Job Description
Job Title: Senior DevOps Lead
Location: London, UK
Experience: 15+ Years
Role Overview
Looking for a highly accomplished Senior DevOps Lead with 15+ years of IT experience to lead enterprise-wide DevOps transformation across multi-cloud and hybrid environments.
The ideal candidate will combine strategic thinking with hands-on execution and possess exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.
Key Responsibilities
Enterprise DevOps Strategy & Governance
• Define, drive, and govern enterprise DevOps roadmap and maturity model.
• Establish DevSecOps practices aligned with compliance and audit requirements.
• Standardize CI/CD, release governance, environment strategy, and automation frameworks across business units.
• Lead cloud transformation initiatives across multi-cloud environments.
CI/CD & Azure DevOps Architecture
• Architect complex, scalable CI/CD pipeline ecosystems in Azure DevOps/Jenkins
• Define branching strategies, release workflows, artifact management, and environment promotion models.
• Implement automated testing, quality gates, security scanning, and compliance validation.
• Optimize pipeline performance, reusability, and governance at scale.
Multi-Cloud & Infrastructure Leadership
• Hands-on architecture and delivery experience across multiple CSP’s. Azure is a must.
• Design resilient, scalable, and cost-optimized hybrid cloud solutions.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM, CloudFormation).
• Lead containerization and orchestration strategy (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, monitoring, and observability frameworks.
DevOps for COTS Platforms
• Establish DevOps frameworks for enterprise COTS applications including Salesforce, Temenos, IBM enterprise suites, Snowflake etc.
• Design CI/CD automation, versioning, configuration management, and deployment pipelines for packaged systems.
• Implement environment provisioning and release orchestration strategies specific to COTS platforms.
• Integrate COTS solutions with enterprise DevSecOps toolchains.
Toolchain Expertise
Extensive hands-on experience with most or all of the following:
• Source Control: Git, GitHub, GitLab
• CI/CD: Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions
• IaC & Configuration: Terraform, ARM Templates, Ansible, CloudFormation
• Containers: Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift
• Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, Dynatrace
• Security: SAST/DAST tools, secrets management, container security
• Artifact Management: Nexus, Artifactory
Leadership & Communication
• Lead, mentor, and scale DevOps and platform engineering teams.
• Collaborate with enterprise architecture, security, infrastructure, and application teams.
• Present technical strategy and architecture to executive stakeholders.
• Drive cultural shift toward automation, CI/CD, and continuous improvement.
• Define KPIs, SLAs, and performance metrics for DevOps effectiveness.
Required Qualifications
• 15+ years of IT experience with at least 8+ years in DevOps leadership roles.
• Deep expertise in Azure DevOps/Jekins pipeline architecture and governance.
• Proven multi-cloud implementation experience.
• Demonstrated experience implementing DevOps for enterprise COTS platforms.
• Strong scripting and automation skills (PowerShell, Bash, Python).
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