Lead DevOps Engineer

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Lead DevOps Engineer to join our Enterprise Platforms Engineering team. The role will design, build and deliver software development infrastructure that supports internal tools and platform development. You will work closely with engineering and technology teams to enable reliable, automated application and infrastructure deployment while aligning with organisational IT, security, architecture and engineering standards.

Key responsibilities

• Architect, implement and automate CI/CD pipelines across development, staging and production environments.
• Develop and maintain DevOps engineering standards and best practices.
• Identify opportunities to improve deployment consistency, reliability and automation.
• Design and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions and automated application deployments.
• Develop tools and scripts to automate deployment and operational processes.
• Guide project teams toward solutions aligned with architecture, security and engineering principles.
• Provide technical guidance and mentor engineers across teams.
• Integrate security controls and testing into DevOps processes.
• Drive continuous improvements in application design, development and delivery.
• Improve system reliability through monitoring, alerting, automation and self‑healing capabilities.
• Apply agile practices to support consistent and transparent delivery.
• Lead technology evaluations to address gaps in build, testing, deployment and scalability.

Required profile

• Significant hands‑on experience in DevOps engineering for complex systems.
• Proven ability to design, implement and operate CI/CD and infrastructure automation solutions.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience mentoring engineers.
• Experience working with cross‑functional engineering and technology teams.

Required skills

• Linux operating systems (e.g., Ubuntu)
• Kubernetes and containerised environments
• Public cloud platforms: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform
• CI/CD pipeline creation and automation
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools
• Networking concepts: VPCs, subnets, VPNs, DNS, load balancing
• Scripting and automation tools
• Monitoring, alerting and self‑healing mechanisms