Lead DevOps Engineer

Company: Shortlist Recruitment
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Location: Chester
Job Description:

Overview

As Lead DevOps Engineer, you provide hands-on technical leadership within a small, distributed team, guiding standards, tooling and best practices. You’ll drive cloud-native infrastructure design and automation while mentoring engineers and coordinating with stakeholders. You’ll play a pivotal role in a major replatforming programme, rebuilding a core CRM on AWS and Kubernetes and supporting AI product infrastructure. This remote-first role offers strategic impact, strong collaboration, and exposure to modern cloud platforms.

Pay / Benefits

  • salary up to 80,000
  • remote-first arrangement
  • great benefits

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership and day-to-day direction to a small, distributed DevOps team
  • Establish consistent engineering standards, tooling and best practices across the team
  • Serve as senior technical point of contact for stakeholders, development and infrastructure teams
  • Lead design and implementation of cloud-native infrastructure, automation and deployment solutions using IaC and GitOps
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable rapid and reliable deployments
  • Improve monitoring, observability and incident response for reliability and resilience
  • Contribute to replatforming efforts towards AWS and Kubernetes, identifying automation and performance improvements, and reducing operational risk

Key requirements

  • Kubernetes in production environments (significant hands-on)
  • Experience with at least two major cloud providers, especially AWS and Azure
  • Strong Infrastructure as Code and GitOps practices
  • Proficiency with CI/CD automation and pipeline tooling
  • Experience designing and operating resilient, cloud-native platforms
  • Experience mentoring engineers or providing technical leadership in DevOps/Platform/SRE
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Leadership
  • Mentoring
  • Stakeholder management
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • Azure

Posted: September 14th, 2026