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 Dev

Ops Strategy & Governance:

• Define, drive, and govern enterprise DevOps roadmap and maturity model.

• Establish Dev Sec Ops 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.

• Dev

Ops 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 Dev Sec Ops 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, Open Shift

• 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).