As DevOps Lead, you will report to the Senior Manager, Corporate Data Cloud, and lead DevOps, platform automation, and operational reliability across our Data Platform services.

Key Responsibilities:

Build and Improve Platform Engineering

You will:

• Define and promote DevOps, DevSecOps, and Platform Engineering practices across the Data Platform capability.
• Develop reusable automation, CI/CD pipelines, engineering templates, and self-service tooling that help teams move faster.
• Improve platform onboarding and delivery through Infrastructure as Code, automation, and standard patterns.
• Reduce operational complexity by replacing manual processes with repeatable engineering practices.

Strengthen Reliability, Security, and Compliance

You will:

• Improve monitoring, observability, alerting, operational visibility, and service health across platform services.
• Ensure AWS services and platform components align with standards and controls defined by Central Cloud Engineering and Cyber Security teams.
• Identify, prioritise, and coordinate remediation of vulnerabilities, cloud configuration findings, compliance gaps, and operational risks.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement activities that strengthen platform resilience.
• Maintain operational documentation, controls, and evidence required for audit and compliance reviews.

Enable Faster Delivery

You will:

• Work with Architects and Engineering teams to implement approved designs using standardised tooling and deployment practices.
• Coordinate release readiness, environments, and operational support for new platform capabilities.
• Support onboarding of services and data integrations into Corporate Data Cloud.
• Use operational metrics and engineering insights to reduce deployment risk, lead time, recurring incidents, and technical debt.
• Explore AI-assisted operations, automation, and operational intelligence capabilities that improve service health and engineer productivity.

Lead and Partner

You will:

• Coach and support engineers across DevOps and Platform Engineering disciplines.
• Partner with Product Owners, Architects, Central Cloud Engineering, Cyber Security, and delivery teams to resolve dependencies and achieve shared outcomes.
• Represent Data Platforms within operational governance, cloud compliance reviews, and engineering forums.
• Communicate platform health, risks, vulnerabilities, and delivery progress clearly to stakeholders.
• Promote knowledge sharing, continuous improvement, and practical engineering standards across the team.

Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or related technology disciplines.
• Experience supporting enterprise Data, Analytics, or Cloud platforms in production environments.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automation, configuration management, and release engineering practices.
• Practical experience with AWS and modern Data Platform technologies such as Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, or equivalent cloud-based solutions.
• Experience implementing cloud engineering standards and remediating security vulnerabilities, compliance findings, and operational risks.
• Knowledge of monitoring, observability, incident management, problem management, and service reliability practices.
• Understanding of cloud security controls, operational risk management, audit requirements, and IT service management principles.
• Experience leading technical work and collaborating across matrixed delivery teams.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Experience working within regulated or operationally complex environments is advantageous.
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

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