DevOps Lead

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We have an exciting position open for an experienced Dev Ops Engineer who will have a mandate to develop best in class solutions for Dev Ops. This greenfield opportunity will see you as the go to person for all things Dev Ops. You'll have had prior experience of working in rapid scale-up environments where you've had direct access to senior leadership, significant influence on technical strategy alongside fostering a culture of best practice and technical innovation within your teams.

Our client, profitable, well-funded and growing at 30% YoY, is looking for a Lead Engineer Dev Ops engineer to head up their Dev Ops function. Having found product / market fit, now is a key inflection point as they embark on a major re‑engineering effort to position themselves for scale and to support the large backlog of clients ready to onboard to their platform.

As an established Lead Dev Ops specialist, you'll have experience of the following:

• 8‑12 years in Dev Ops/SRE, with at least 2+ years in a leadership or mentorship role.
• Proven expertise with Terraform for IaC.
• Advanced knowledge of AWS cloud services (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, Lambda, etc.).
• Hands‑on experience with Cloudflare configuration and management.
• Strong track record building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Git Hub Actions preferred).
• Experience designing observability solutions for distributed/cloud‑native systems.
• Strong knowledge of Dev Sec Ops  practices and security‑first mindset.
• Proven ability to mentor, lead, and grow teams in fast‑paced environments.
• Collaborating effectively with a technically astute product team.
• Driving technical excellence across all stages of the product lifecycle.
• Coaching, mentoring and growing an established mid‑level team who are eager to learn from you.
• Working in a start‑up / scale‑up environment where you enjoyed having a broad impact, close proximity to leadership and seeing first‑hand the impact of your efforts.
• Seeing the value being on‑site 3 days a week has in building culture, fostering innovation, and supporting effective communication.
• Any experience with Snowflake would be a real bonus for this role.

If you're an experienced Dev Ops Engineer excited to take the lead with greenfield development, in a rapid‑scale environment, growing a team around you, we'd love to hear from you.

Strong Dev Ops engineers are promised a response within 24 hours of application.

The Difference Engine is a recruitment company working on behalf of its client.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Information Technology

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