Senior DevOps Lead - CI/CD, IaC, Cloud & Mentoring

Methods Business and Digital Technology; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

LinkedIn Learning access

Private Medical Insurance

Pension Salary Exchange (employer)

Discretionary Company Bonus

Life Assurance

Worldwide Travel Insurance

25 days holiday

Job summary

Methods Business and Digital Technology in London is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to own delivery platforms and influence technical direction across teams and clients. You will combine hands‑on engineering with leadership, mentoring and stakeholder engagement in agile environments.

You will shape how DevOps is applied across enterprise environments, defining standards, leading critical CI/CD initiatives and tackling complex cloud/hybrid infrastructure challenges.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and running CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to lead by influence and mentor engineers.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Experience with cloud platforms and hybrid architectures.
• Hands-on engineering with pragmatic, outcome-focused mindset.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and improvement of CI/CD platforms and workflows.
• Own complex technical problems from discovery through to solution.
• Define engineering standards and best practices.
• Design Infrastructure as Code solutions for cloud and hybrid platforms.
• Provide technical leadership within delivery teams.
• Mentor and develop junior and mid-level engineers.
• Review designs, code and pipelines.
• Work with architects, product owners and stakeholders.
• Communicate trade-offs and decisions clearly.
• Contribute to roadmap planning and technical strategy.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Stakeholder engagement

Problem-solving

Communication

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Git workflows

Terraform

Python

Bash/PowerShell/Go

VMware / virtualization

Job description

Methods Business and Digital Technology in London is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to own delivery platforms and influence technical direction across teams and clients. You will combine hands‑on engineering with leadership, mentoring and stakeholder engagement in agile environments.

You will shape how DevOps is applied across enterprise environments, defining standards, leading critical CI/CD initiatives and tackling complex cloud/hybrid infrastructure challenges.