Principal Devops Engineer

We are looking for a Principal Dev Ops Engineer to act as the senior-most technical leader within Dev Ops, driving the organisation's approach to CI/CD, deployment, observability, automation and reliability.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role
. You will spend a significant amount of time building production-grade solutions, developing reusable engineering patterns and establishing standards that enable teams to deliver software faster, more safely and more reliably.

You will act as a technical force multiplier across engineering teams and delivery partners, working closely with Architecture, Platform Engineering, Software Engineering, QA, Security and Product.

Guiding principle: Pave paths. Automate everything that should be automated. Make the right thing the easy thing.

Dev Ops Architecture & Engineering Standards

• Define CI/CD, deployment, observability and reliability standards across the engineering organisation.
• Author RFCs and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) to drive technical decisions and alignment.
• Lead the evolution of Dev Ops platforms, tooling and engineering practices.
• Partner with Architecture on long-term technical strategy and roadmap.
• Establish reusable frameworks and engineering patterns across internal and external delivery teams.
• Write production-grade code, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop reference implementations that engineering teams can adopt and build upon.
• Lead by example in engineering best practices, automation and operational excellence.
• Conduct technical reviews and review pull requests for critical engineering initiatives.
• Own and evolve the organisation's CI/CD platform, including reusable components, plugins, pattern libraries and developer experience.
• Drive improvements across key DORA metrics, including deployment frequency, lead time for change, change failure rate and MTTR.
• Embed quality gates, security controls and progressive delivery into deployment pipelines.
• Continuously improve the developer experience and reduce friction across the software delivery lifecycle.

• Define standards for metrics, logging, tracing, monitoring and alerting.
• Drive adoption of Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budget practices.
• Lead production reliability, resilience and capacity planning initiatives.
• Facilitate post-incident reviews and promote a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

• Define and maintain Infrastructure as Code standards using Terraform, Pulumi or equivalent technologies
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• Develop self-service platform capabilities for engineering teams.
• Automate operational tasks, processes and runbooks wherever possible.
• Build and maintain reusable automation frameworks and libraries.

• Integrate SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, secrets management and software supply chain security into CI/CD pipelines.
• Partner with Security teams to establish and implement Dev Sec Ops  practices.
• Promote least-privilege access and Zero Trust principles.
• Automate compliance processes and audit evidence wherever possible.

• Coach and mentor Dev Ops engineers across all levels of experience.
• Lead technical communities of practice and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
• Support technical recruitment, interviewing and assessment processes.
• Develop future technical leaders within the organisation.

• Work closely with Engineering, Platform, Software Engineering, QA, Security, Architecture and Product teams.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor across multiple disciplines.
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear, practical and decision-ready recommendations.
• Build alignment across technical…