Lead DevOps Engineer

Company: Global Relay
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

In this role you lead iOS DevOps across multiple teams, driving automation and CI/CD excellence to deliver high-quality features. You bridge hands-on engineering with people leadership to build a motivated team sustaining scalable, secure workflows. You collaborate with cross-functional partners to optimize on-prem and cloud-related processes, aiming to improve reliability and development speed. This position offers a chance to shape DevOps practices in a regulated, enterprise context and to mentor a growing team.

Pay / Benefits

  • competitive compensation and benefits (mentioned)
  • mentoring and coaching
  • diverse and inclusive culture
  • equal-opportunity employer
  • support for accommodations
  • opportunity for career growth

Responsibilities

  • Automation: develop and implement DevOps solutions aligned with current best practices
  • Operations: streamline tooling and infrastructure to support development teams
  • Service reliability: instrument monitoring for on-prem hardware and respond to issues
  • Technical leadership: set strategic goals for iOS DevOps focusing on scale, efficiency, and security
  • People management: 1:1 coaching, performance management, and prioritization to maximize team potential

Key requirements

  • Minimum 2 years as a team lead
  • 1–2 years with Xcode and Swift
  • Strong collaboration across cross-functional teams
  • Security awareness with Kubernetes
  • Hands-on experience with Python and Bash
  • Comfort working in a cross-geographic team
  • Understanding of CS fundamentals (threading, OOP) and software systems concepts (networks, firewalls, databases)
  • Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins or similar)
  • Infrastructure as Code tools (Ansible or Puppet)
  • Containerization/virtualization (Docker, Podman, VMware)
  • automation-first mindset
  • knowledge sharing
  • problem-solving under pressure
  • Bitbucket
  • Jenkins
  • Ansible

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Posted: September 14th, 2026