability and incident response to enhance system reliability and resilience
• Contribute to the ongoing replatforming of services towards AWS and Kubernetes, identifying opportunities to automate, improve performance and reduce operational risk

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

Infrastructure as Code

GitOps

CI/CD

Mentoring

Technical leadership

Stakeholder management

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Lead DevOps Engineer role advertised by ShortList Recruitment for a market-leading technology firm. This remote-first position focuses on technical leadership within a distributed team, mentoring engineers and driving a major replatforming programme using AWS and Kubernetes.

You will design cloud-native infrastructure, build CI/CD pipelines, and enhance observability while aligning with business stakeholders and governance across the organisation.