Interim Head of DevOps - CONTRACT

DevOps & Automation Platform Manager

£750 - £780 per day | Inside IR35 | 4 months initial contract

Hybrid - London & Surrey | (2 days p/w London + 1 day onsite in Surrey)

We are looking for an experienced DevOps & Automation Platform Manager to take leadership of the DevOps, tooling and automation capability within a large, complex enterprise environment.

This is a senior technology leadership role combining DevOps strategy, platform ownership, operational management and major programme delivery. You will lead a geographically distributed DevOps function of approximately 30 engineers through a small number of team leads, while owning the strategic direction and performance of the wider tooling and automation estate.

The organisation is predominantly Microsoft Azure, with a smaller Legacy AWS estate being progressively decommissioned.

They need a leader who is able to bring a fresh pair of eyes to the environment, able to optimise what they are doing, drive engineering productivity and efficiency, and to help them with a future roadmap and strategy.

The Role:

You will take responsibility for the strategy, roadmap and BAU management of the DevOps and automation environment, covering Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, cloud-native tooling and wider operations/service management tooling.

Key responsibilities will include:

Own and develop the DevOps, Tooling & Automation strategy and roadmap .

Lead a distributed DevOps engineering function across the UK and India.

Drive DevOps/SRE culture, engineering standards, automation and continuous improvement.

Oversee the life cycle, performance, security and reliability of tooling and automation platforms.

Own and optimise CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code capabilities.

Provide governance and leadership across major technology programmes requiring DevOps and tooling capability.

Ensure appropriate security, vulnerability management, compliance and SDLC governance.

Manage critical platform issues and ensure effective operational performance.

Work closely with Architecture, Security, Service Operations and senior technology stakeholders.

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