Head of DevOps

Head of Dev Ops | London (Hybrid) | Financial Services

Our client is hiring a Head of Dev Ops to take ownership of a global, enterprise-scale data platform operating in a regulated financial services environment.

This is a hands‑on technical leadership role for someone with deep Dev Ops and cloud infrastructure expertise who knows what it takes to run mission‑critical data systems reliably, securely, and ’ll lead the strategy, architecture, and day‑to‑day operational excellence of our data infrastructure across multiple regions and cloud platforms.

You’ll work closely with distributed engineering teams across London, Eastern Europe, and India
, ensuring our platforms meet the highest standards of availability, performance, and compliance.

• Own the design, deployment, and operation of enterprise data infrastructure across GCP (primary), AWS, and Oracle
• Ensure reliability, scalability, performance, and availability of all data platform services
• Set and enforce infrastructure architecture standards across environments
• Drive infrastructure‑as‑code
  , automation, and platform consistency
• Lead capacity planning, cost optimisation, and technical debt reduction

• Establish and enforce best‑in‑class Dev Ops and SRE practices
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment frameworks
• Define and manage SLAs/SLOs
  , monitoring, alerting, and observability
• Lead incident management, root‑cause analysis, and continuous improvement
• Own disaster recovery and business continuity strategies

• Lead Kafka‑based messaging infrastructure at scale
• Oversee Mongo
  
  DB and other database platforms, including performance tuning and capacity management
• Define backup, recovery, and data retention strategies
• Ensure database security, access controls, and regulatory compliance

• Lead GCP infrastructure operations across compute, storage, networking, and security
• Manage IAM, RBAC, and cloud security controls
• Implement governance and cloud cost management frameworks
• Drive cloud‑native modernisation while maintaining multi‑cloud capability
• Build and develop high‑performing infrastructure and operations teams
• Foster a culture of automation, reliability, and operational discipline
• Partner with data engineering, security, risk, and compliance teams
• Embed regulatory and governance controls directly into infrastructure design

• 10+ years in infrastructure engineering, platform operations, or Dev Ops
• Proven experience leading large‑scale Dev Ops or operational excellence initiatives
• Deep expertise in GCP (AWS/Azure experience a strong plus)
• Strong production experience with Kafka or equivalent messaging platforms
• Strong infrastructure‑as‑code background (Terraform, Ansible, Cloud Formation)
• CI/CD, containerisation, and orchestration experience (
  Docker, Kubernetes
  )
• Solid monitoring and observability experience (e.g. Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana)
• Experience operating in regulated environments
  , ideally financial services
• Google Cloud Professional certifications
• Experience with data platforms (Airflow, Spark, data warehouses)
• SRE background
• Oracle database or Oracle Cloud experience
• Strong understanding of cloud networking and security

Please apply now for immediate consideration!