Are you passionate about building resilient cloud infrastructure, championing DevOps culture, and leading high-performing teams? We鈥檙e 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鈥檚 most iconic retail brands.
As a Devops Tech Lead, you鈥檒l drive operational excellence, reliability, and scalability across our platforms. You鈥檒l guide a squad focused on cloud infrastructure, observability, incident response, and automation鈥攂lending 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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