Head of DevOps and Platform Automation
London – Hybrid
£100,000 – £120,000 + Bonus
VIQU are partnering with a leading financial services organisation undergoing a major transformation across its cloud and infrastructure landscape. They are seeking a Head of DevOps and Platform Automation to take ownership of a critical DevOps and tooling function that underpins the delivery of strategic change across a complex, enterprise-scale environment. This is a high-impact leadership role, responsible for driving DevOps maturity, CI/CD excellence, and automation strategy across multi-tenant cloud platforms, while leading geographically dispersed teams and ensuring robust operational performance, governance, and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities of the Head of DevOps and Platform Automation:
Own and evolve the DevOps, CI/CD and automation strategy and roadmap across tooling and platform services
Lead and develop a distributed DevOps and tooling team across UK and offshore locations, driving a culture of continuous improvement and engineering excellence
Oversee end-to-end platform lifecycle management ensuring availability, resilience, security and compliance across all tooling environments
Drive standardisation and optimisation of CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks and DevOps practices across the organisation
Manage BAU performance, incident escalation and service reliability for critical DevOps platforms, including P1 management and stakeholder communications
Oversee delivery of DevOps and tooling elements within major transformation programmes and cloud initiatives
Act as a key stakeholder interface across IT, business and architecture teams to align tooling capability with strategic objectives
Manage third-party vendors and suppliers, ensuring SLA adherence, performance optimisation and cost effectiveness
Own budget management, resource planning and FinOps activity to ensure efficient platform and supplier spend
Ensure compliance with governance, security and regulatory standards across all DevOps and tooling operations
Champion automation, innovation and continuous improvement, including adoption of modern cloud and emerging technologies
Key Experience Required of the Head of DevOps an...
Head of DevOps and Platform Automation employer: VIQU IT Recruitment Careers
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