Lead DevOps Engineer (AWS/Azure)

Location: Hybrid, London, England, United Kingdom. Candidates must have a pre-existing right to work and travel within the UK.

Company

hirify.global, part of NEC Corporation, develops software supporting public services including healthcare, emergency response, transport, policing, and local authorities.

What you will do

• Provide hands-on technical leadership across cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, automation, and DevOps standards.
• Own AWS and Azure infrastructure, improving security, reliability, scalability, performance, compliance, and cost efficiency.
• Build and maintain reusable Terraform modules, remote state, environments, and controlled infrastructure changes.
• Develop CircleCI pipelines with secret detection, dependency and container scanning, SBOM generation, code-quality checks, and software supply-chain controls.
• Operate production Kubernetes platforms using Argo CD, Helm, and container tooling; improve observability, incident response, resilience, and disaster recovery.
• Mentor engineers through pairing, code reviews, technical problem-solving, and knowledge sharing.

Requirements

• Production experience with AWS and strong working knowledge of Azure, including networking, identity, security controls, and governance.
• Experience building reusable Terraform module catalogues, managing remote state, and supporting multiple environments, accounts, or subscriptions.
• Production Kubernetes experience covering deployments, upgrades, troubleshooting, capacity, performance, Helm, and GitOps; Argo CD experience is strongly preferred.
• Experience designing CI/CD pipelines and implementing DevSecOps controls, including secrets detection, dependency and container scanning, SBOMs, and supply-chain security.
• Regular use of Python or Bash, with experience developing and maintaining operational tooling.
• Experience with observability, incident response, root-cause analysis, production reliability, and mentoring engineers.

Nice to have

• Terragrunt experience.
• CircleCI experience.
• Cloud cost optimisation and FinOps practices.
• Backup, resilience, and disaster-recovery design and testing.
• Experience working in a geographically distributed engineering team.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work in London within a large public-service technology organisation.
• Private medical cover funded for employees, with optional family coverage.
• 25 days of paid holiday with the option to buy or sell days.
• Group pension contributions of up to 8.5% and employer-funded life assurance.
• Flexible benefits and free access to more than 15,000 LinkedIn Learning courses.

Hiring process

• Offers are subject to satisfactory vetting, references, and occupational health checks.
• A Disclosure and Barring Service check may be required depending on the role.