Lead DevOps Engineer - #2070860

Sparta Global are hiring 2 DevOps Leads / Lead DevOps Engineers to lead, mentor and coach a DevOps capability within a banking environment.

This role combines hands-on technical leadership with people development, making it ideal for someone who enjoys mentoring and coaching junior engineers while remaining deeply involved in engineering delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and optimisation of scalable DevOps and cloud infrastructure solutions
• Own and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and release processes
• Drive Infrastructure as Code adoption and DevOps best practice across engineering teams
• Mentor, coach, and support junior and inexperienced DevOps engineers through hands-on guidance and technical leadership
• Support the development of engineering standards, operational processes, and platform governance
• Collaborate closely with software engineering, QA, security, and platform teams
• Monitor system reliability, availability, and performance across environments
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and deployment issues
• Champion DevOps culture, continuous improvement, and automation-first thinking
• Contribute to technical roadmaps and long-term platform strategy

Skills & Experience Required

• Strong commercial experience in a senior or lead DevOps engineering role
• Proven experience mentoring or leading junior DevOps engineers or wider engineering teams
• Strong experience with cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud
• Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Ansible
• Experience with containerisation and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Strong scripting and automation skills using tools such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and observability tooling
• Strong understanding of DevOps principles, security, networking, and system reliability
• Comfortable working within Agile delivery environments