DevOps Engineer

Company: Methods Consulting
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

As Lead DevOps Engineer, you will own delivery platforms and steer technical direction across teams and clients. You’ll combine hands-on engineering with leadership to shape DevOps practices in enterprise environments. You’ll work in agile delivery teams, mentoring engineers and engaging stakeholders while driving reliable, scalable CI/CD and IaC solutions. This role offers a clear impact on roadmaps, architecture decisions, and long-term improvements in the organization. You will be part of a mission-focused team that values practical problem-solving and cross-team collaboration.

Pay / Benefits

  • Autonomy to develop and grow your skills
  • Exciting project work making a societal impact
  • Strong leadership and collaborative environment
  • LinkedIn Learning and management development programme
  • Wellness and employee assistance programme
  • 25 days off per year

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and improvement of CI/CD platforms and workflows
  • Own complex technical problems from discovery through to solution
  • Define and promote engineering standards and best practice
  • Design Infrastructure as Code solutions for cloud and hybrid platforms
  • Provide technical leadership within delivery teams
  • Mentor and develop junior and mid-level engineers
  • Review designs, code and pipelines
  • Work closely with architects, product owners and stakeholders
  • Communicate trade-offs and decisions clearly
  • Contribute to roadmap planning and technical strategy

Key requirements

  • Strong experience designing and running CI/CD pipelines
  • Deep understanding of Git-based workflows
  • Terraform using HCL in production environments
  • Python for automation and tooling
  • Experience with Bash, PowerShell or Go
  • Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure or GCP (one or more)
  • Working knowledge of multi-cloud or hybrid architectures
  • Understanding of identity, networking and security in cloud platforms
  • Strong Linux experience
  • Windows Server experience
  • macOS familiarity for engineering workflows
  • DNS, TCP/IP, Load balancing, Firewalls and routing
  • VMware experience (vSphere, ESXi or similar)
  • Understanding of physical infrastructure and data centre environments
  • Proven experience leading by influence, not title
  • Ability to explain complex technical ideas clearly
  • Experience developing and mentoring engineers
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills
  • Able to balance delivery with longer-term improvement
  • collaboration
  • communication
  • mentoring
  • CI/CD
  • Git workflows
  • Terraform (HCL)

Posted: September 14th, 2026