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Lead DevOps Engineer
Location: London (Hybrid 3 days on site minimum)
Salary: £110,000 – £120,000
Agency: Gravitas Recruitment Group
About the Role
We’re hiring a Lead DevOps Engineer for a fast-growing tech company working with global brands like Diageo, Campari, Pernod Ricard, and Twinings.
This is a high-impact role where you’ll lead DevOps strategy and execution across a multi-environment platform, supporting cutting-edge NFC authentication technology and immersive customer experiences.
You’ll join a collaborative, ego-free engineering team and take ownership of infrastructure, automation, and scalability. This is ideal for a current Lead or a Senior DevOps Engineer ready to step up.
Key Responsibilities
Team & Culture
What you’ll get
Location: London (Hybrid 3 days on site minimum)
Salary: £110,000 – £120,000
Agency: Gravitas Recruitment Group
About the Role
We’re hiring a Lead DevOps Engineer for a fast-growing tech company working with global brands like Diageo, Campari, Pernod Ricard, and Twinings.
This is a high-impact role where you’ll lead DevOps strategy and execution across a multi-environment platform, supporting cutting-edge NFC authentication technology and immersive customer experiences.
You’ll join a collaborative, ego-free engineering team and take ownership of infrastructure, automation, and scalability. This is ideal for a current Lead or a Senior DevOps Engineer ready to step up.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead DevOps initiatives across production, staging, and sandbox environments.
- Own infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using TypeScript-first approaches.
- Collaborate with engineering and product teams to ensure scalable, secure, and cost-efficient deployments.
- Support SOC compliance and networking architecture.
- Mentor and guide DevOps practices across the team.
- Essential Experience
- 8 years + experience in a mature DevOps engineering team.
- Strong TypeScript-first infrastructure mindset ( This role will not suite Terraform-heavy experinc).
- AWS expertise, especially ECS Fargate.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using TypeScript.
- MongoDB and PostgreSQL experience.
- Highly Desirable but not essential
- Pulumi experience.
- MongoDB Atlas.
- SOC compliance exposure.
- Fly.io deployment experience.
- AWS networking (VPCs, private connections).
Team & Culture
- 12-person engineering team including PMs and product leads.
- CTO (Alan) oversees 3 companies with global partnerships.
- Roderick is the current sole DevOps specialist—this role will provide much-needed support.
- Culture: collaborative, hardworking, no egos.
- Flexible working based on trust and performance.
- New central London office coming soon.
What you’ll get
- Hybrid: 3–4 days in office (flexible for exceptional candidates).
- Salary: £110–120k (flexible for the right person).
- Performance-based salary reviews tied to KPIs.
- Benefits include:
- Private medical insurance
- 10 days “work anywhere” policy (excluding beach holidays)
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