DevOps Team Lead - Development Platform

Location: Greater London

## Dev Ops Team Lead - Development Platform Apply locations:
London, United Kingdom time type:
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At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions, enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed in the right ways, all more confidently and more often—that’s what we call the courage to thrive.
We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

As a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bank, Elavon is committed to building the platforms and ecosystems that help over 1.5 million customers around the world to achieve their financial goals—no matter what they need. From transaction processing to customer service, to driving innovation and launching new products, we’re building a range of tailored payment solutions powered by the latest technology.

As part of our team, you can explore what motivates and energizes your career goals: partnering with our customers, our communities, and each other.

We actively uphold transparent and fair hiring practices that support individual opportunity, inclusive culture, and career mobility across all levels of our organisation.

We offer meaningful opportunities for growth, a culture of inclusion, and a strong commitment to transparency and integrity in everything we do.##
** Job Description
**** Dev Ops Team Lead - Development Platform
** As a Dev Ops Team Lead, you will manage a cross-location team while driving CI/CD modernization, infrastructure reliability, and Dev Ops adoption for a Java/Springboot development department. You'll combine people management with hands-on proficiency in Jenkins, ArgoCD, AWS/Kubernetes, Terraform, and Dev Sec Ops /Git Ops practices. You'll be architecting build systems, designing scalable build infrastructure, improving team processes, and collaborating across leadership to deliver technical solutions and roadmap execution.
** Main duties
*** Line Management of a cross location team (onsite / nearshore)
* People development, performance, knowledge and skills management
* Optimizing team ways of working
* Fostering a sense of ownership and collaboration with other department teams
* Understanding development teams needs and designing CI/CD solutions (Java/Springboot stack)
* Driving observability, reliability and software development technologies adoption in the department
* Maintaining, architecting and evolving our development environment to improve efficiency and productivity
* Collaboration with ops team on technology adoption in higher environments
* Owning, improving and architecting build pipelines
* Ensuring maintenance of our Jenkins cluster
* Proactively coordinating with tech leadership and peers
* Breaking down work programs into phases and actionable work items
* Driving refinements, prioritizing work
* Arbitrage of project work VS ad-hoc requests
* Roadmap planning

About you
** Must have
*** Experience managing senior Individual contributors across locations
* Proven track record of onboarding and adapting to new technologies
* Strong ownership mindset with effective problem‐solving capabilities
* Experience building/packaging
** JVM
* * based projects with a focus on security compliance
* Hands‐on Jenkins experience: shared libraries, declarative/scripted pipelines, Job DSL
* Proficient in Git Lab code hosting and CI/CD practices
* Experience with containers and container orchestration systems
* Experience with IaC, cloud computing
* Experience with an observability stack
** Nice to have
*** Java/Springboot projects experience
* Git Ops proficiency with ArgoCD (Application Sets, sync policies, multi-environment promotion)
* AWS (EKS, EC2, IAM, VPC, Cloud Watch, S3) with production-grade reliability experience
* Kubernetes workload management, Helm/Helmfile chart authoring, Docker image best practices
* Terraform module development and state management for AWS…