Role: DevOps Tech Lead

Location: Nottinghamshire

Working Arrangement: 1 Day Per Month Onsite

Salary: Up to £125k (Realistic £110–120k)

Let’s cut through it. This isn’t a “keep the lights on” DevOps role.

This is a platform-shaping, culture-driving, reliability-owning Tech Lead position. You’ll be the person who ensures the engine never stalls.

Powering 50+ websites and 10 mobile apps, this digital ecosystem operates at serious scale. The infrastructure behind it? That’s where you come in.

The Mission

We’re looking for a DevOps Tech Lead to own the cloud platform, drive operational excellence and build a squad that delivers infrastructure properly.

You’ll spend around 30% hands-on (because leaders who code earn respect), and the rest shaping strategy, mentoring engineers and pushing standards higher.

This is about:

Scalable, secure Azure cloud environments
Rock-solid Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
Mature CI/CD pipelines & GitHub workflows
Observability, incident management & reliability
Building a true DevOps / SRE culture
If uptime, automation and elegant infrastructure matter to you – you’ll feel at home here.

What You’ll Own

Lead a high-performing DevOps / Platform squad
Design and scale Azure infrastructure
Drive Terraform best practice across environments
Improve monitoring, alerting & system visibility
Implement SRE principles (SLAs, SLOs, error budgets)
Guide incident management & root cause analysis
Elevate CI/CD and release strategies
Embed a culture of automation, accountability and security
You won’t just respond to incidents, you’ll design systems where incidents become rare.

What You Bring

Proven experience leading DevOps or SRE teams
Deep Azure expertise (networking, identity, cost, provisioning)
Strong Terraform & IaC in production
Docker, Kubernetes / AKS experience
CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions or similar)
Monitoring stack exposure (Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, etc.)
Strong communication across tech & non-tech stakeholders

Bonus points for:

FinOps / cloud cost optimisation
Zero-trust / secrets management
Event-driven systems & distributed architecture
CDN & performance optimisation knowledge
You think strategically, You execute practically and you hold the bar high.

The Perks (And They’re Proper Perks)

Up to £125k (sweet spot £110–120k)
Remote-first (1 day per month onsite)
Monthly peer recognition with potential double pay for a month
Staff discount across all group brands
Onsite state-of-the-art gym with full shower facilities
Discounted gym memberships across multiple UK locations
24/7 wellbeing support including counselling & financial/legal advice
Real progression in a business that backs ambitious leaders

And here’s something different – once a year you’ll spend time on the frontline of the business to understand how your platform impacts real-world operations. That perspective shapes better engineering decisions.

Why This Role?

Because you’re not just another DevOps engineer. You’re someone who: