ServiceNow DevOps Delivery Lead

adesso UK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 93,000; Full time

Job summary

adesso UK is seeking a senior ServiceNow DevOps Delivery Lead to coordinate and drive an enterprise-scale DevOps function from London. You will lead a 6-8 person delivery team, ensure platform priorities are met and align IT with business needs across client and supplier landscapes.

You will influence the DevOps operating model, promote automation, governance and service reliability while engaging senior technology leaders to deliver scalable outcomes.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading enterprise scale DevOps functions and technology delivery teams.
• Strong ServiceNow expertise spanning platform development, operations, release management and service delivery.
• A track record of leading multi disciplinary teams and coordinating delivery across multiple suppliers and stakeholders.
• Hands on experience with Agile delivery, backlog prioritisation and demand management.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD practices, release management, deployment processes and integration architectures.
• Experience establishing governance frameworks, operating models and performance management approaches in complex enterprise settings.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and facilitation skills, including experience engaging senior business and technology leaders.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and coordination across our ServiceNow DevOps function, ensuring platform objectives and priorities are delivered effectively.
• Lead and direct a team of six to eight colleagues, promoting collaboration, accountability and continuous improvement across all delivery teams.
• Guide the prioritisation and management of platform demand, including incidents, changes and enhancements, in line with business priorities.
• Oversee the end to end DevOps lifecycle, from CI/CD pipelines and release management to deployment processes and environment governance.
• Assess and enhance our DevOps operating model, embedding best practice in automation, monitoring, standardisation and service reliability.
• Establish governance forums, reporting structures and stakeholder engagement activities that support strong decision making.
• Act as a senior liaison between business stakeholders, IT teams, systems integrators and technology vendors, keeping everyone aligned on priorities, risks and outcomes.
• Define, monitor and improve delivery KPIs and operational metrics to drive continuous optimisation and scalability.

Skills

DevOps leadership

ServiceNow expertise

Stakeholder management

Agile delivery

CI/CD practices

Governance & operating models

Team leadership

Delivery coordination

Tools

ServiceNow

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Salary: £53,000 - 93,000 per year

Requirements

• Significant experience leading enterprise scale DevOps functions and technology delivery teams.
• Strong ServiceNow expertise spanning platform development, operations, release management and service delivery.
• A track record of leading multi disciplinary teams and coordinating delivery across multiple suppliers and stakeholders.
• Hands on experience with Agile delivery, backlog prioritisation and demand management.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD practices, release management, deployment processes and integration architectures.
• Experience establishing governance frameworks, operating models and performance management approaches in complex enterprise settings.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and facilitation skills, including experience engaging senior business and technology leaders.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and coordination across our ServiceNow DevOps function, ensuring platform objectives and priorities are delivered effectively.
• Lead and direct a team of six to eight colleagues, promoting collaboration, accountability and continuous improvement across all delivery teams.
• Guide the prioritisation and management of platform demand, including incidents, changes and enhancements, in line with business priorities.
• Oversee the end to end DevOps lifecycle, from CI/CD pipelines and release management to deployment processes and environment governance.
• Assess and enhance our DevOps operating model, embedding best practice in automation, monitoring, standardisation and service reliability.
• Establish governance forums, reporting structures and stakeholder engagement activities that support strong decision making.
• Act as a senior liaison between business stakeholders, IT teams, systems integrators and technology vendors, keeping everyone aligned on priorities, risks and outcomes.
• Define, monitor and improve delivery KPIs and operational metrics to drive continuous optimisation and scalability.

Technologies

• CI/CD
• DevOps
• Support
• ServiceNow

More

Our mission is to help clients achieve results with clarity, fairness and accountability, combining technical and functional IT and digital expertise to drive innovation, modernise systems and strengthen teams. We are looking for an experienced ServiceNow DevOps Delivery Lead to join us and provide leadership across a complex, enterprise scale ServiceNow environment for our client, a global provider of technology services to multinational organisations. This is a senior, hands on leadership role based in London, leading a team of 6-8 colleagues and working across client, supplier and third party teams to keep the platform stable, scalable and continuously improving. We offer the opportunity to shape a more mature ServiceNow DevOps operating model, strengthen release governance and platform stability, and drive better visibility, automation and service improvement.

last updated 36 week of 2026