Lead DevOps Engineer

At Nuffield Health, everything we give our patients, members and customers would not be possible without you. Your passion, your warmth, your drive to make a difference. Whether it’s driving connecting health, helping the nation, transforming experiences or building the career you want – we give you the support to do it all. Join our journey. It starts with you.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly skilled Lead DevOps/Automation Engineer. The ideal candidate will have previous experience in leading a team of DevOps Engineers and demonstrate technical expertise in working with cloud Infrastructure and services, implementing CI/CD pipelines, and the effective operation and reliability of business-critical production systems using monitoring and alerting tools.

This role also provides the opportunity to shape our Cloud and Automation standards, from platforms and services through to tooling and processes. You’ll be able to define what good looks like and work with cross-functional teams to make it happen, developing their capability along the way.

To be successful in this role, you should demonstrate that you have:

• The ambition for creating and nurturing a culture of DevOps across a Technology organisation; working with existing infrastructure and Software Engineering teams to define new practices and evolve ways of working.
• Experience with various forms of Cloud infrastructure, hosting and services e.g. IaaS, PaaS, Serverless computing and all-in-one cloud-based solutions.
• Experience working with infrastructure-as-code, configuration, and automation tools such as Terraform and Ansible to provision and manage Cloud infrastructure and automate software delivery processes.
• Previously designed, implemented, and maintained CI/CD pipelines that automate the building, testing, and releasing of software; using tools such as Jenkins, Sonarqube, Azure DevOps, Github actions, or similar.
• Working knowledge of containerisation and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes, ideally running on Azure (AKS).
• Experience integrating and configuring various logging, monitoring, and alerting tools (e.g. Splunk, New Relic) that provide operational insight into the health of live applications and systems.
• Experience in applying a range of cloud security tools and techniques (e.g. threat modelling, vulnerability scanning, dependency checking, reducing attack surface area), ideally incorporating these tools and techniques into automated pipelines.
• The desire to upskill and enable product engineering squads to operate and maintain the infrastructure, services and CI/CD pipelines that power their applications and systems.
• Extensive experience in the administration of Linux Operating Systems within large corporate environments.
• Previously led teams of multi-skilled DevOps/Automation Engineers and mentored individuals at various levels from Associate through to Senior.
• Worked within product engineering teams and in close collaboration with other roles including Product Owners, Architects, Designers, QA and Delivery.

This role will provide you with the opportunity to:

• Grow a DevOps/Automation function across our Engineering organisation, building on existing capabilities and standardising our approach, going forward.
• Define and evolve our technology-wide Cloud and Automation strategy, ensuring that engineering squads adopt and maintain best practices going forward.
• Work closely with cross-functional product teams to design and implement appropriate cloud native solutions, codifying the infrastructure, configuration and CI/CD pipelines to automate processes and improve efficiency.
• Work across a wide variety of interesting and challenging systems covering different aspects of fitness, wellbeing, and health care.
• Opportunities to learn and develop your career while staying close to your engineering roots.
• An environment that allows you to perform at your best work, working collaboratively with like-minded colleagues who are focused on improving the health of our nation and making a real difference to peoples’ everyday lives.

Helping you feel good. We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early. So, it’s a good idea to apply right away to ensure you’re considered for this role. Apply today… It starts with you.