Lead DevOps Engineer (AWS)

Location: Leeds, United Kingdom; hybrid working model with some flexible working.

Company

hirify.global is a European technology partner delivering secure digital solutions and daily operations for governments, critical industries and businesses across Europe.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor and develop the platform engineering team, including resourcing, recruitment, performance management and on-call rota design.
• Own the AWS platform across all environments, setting its multi-year technical direction and roadmap, including Kubernetes, service mesh upgrades, lifecycle management and architecture improvements.
• Design, build and operate AWS infrastructure as code with Terraform and modern container platforms including Amazon EKS, Karpenter, Istio and GitOps deployment.
• Own CI/CD reliability and performance across Azure DevOps and Argo CD, including automated testing, quality gates and rollback.
• Drive availability, resilience and disaster recovery through backup and restore testing, failover, incident response, observability and alerting.
• Manage external SOC providers, technical security and compliance, FinOps, cost optimisation, customer communication and roadmap planning.

Requirements

• Deep experience leading platform or DevOps engineering teams and delivering reliable, secure cloud platforms.
• Deep AWS infrastructure-as-code expertise with Terraform, including networking, compute, data, security and edge services.
• Experience running Amazon EKS, Karpenter, Istio and GitOps-based deployment.
• Experience owning CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps and Argo CD, including automated testing, quality gates and rollback.
• Strong leadership experience mentoring engineers, managing performance and designing on-call rotas.
• Experience managing external SOC providers and leading FinOps and cost optimisation initiatives.
• At least one AWS certification: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, or AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with flexible working options.
• 25 days’ holiday, private medical healthcare via Vitality, pension contribution and life assurance.
• Professional certification support, hirify.global Academy courses and a personal mentor from the leadership group.
• Collaborative, inclusive and international community with professional and social events and Employee Resource Groups.
• Low-bureaucracy, agile and flexible working environment focused on responsible digitalisation.