Lead DevOps Engineer
On site
Abingdon-On-Thames, United Kingdom
Full Time
01-04-2025
Job Specifications
About
Lead our strategic roadmap for DevOps capabilities in alignment with business and engineering goals.
There is a lot going on from Front End through Middle Tier to Back End as we look to simplify, automate, integrate, and embed consistencies across our tech stack.
Note: you will be able and comfortable commuting to our Head Office in Abingdon, Oxon, at least one day per week.
Bring your experience and lesson learned to the table to support and make a difference. You will support and work with a talented team of clever, open minded and receptive technical specialists across multiple teams and platforms, whilst we support your career and development.
The Lead DevOps Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the systems and infrastructure that enable high-quality software delivery.
This role leads our DevOps engineers, working closely with software engineering, security, product, and IT operations teams to ensure reliability, scalability, and efficiency across development pipelines and production environments.
The Lead DevOps Engineer champions automation, continuous integration, and delivery (CI/CD), infrastructure-as-code, and observability practices across teams. You will be a key driver of platform stability and improvement.
If you are looking to step into a more strategic and planning type role where you will influence and drive adoption, as well as develop teams, then get in touch to explore more.
Previous Experience Within The Telecommunications Industry, As Well As Working With Salesforce And Velocity.would Be Benefical. We Are However Looking For Knowledge Of The Following
Proven expertise in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, and platform engineering, working with multiple development teams, across multiple tech stacks and platforms
Strong experience with CI/CD tooling, IaC, and cloud-native architectures
Excellent scripting and automation capabilities (e.g., Bash, Python, YAML).
Skilled in monitoring, logging, and alerting (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
In-depth understanding of networking, security, and Linux systems
Containerisation: Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher, Karpenter
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible, Helm
CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitLab CI
Secrets Management: Vault, Boundary, Teleport
Monitoring and Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic Stack, Icinga2, InfluxDB
Cloud Platforms: AWS (primary), Azure
Operating Systems: Linux (CentOS, RHEL, Alma)
Configuration Management: Puppet, Ansible
Version Control: Git
Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL
Virtualisation and Backup: VMWare, Veeam
Security Practices: TLS, SSH, iptables
Key Skills And Experience
Gigaclear is a growing Fibre Broadband (FTTP / FTTH) company, developing our fibre-to-the-premises broadband infrastructure to some of the most difficult to reach areas of the UK, empowering those communities with broadband to rival any city.
Staff rewards, benefits and opportunities
We foster a collaborative, engaging culture that empowers staff to grow and maximise their skills. We want to challenge our people in a fair environment where hard work is rewarded and a path for progression is open to all.
Generous employer pension; up to 8% matched contribution
Income protection & life assurance
25 days holiday (plus bank holidays), holiday purchase scheme and Yay Days!
Health cash plan, 24/7 remote GP access and Employee Assistance Programme including counselling & legal advice
Unlimited access to online training and development content via our Learning Management System
Long service benefits and monthly employee recognition
Enhanced maternity and paternity provisions
Flexible working environment
Health & Wellbeing initiatives and company funded social events
Our values
Our approach is to work guided by our mission, vision and values.
Find a way, Be committed, Do the right thing, Keep it simple
Nice-to-have skills
DevOps
Scripting
Automation
Bash
Python
YAML
Prometheus
Grafana
Networking
Security
Docker
Kubernetes
Terraform
Ansible
Jenkins
Gitlab CI
Vault
Elastic Stack
AWS
Azure
Operating Systems
Linux
CentOS
Puppet
Version Control
Git
Databases
PostgreSQL
MySQL
VMWare
Veeam
SSH
iptables
Abingdon, England
Work experience
DevOps
Build/Release
Site Reliability (SRE)
Languages
English
About the Company
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