Lead Infra Engineer (with Cloud Security) in Bristol

The Role

• As a DevOps Engineering leader, you will play a critical role in defining and executing the organizations technical strategy across modern cloud and application architectures.

• Working within the engineering leadership team, you will be accountable for technical direction, engineering excellence, and successful delivery across the technology estate.

• You will collaborate closely with product and business teams to shape and evolve the technical roadmap, ensuring alignment with broader organizational objectives, security requirements, and long-term strategic goals.

• Leveraging a deep understanding of cloud platforms, infrastructure, architecture, and operational controls, you will provide technical leadership and engineering oversight to drive resilient, scalable, and secure solutions.

• You will be responsible for building and maintaining a high-performing Infrastructure and DevOps Engineering function, developing consistent capabilities and skills that can adapt to changing business demands.

• Through effective line management, coaching, and mentoring, you will foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, accountability, and professional growth

• The role includes overseeing the delivery, monitoring, and continuous enhancement of the cloud security framework, ensuring services remain highly resilient, well-documented, and compliant with audit, regulatory, and organizational requirements.

• You will champion engineering best practices, operational excellence, and security-first principles while supporting the organizations evolving technology and security agenda.

Your responsibilities:

• Excellent DevOps engineering skills across modern cloud and application architectures.

• Working within the engineering leadership team, accountable for technical direction and execution across the lab.

• Working with product teams in the definition and evolution of the technical strategy in service of the wider roadmap and security agenda.

• Providing technical leadership and engineering oversight with a detailed understanding of the technology estate, architecture and controls.

• Building a dynamic and robust engineering function, with consistency of skills able to respond to the changing demands of the organization.

• Line manages and coaches a team of Infrastructure & DevOps Engineers, promoting a high-performance culture.

• Set objectives, provide mentoring, and support continuous professional development.

• Oversee the delivery, monitoring, and continuous improvement of the cloud security framework.

• Ensure services are highly resilient, documented, and aligned with compliance and audit requirements.

Essential skills/knowledge/experience:

• Leadership experience in DevOps and/or Infrastructure Engineering role, with associated line management responsibilities.

• Proven expertise and hands-on experience in Terraform, Python, Kubernetes, and cloud- based architectures—including Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure, and preferably AWS.

• Strong familiarity with foundational security controls and concepts, specifically in modern cloud and enterprise architectures and supporting ecosystem (CI/CD) – ideally including Backstage, Harness, GitHub and Jenkins.

• Strong stakeholder management and ability to influence product and platform strategy.

Desirable skills/knowledge/experience:

• Knowledge of cloud, Kubernetes, microservice and API based architectures and their security.

• Experience in financial services and regulated environments and responding to audits.

• Possibly participation in an on-call rota and supporting 24/7 services.

• Security certifications (e.g., CISSP, CCSP, Cloud / DevOps / Kubernetes certification).