Job Title: Lead DevOps Engineer

Location: Leeds / Hybrid, c. once per month

Salary: Circa £85,000 + bonus + benefits

Why Apply?

Fruition are partnering with a truly Global business who are expanding on their services and operations and looking to expand their DevOps team and bring in a hands-on Lead DevOps Engineer in Leeds to build and grow out a small team. This permanent opportunity sits within a high-performing technology function, driving excellence across DevOps. You’ll influence technical direction, modernise infrastructure, and mentor engineering talent in a fast-paced, agile environment.

Lead DevOps Engineer Responsibilities

Lead the design of scalable CI/CD pipelines

Drive platform modernisation

Manage a small team of engineers

Align DevOps capabilities with the wider business

Champion DevEx, reliability, and security

Embed operational excellence and incident response

Promote observability and performance optimisation

Lead DevOps Engineer Requirements

Proven line management experience

Cloud-native expertise (any cloud provider is fine: GCP, AWS or Azure)

Knowledge of GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Ansible

Experience in Kubernetes, Docker, SRE and IaC principles

Monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana etc

Any scripting experience will be a bonus

What’s in it for me?

Competitive salary circa £85k + bonus

Hybrid working (1 day onsite per month)

Discretionary bonus scheme

25 days annual leave + bank holidays

Healthcare and wellbeing support

Career growth in a global tech environment

Opportunities to shape modern platform strategy

Exposure to cutting-edge tools and practices

A collaborative, agile and learning-focused culture

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

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