Head of DevOps and Platform Automation

Overview

As Head of DevOps and Platform Automation, you will own the DevOps, CI/CD and automation strategy for a major transformation of multi-tenant cloud platforms. You will lead a distributed team across the UK and offshore, driving engineering excellence, reliability, and governance. You will shape platform lifecycle management, tooling standards, and cost-aware operations while partnering with IT, architecture, and business units. This role offers high impact in accelerating cloud adoption and DevOps maturity in a regulated, enterprise environment.

Pay / Benefits

• bonus

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the DevOps, CI/CD and automation roadmap across tooling and platform services
• Lead a distributed DevOps and tooling team across UK and offshore locations
• Oversee platform lifecycle management ensuring availability, resilience, security and compliance
• Standardise and optimise CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Manage BAU performance, incident escalation and service reliability for critical DevOps platforms
• Oversee delivery of DevOps and tooling elements within transformation programmes and cloud initiatives
• Act as key liaison across IT, business and architecture teams to align tooling with objectives
• Manage third-party vendors, SLAs, performance and cost effectiveness
• Own budget, resource planning and FinOps activities
• Ensure governance, security and regulatory compliance across all DevOps operations
• Champion automation and adoption of modern cloud technologies

Key requirements

• 10+ years in DevOps, infrastructure, platform engineering or tooling leadership
• Experience leading enterprise-scale DevOps/SRE teams in global or regulated environments
• Expertise in CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitLab CI) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar)
• Strong hands-on with Microsoft Azure in hybrid or multi-cloud estates
• Track record of scaling cloud-native engineering and DevOps maturity
• Excellent stakeholder management and ability to influence senior stakeholders
• Vendor and supplier management experience with SLA governance
• Experience with operational budgeting and FinOps
• Understanding of ITIL, service management, governance and secure cloud operating models
• Experience leading virtual, geographically dispersed teams
• Strong communication and leadership in fast-paced environments
• Relevant cloud, DevOps or ITIL certifications desirable

• stakeholder management
• leadership
• communication
• Jenkins
• GitLab CI
• Terraform

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