DevOps 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