Lead AWS DevOps Engineer

Lead AWS DevOps Engineer

Hybrid | 2 Days per Week in Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham or Glasgow | Up to £77,500

We're looking for a Lead AWS DevOps Engineer to join a growing managed services function supporting the delivery and operation of secure, scalable cloud platforms. This is a senior technical leadership role for someone who enjoys combining hands-on engineering expertise with architectural ownership, mentoring and stakeholder engagement.

You'll work closely with engineering teams, technical leaders and senior business stakeholders to shape cloud strategy, improve platform reliability and drive engineering excellence across complex AWS environments.

The Role

You'll lead the design, delivery and continuous improvement of cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices across multiple digital platforms. Balancing strategic technical leadership with hands-on engineering, you'll help teams build secure, resilient and highly automated environments while driving best practice across infrastructure, deployment and operational processes.

This role is hybrid, requiring approximately 2 days per week onsite in either Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham or Glasgow, with flexibility to support business requirements when needed. The role also includes participation in an on-call support rota.

What You'll Do

• Design and evolve secure, scalable AWS cloud architectures
• Lead infrastructure automation initiatives using Infrastructure as Code
• Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to DevOps engineers
• Drive cloud security, governance and operational best practice
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to senior stakeholders
• Support complex cloud migrations, modernisation and transformation programmes
• Champion cloud-native technologies and platform engineering principles
• Contribute to technical strategy, architectural decision-making and delivery assurance
• Support critical production services as part of an on-call rota

Skills & Toolkit

• Extensive experience in senior DevOps, Platform Engineering or Cloud Architecture roles
• Deep expertise across AWS services and cloud-native architectures
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform
• Advanced scripting and automation skills with Python
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS)
• Strong CI/CD engineering experience and modern deployment practices
• Excellent understanding of cloud security, networking and governance
• Proven ability to influence technical direction and engage senior stakeholders
• Experience leading engineers and mentoring technical teams
• Strong knowledge of Agile delivery environments
• Previous experience within consulting, managed services or customer-facing environments
• Comfortable using AI-assisted tooling to improve engineering efficiency

Application Information

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