DevOps Engineer

Unity Advisory is a challenger advisory firm.

Built for the AI-enabled world, we operate a lean, conflict-free, and client-centric model that embeds AI across all work streams.

With no audit practice, we do not have the audit-related conflicts which allows us to focus entirely on delivering value to clients with agility and innovative, outcome-based commercial models. Our culture is highly collaborative and flat-structured and free of traditional partner P&L silos – pursuing the best outcomes for our clients.

We are hiring an experienced Dev Ops Engineer to own our cloud platforms and developer enablement across product teams, partner projects, and data workloads. This role blends strategic platform leadership with hands‑on engineering, building paved roads that make delivery fast, secure, observable, and cost‑efficient. You will define the Dev Ops vision, establish golden paths, and run the shared infrastructure that powers internal engineering and external client solutions.

• Own the cloud platform strategy and roadmap across product, partner, and data domains, aligned to business priorities and cost targets.

• Build and operate secure, scalable multi‑account cloud foundations with strong guardrails, identity boundaries, and least‑privilege access.

• Define and maintain golden paths for developers: repo bootstraps, CI/CD templates, IaC modules, and service archetypes.

• Lead and evolve CI/CD: trunk‑based development, pipelines, quality gates, artifact management, and progressive delivery.

• Establish robust platform SRE practices: SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, incident response, post‑incident reviews, and capacity planning.

• Implement platform security controls: secrets management, image scanning, SBOMs, policy‑as‑code, vulnerability management, and compliance reporting (e.g., ISO 27001 alignment).

• Provide first‑class observability: logging, metrics, traces, dashboards, and alerting with actionable runbooks.

• Standardise infrastructure as code (Terraform / Helm) and Git Ops for environments from dev to production.

• Partner with Data and Analytics to run reliable, governed data platforms, including compute, storage, orchestration, and secure data access.

• Support partner/client projects with repeatable patterns for secure landing zones, connectivity, and deployment workflows.

• Manage cloud cost visibility and optimisation: budgets, tagging, chargeback/showback, rightsizing, and lifecycle policies.

• Select and run core platform tooling: secrets, build, artifact, container registry, runtime, observability, and incident tooling.

• Lead a small, high‑impact Dev Ops/SRE team. Hire, mentor, and establish on‑call, ways of working, and career growth.

• Collaborate with Engineering, Data, Security, and IT to align platform standards, SSO/identity, and endpoint/device policies.

• Vendor and contract management for cloud and platform services, holding suppliers to SLAs and security requirements.

• Proven experience leading Dev Ops/SRE or platform engineering for cloud‑native products and data workloads.

• Deep expertise in:

  • Cloud & Networking: AWS or Azure core services, multi‑account design, VPC/VNet, private networking, load balancing, DNS, CDN.

  • Containers & Runtime: Kubernetes or ECS/AKS, serverless, service mesh, autoscaling, blue/green and canary deploys.

  • CI/CD & Automation: Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI, Azure Dev Ops, or similar. Trunk‑based development and pipeline hardening.

  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform or Pulumi. Modularisation, environments, and policy‑as‑code (e.g., OPA/Conftest).

  • Security & Compliance: Secrets management, IAM/Entra, key management, image scanning, SBOM, ISO 27001 practices.

  • Observability & Reliability: Prometheus/Grafana, Cloud Watch, Open Telemetry, log aggregation, alerting, SLOs, incident response.

  • Data Platform Basics: Storage tiers, orchestration, data pipelines, access controls, and cost governance.

• Track record creating developer golden paths and reducing lead time for changes while improving reliability.

• Strong stakeholder skills and the ability to balance speed, security, and cost.

• Excellent communication and leadership, with experience building and mentoring platform teams.

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