Lead DevOps Engineer in Birmingham

Job Description

Bristow Holland is recruiting for a 100% fully remote Lead DevOps Engineer to join a global organisation and take ownership of it's DevOps function.

This is a hands-on leadership role, managing a team of 4 engineers while driving cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, and DevOps best practices across the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of 4 DevOps Engineers
• Drive DevOps strategy, standards, and best practices
• Design and maintain Azure cloud infrastructure
• Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines
• Champion automation and a shift-left engineering culture
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and business teams

Key Skills Required

• 6+ years' experience in DevOps, Cloud, or Platform Engineering
• Previous leadership or team lead experience
• Strong Azure experience (AKS, App Services, Key Vault, Networking)
• Kubernetes in production environments
• Terraform and Helm
• CI/CD experience, ideally Azure DevOps
• Strong understanding of cloud architecture, networking, and security

This is an excellent opportunity to join a global organisation in a fully remote role where you'll have genuine ownership, leadership responsibility, and the chance to shape the future of the DevOps function.