Lead DevOps Engineer

** End Date
** Wednesday 25 March 2026
** Salary Range**£92,701 - £109,060
** Flexible Working Options
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** Job Description
**** JOB TITLE**:
Lead Dev Ops Engineer
** SALARY:** £92,702 - £109,000
** LOCATION(S):
** Manchester
*
* HOURS:

** Full time
** WORKING PATTERN:
** Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the above office location
** About this opportunity
** We’re the Colleague Channels Platform—the team powering the technology that supports colleagues in Branches, Contact Centres and Operations. We deliver shared services and cross‐platform capabilities, working with teams across the Group to create simpler, more connected colleague experiences. Our Cloud team sets the standards for automation, pipelines, infrastructure and monitoring, leading the adoption of modern Dev Ops practices in collaboration with central and feature teams!

This is a hands‐on leadership role: you’ll set direction and standards while staying close to the engineering—designing, building and evolving critical platform capabilities with your team!

As Lead Engineer in the Cloud Team, you will:
* Shape the Dev Ops strategy and roadmap while staying hands‐on—designing, validating and guiding solutions, anticipating demand, and adopting emerging Group tooling to improve pace, quality and safety.
* Promote a culture of enablement, ensuring Dev Ops capabilities are federated and teams can own, develop, test and deliver their features independently.
* Lead the design and evolution of CI/CD pipelines, release automation and monitoring patterns, contributing deeply to shared Kubernetes and Istio platforms across GCP and OCP.
* Define and apply platform guardrails and standards that enhance security and support fast, safe delivery.
* Build strong collaborative relationships with labs and central teams, coaching on build and release standards and unblocking delivery through practical, hands‐on support.
* Coach and develop engineers within the team to help them grow their skills and impact.
* Evaluate new technologies and approaches, turning successful ideas into reusable platform patterns.
* Stay technically involved where it matters most—prototyping new capabilities, reviewing complex designs, and supporting teams through critical delivery and issues.
** What you’ll need
*** Strong mix of hands‐on engineering expertise and strategic leadership—able to design and evolve complex Dev Ops and platform capabilities while setting direction and enabling others.
* Practical experience across GCP and OCP, including delivering cloud infrastructure and environments.
* Deep, hands‐on knowledge of Dev Ops tooling (Git Hub, Harness, Jenkins, IBM Dev Ops Deploy, Terraform, Dynatrace, Sonar Qube, Nexus, Aqua, Python) with a track record of adopting and embedding new tools.
* Experience leading, mentoring and developing engineering teams.
* Skilled at managing platform‐wide priorities and stakeholders.
* Driven to enable teams to deliver safely and at pace.
* A leader who stays close to the work—still coding, building and troubleshooting.
** Useful additional experience
*** Software engineering across microservices, web apps and the full delivery lifecycle.
* Automated testing and quality engineering.
* Service operations, including monitoring, alerting and SLI/SLOs.
* Databases, schema management, streaming and messaging technologies.
* Networking fundamentals (segmentation, subnetting, policies, firewalls, routing).
** About working for us
** Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
** We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
*** A generous…