Role: DevOps Tech Lead

Location: Nottinghamshire

Working Arrangement: 1 Day Per Month Onsite

Salary: Up to £125k (Realistic £110120k)

Lets cut through it. This isnt a keep the lights on DevOps role.

This is a platform-shaping, culture-driving, reliability-owning Tech Lead position. Youll 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? Thats where you come in.

The Mission

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

Youll 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

Rock-solid Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

Mature CI/CD pipelines & GitHub workflows

Observability, incident management & reliability

Building a true DevOps / SRE culture

If uptime, automation and elegant infrastructure matter to you - youll feel at home here.

What Youll 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 wont just respond to incidents, youll 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 Theyre Proper Perks)

Up to £125k (sweet spot £110120k)

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 heres something different - once a year youll 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 youre not just another DevOps engineer. Youre someone who:

Wants influence.

Wants ownership.

Wants scale.

Wants to build systems that dont wobble under pressure.

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

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

Lets talk.

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

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