Are you passionate about building resilient cloud infrastructure, championing DevOps culture, and leading high-performing teams? We're looking for a Devops Tech Lead to join our dynamic Digital Engineering team and lead the development, operations, and continuous improvement of core platform services, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps practices. This is a unique opportunity to shape the technical foundation that powers over 50 websites and 10 mobile applications for some of the UK's most iconic retail brands. As a Devops Tech Lead, you'll drive operational excellence, reliability, and scalability across our platforms. You'll guide a squad focused on cloud infrastructure, observability, incident response, and automation-blending technical hands‑on work (approximately 30% of your time) with team leadership and strategic thinking.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead a high-performing DevOps/Platform squad responsible for infrastructure‑as‑code, observability, CI/CD, and cloud operations.
* Drive the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and highly available cloud environments (primarily Azure) using Terraform and modern DevOps tools.
* Spend approximately 30% of your time hands‑on, contributing to IaC, automation scripts, monitoring setups, and critical system improvements.
* Guide your team through effective incident management, ensuring rapid resolution, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement of system reliability.
* Champion SRE best practices including error budgeting, SLAs/SLOs/SLIs, and proactive reliability engineering.
* Coach and mentor engineers through pairing, reviews, and architectural discussions.
* Collaborate with product and engineering stakeholders to define platform roadmaps and priorities.
* Continuously evolve our CI/CD pipelines, GitHub workflows, release strategies, and operational playbooks.
* Foster a DevOps culture with a strong focus on automation, security, observability, and accountability.
* Ensure effective Agile ceremonies and delivery practices are followed, adapting where needed for high‑performing operations‑focused teams.
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