DevOps Tech Lead

Job Description:

Role:  DevOps Tech Lead

Location:  Nottinghamshire

Working Arrangement:  1 Day Per Month Onsite

Salary:  Up to £125k (Realistic £110–120k)

Let’s cut through it. This isn’t a “keep the lights on” DevOps role.

This is a platform-shaping, culture-driving, reliability-owning Tech Lead position. You’ll 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? That’s where you come in.

The Mission

We’re looking for a DevOps Tech Lead to own the cloud platform, drive operational excellence and build a squad that delivers infrastructure properly.

You’ll 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 and rock-solid Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Mature CI/CD pipelines & GitHub workflows, observability, incident management & reliability
• Building a true DevOps / SRE culture

What You’ll 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 won’t just respond to incidents, you’ll 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 They’re Proper Perks)

• Up to £125k (sweet spot £110–120k), 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 here’s something different - once a year you’ll 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 you’re not just another DevOps engineer.  You’re someone who:

• Wants influence and ownership.
• Wants scale and to build systems that don’t wobble under pressure.

This business moves fast, it rewards bold thinking and it backs leaders who step up.

If you’re ready to take full ownership of platform reliability and build something that genuinely operates at scale.

Let’s talk.

We welcome diverse applicants and are dedicated to treating all applicants with dignity and respect, regardless of background.