Head Of DevOps

September 21, 2026

Remote

Head

London

Description

The Head of DevOps will own the platforms, infrastructure and delivery pipelines that let the company ship software securely and reliably to capital markets clients. This is a senior leadership role with a global remit, spanning regional DevOps teams and reporting to the Executive Vice President of Engineering. The position carries accountability for reliability, security and cost transparency across a large, multi-region cloud estate, including a self-service platform for engineering teams.

Responsibilities

Owning and evolving the DevOps strategy and translating it into a roadmap the business can plan around
Owning the shared cloud infrastructure, tooling and delivery pipelines every engineering team builds and ships on
Building and leading a DevOps function that spans more than one region to the same agreed standards
Ensuring infrastructure meets the security and compliance bar clients and regulators expect, with evidence such as SOC 2
Giving the business clear, reliable visibility into infrastructure cost attributed by client and project
Building a self-service platform so engineering teams can provision, build and ship independently
Line-managing and growing the team, including hiring as the function scales
Handling incident response and post-incident review for issues that touch shared infrastructure

Requirements

Senior leadership experience owning a DevOps or platform function, ideally spanning more than one team or region
Proven track record of line-managing engineers with real accountability for their performance and development
Strong technical judgement to assess whether what the team is building is the right shape and raise issues early
Significant hands-on background building and running large-scale production systems on AWS and/or GCP
Deep knowledge of networking, IAM, compute, managed Kubernetes, CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code at scale
Experience running a cloud estate that must stand up to external audit such as SOC 2 and give real cost visibility
Clear communication, able to explain architectural trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders alike
Familiarity with containerisation and Kubernetes sufficient to credibly review the team's architecture decisions

Conditions

Annual salary of between £122,000 and £135,000, depending on experience
Annual bonus plan
25 days annual leave
Aviva healthcare
Equity options
Training and well-being allowances
Some travel to visit the wider team in Bangalore from time to time, with no extended stints away from home

AWSGCPKubernetesCI/CDInfrastructure as CodeSOC 2IAMNetworkingcapital markets softwareMulti-region DevOps leadershipClient-facing or regulated services backgroundAWS Certified DevOps Engineer

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