Role: DevOps Tech Lead Location: Nottinghamshire Working Arrangement: 1 Day Per Month Onsite Salary: Up to £125k (Realistic £110120k) Lets cut through it. This isnt a keep the lights on DevOps role. This is a platform-shaping, culture-driving, reliability-owning Tech Lead position. Youll be the person who ensures the engine never stalls. Powering 50 websites and 10 mobile apps, this digital ecosystem operates at serious scale. The infrastructure behind it? Thats where you come in. The Mission Were looking for a DevOps Tech Lead to own the cloud platform, drive operational excellence and build a squad that delivers infrastructure properly. Youll spend around 30% hands-on (because leaders who code earn respect), and the rest shaping strategy, mentoring engineers and pushing standards higher. This is about: Scalable, secure Azure cloud environments Rock-solid Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) Mature CI/CD pipelines & GitHub workflows Observability, incident management & reliability Building a true DevOps / SRE culture If uptime, automation and elegant infrastructure matter to you - youll feel at home here. What Youll Own Lead a high-performing DevOps / Platform squad Design and scale Azure infrastructure Drive Terraform best practice across environments Improve monitoring, alerting & system visibility Implement SRE principles (SLAs, SLOs, error budgets) Guide incident management & root cause analysis Elevate CI/CD and release strategies Embed a culture of automation, accountability and security You wont just respond to incidents, youll design systems where incidents become rare. What You Bring Proven experience leading DevOps or SRE teams Deep Azure expertise (networking, identity, cost, provisioning) Strong Terraform & IaC in production Docker, Kubernetes / AKS experience CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions or similar) Monitoring stack exposure (Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, etc.) Strong communication across tech & non-tech stakeholders Bonus points for: FinOps / cloud cost optimisation Zero-trust / secrets management Event-driven systems & distributed architecture CDN & performance optimisation knowledge You think strategically, You execute practically and you hold the bar high. The Perks (And Theyre Proper Perks) Up to £125k (sweet spot £110120k) Remote-first (1 day per month onsite) Monthly peer recognition with potential double pay for a month Staff discount across all group brands Onsite state-of-the-art gym with full shower facilities Discounted gym memberships across multiple UK locations 24/7 wellbeing support including counselling & financial/legal advice Real progression in a business that backs ambitious leaders And heres something different - once a year youll spend time on the frontline of the business to understand how your platform impacts real-world operations. That perspective shapes better engineering decisions. Why This Role? Because youre not just another DevOps engineer. Youre someone who: Wants influence. Wants ownership. Wants scale. Wants to build systems that dont wobble under pressure. This business moves fast, it rewards bold thinking and it backs leaders who step up. If youre ready to take full ownership of platform reliability and build something that genuinely operates at scale. Lets talk. We welcome diverse applicants and are dedicated to treating all applicants with dignity and respect, regardless of background.