Lead DevOps Engineer
Hippo Digital is recruiting for a Lead DevOps Engineer to join the Managed Services team. This client‑facing role will work across multiple platforms and cloud‑based solutions to ensure robust, scalable and high‑performing client environments.
Key Responsibilities
* Shape Hippo’s managed services capability by delivering reliable, scalable and secure platforms.
* Act as a Lead Consultant, providing strategic direction and hands‑on expertise across cloud platforms, infrastructure and service operations.
* Lead squads and contribute to the broader engineering community, driving best practices in automation, reliability and secure‑by‑design delivery.
* Participate in the on‑call rotation to provide out‑of‑hours support for critical systems.
* Coach and support the development of other Managed Service staff, ensuring high standards in cloud architecture, CI/CD, testing and platform support.
* Share knowledge with the wider technical community and help recruit additional professionals.
* Ensure strategic contributions to Hippo’s Managed Services and Engineering communities.
Qualifications
* Demonstrable experience managing production workloads on AWS.
* Strong experience with monitoring, observability and alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch or Datadog.
* Experience maintaining robust pipelines using GitLab CI/CD or GitHub Actions, including debugging complex pipeline issues.
* Experience deploying and managing containerised applications.
* Extensive experience with Terraform for infrastructure‑as‑code.
* Experience with Identity & Access Management, including enterprise platforms such as Ping Identity.
* Experience with headless CMS and content platforms such as Contentful.
* Proficiency in languages such as Python and JavaScript.
* Strong stakeholder communication skills, translating technical issues into business impact.
* Willingness to participate in an on‑call rotation.
* Located within reasonable travelling distance from one of Hippo’s UK offices (Leeds, Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, London or Bristol).
* Open to relocation support of up to £8,000.
Benefits
* Competitive salary and transparency.
* Contributory pension scheme (Hippo 6% with employee contributions of 2%).
* 25 days holiday plus UK public holidays.
* Perkbox discounts.
* Critical illness cover.
* Life assurance and death‑in‑service cover.
* Volunteer days.
* Cycle‑to‑work scheme.
* Salary‑sacrifice electric vehicle scheme.
* Season ticket loans.
* Financial and general wellbeing sessions.
* Flexible benefits scheme with options of:
o Private health cover
o Private dental cover
o Additional company pension contributions
o Additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days)
o Wellbeing contribution
o Charity contributions
o Tree planting
Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging
Hippo is committed to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace. We actively encourage applications from underrepresented groups such as women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent individuals and people with disabilities. We are a registered Disability Confident Employer, Mindful Employer, Endometriosis Friendly Employer and a member of the Armed Forces Covenant. We strive to remove barriers, provide accommodations and reasonable adjustments to ensure equity.
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