About The Role
Right across infrastructure, theres a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage youre at in your career, with us youll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.
Where will you be working?
As an organisation, there is little we dont do and plenty to get involved in. Our Group Support roles are vital in making sure we can help over 11,000 people deliver essential infrastructure seamlessly across water, energy, transport and telecom.
Want to come and be a part of it?
The Head of DevOps is accountable for the enterprise governance and strategic direction of CI/CD pipelines, environments, and release orchestration across M Groups software engineering capability.
This role requires someone to ensure that software can be built, tested, released and operated at scale, with consistent quality, minimal risk, and strong compliance, while avoiding the creation of a shadow DevOps or operations team.

What will you be doing?

• Set and own the enterprise DevOps approach, defining clear standards for CI/CD pipelines, environments, release practices, and automation that apply consistently across all software delivery.
• Govern and assure DevOps practices delivered by System Integrator partners and internal teams, ensuring they meet M Group expectations for quality, security, traceability, and auditability.
• Define and oversee the enterprise environment strategy, ensuring non-production environments are stable, production-like, and automated to support reliable testing and release decisions.
• Embed security, quality checks, and operational visibility into delivery as standard, reducing late-stage risk and increasing confidence in what is released to production.
• Use data and insight to give leaders a clear, honest view of delivery health, risks, and improvement opportunities, focusing on long-term fixes rather than short-term workarounds.
• Act as the recognised enterprise authority for DevOps, working across Technology, Service Operations, and partners to promote consistent, automated, and sustainable ways of working.

What youll bring:
Experience

• Senior leadership experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or CI/CD governance within complex organisations.
• Proven experience setting standards and providing assurance in SI-led or multi-supplier delivery models.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, automation, environment management, and release control at scale.
• Experience embedding security, quality, and audit requirements into delivery processes.
• Comfortable using data and evidence to challenge, influence, and support decision-making at senior levels.
• Strong relationship-building skills, with the credibility to work across technology teams and partners.

Desirable

• Experience working with SaaS platforms and integration-heavy environments.
• Background in DevOps or platform transformation programmes.
• Familiarity with Agile, scaled delivery models, or capability frameworks such as SFIA.

Whats in it for you?
We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;

• Matched or contributory pension scheme

• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year

• Employee assistance programme

• My Rewards portal, access to 1000s of retail discounts

• Life assurance

• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes

• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave

• Reward and recognition scheme

In addition, this role offers;

• Company car(or allowance)and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from

• My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme

• Private health care and health care cash plan for you(and your family)

• Discretionary bonus scheme

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

• Recommend a friend get rewarded for introducing people to us!

About us
We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. Were one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.
Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

• Wereresponsibleand go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
• Wereopenand seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
• Weretogetherand as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
• Wereambitiousand embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether youre a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.
Its an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.
Please note:Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.
For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rdparty background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.
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