DevOps Engineer (Lead Cloud Engineer)
Salary: £75,000 + benefits
Location: Hybrid (2–3 days per week onsite)
Employment Type: Permanent
The Opportunity
We’re looking for a strong DevOps Engineer / Lead Cloud Engineer who can take ownership of our cloud platform, engineering standards, and deployment practices as we continue to scale a cloud‑native environment.
This role is ideal for someone who lives and breathes cloud engineering, infrastructure‑as‑code, automation, and DevOps culture. We are 90–95% cloud-based, with Azure as our primary platform — and AWS experience is a strong bonus.
You’ll design and maintain guardrails, build CI/CD pipelines, shape our cloud architecture, and ensure our engineering teams follow best practice across reliability, automation, security, and observability.
What You’ll Work On
* Designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines across cloud services
* Building reusable Terraform modules and infrastructure‑as‑code standards
* Implementing guardrails, policies, and cloud governance frameworks
* Supporting SRE practices: reliability, monitoring, metrics, automation
* Working across engineering teams to define and maintain cloud architecture
* Deploying and maintaining Kubernetes‑based workloads (containerisation focus)
* Improving platform resilience, availability, and scalability
* Ensuring best practice across DevOps, cloud operations, IaC, and automation
* Working closely with product, infrastructure, engineering and security teams
What We’re Looking For
Must‑Haves
* Strong experience as a DevOps Engineer / Cloud Engineer
* Deep hands‑on capability with Azure (primary environment)
* Strong experience designing/implementing CI/CD pipelines
* Excellent Infrastructure‑as‑Code experience, preferably Terraform
* Understanding of cloud architecture, patterns, and best practice
* Experience setting up guardrails, policies, governance and controls
* Containerisation experience with Kubernetes
Nice-to-Have
* Exposure to AWS
* SRE background: SLIs, SLOs, automation, observability
* Experience standardising cloud estates at scale
* Ability to influence teams and lead cloud direction
About You
You will excel in this role if you are:
* Highly technical and comfortable leading cloud engineering direction
* Passionate about DevOps culture and automation
* A strong communicator who collaborates well across multiple teams
* Happy shaping architecture as well as delivering hands-on work
* Someone who enjoys responsibility, autonomy, and helping set standards
Why Join Us?
* 90–95% cloud-native — modern environment, no legacy battles
* Clear runway to modernise, automate, and enhance the cloud platform
* Role has genuine influence across engineering and architecture
* Supportive culture with room for progression into senior/lead roles
* Great opportunity for someone stepping up into a cloud leadership space
If this sounds like you or someone you know, then please apply or send a CV to