ShortList Recruitment Limited - Lead DevOps Engineer

DevOps Developer is needed in Chester, United States.

Client: ShortList Recruitment Limited

Location: Chester, CHW, gb

Contract: Freelance

Job Description

ShortList Recruitment has an exciting opportunity for a Lead DevOps Engineer to join a market-leading technology firm on a remote-first basis. Our client is looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer to provide technical leadership within a small, experienced DevOps team. This hands-on role involves bringing the team together, providing technical direction, mentoring engineers, and acting as the key point of contact for DevOps across the wider business. You will play a crucial role in a major replatforming program, rebuilding a core CRM platform in AWS and Kubernetes, while also supporting the infrastructure behind innovative AI products.

Requirements

• Significant hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production environments
• Strong production experience with at least two major cloud providers, particularly AWS and Azure
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code and GitOps practices
• Proficiency with CI/CD automation and pipeline tooling
• Experience designing and operating resilient, cloud-native platforms
• Experience mentoring engineers or providing technical leadership within a DevOps, Platform or SRE environment
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to represent a technical team across the wider business

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

Additional Information

The Lead DevOps Engineer role is remote-first, with quarterly visits to the Chester-based office. The role offers a salary of up to £80,000 plus great benefits.

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