Lead DevOps (iOS) in London

For over 25 years, Global Relay has set the standard in enterprise information archiving with industry‑leading cloud archiving, surveillance, eDiscovery, and analytics solutions. We securely capture and preserve the communications data of the world’s most highly regulated firms, giving them greater visibility and control over their information and ensuring compliance with stringent regulations.

Your role: Global Relay is looking for an iOS DevOps lead to help consolidate our Continuous Integration pipelines and deployment processes, maximise efficiencies, and enable world‑leading software quality. The role combines hands‑on technical activities with line‑management duties to maintain a high‑performing, motivated team.

Responsibilities:

• Automation: researching, innovating, and developing solutions inline with DevOps best current practices.
• Operations: monitoring and streamlining tooling, processes, or infrastructure to ensure a smooth and consistent experience for our development teams.
• Service reliability: instrumenting monitoring to maximise on‑premise hardware performance and ensuring system issues are dealt with efficiently; collaborating closely with our developer community to provide support and troubleshooting.
• Technical leadership: setting strategic goals for iOS DevOps and ensuring scaling, efficiency, and security needs are met through the activities of the team.
• People management: ensuring the team maintains high motivation, working on the highest value priorities, and conducting regular 1‑to‑1s, coaching, guidance, and performance‑management activities to develop staff and maximise their potential.

Qualifications:

• Minimum 2 years working as a team lead.
• 1‑2 years using Xcode and Swift.
• Comfortable collaborating with cross‑functional areas.
• Strong security awareness, including security best practices surrounding Kubernetes.
• Hands‑on experience with Python and Bash.
• Comfortable working in a cross‑geographic team.
• Understanding of computer‑science fundamentals such as threading, OOP, and related concepts.
• Understanding of software‑systems concepts such as networking, firewalls, protocols, databases, and related topics.
• Understanding of software‑delivery practices such as Git branching models and configuration management.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or similar.
• Infrastructure‑as‑Code tools such as Ansible or Puppet.
• Containerisation/virtualisation technology such as Docker, Podman, VMware.

Nice to haves:

• Experience working in a highly regulated environment.
• Experience managing on‑premise infrastructure or a cluster of Mac Minis.
• Understanding of software‑delivery practices such as feature toggling and no‑downtime deployment.

Employees are required to attend the office 4 days per week in accordance with Global Relay’s hybrid working policy. Global Relay is unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position. Candidates must have the right to work in the UK at the time of application. Global Relay is an equal‑opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We seek to ensure reasonable adjustments, accommodations, and personal time are tailored to meet the unique needs of every individual.