Lead DevOps Engineer / DevOps Team Lead

About the job Lead DevOps Engineer / DevOps Team Lead Location: Remote Salary: Negotiable We're supporting a global consultancy that delivers technology and digital solutions into the pharmaceutical and life sciences sector. As part of their continued growth, they're looking to appoint a Lead DevOps Engineer to take ownership of their DevOps capability and help shape the future of their engineering platform. This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll be responsible for driving DevOps strategy, improving engineering efficiency, and building scalable, secure, and reliable cloud infrastructure. You'll work closely with engineering, product, and business stakeholders whilst remaining technically involved in Azure, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation. The Role You'll lead the evolution of DevOps practices across the organisation, helping teams deliver software more efficiently whilst improving platform reliability, security, and observability. This role combines technical leadership with hands-on engineering and would suit someone who enjoys influencing engineering culture while remaining close to the technology. Key Responsibilities Own and drive the DevOps vision, standards, and engineering best practices across the organisation. Design, build, and optimise scalable, secure, and reliable cloud infrastructure. Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines across multiple applications and services. Design, deploy, and support Azure-based infrastructure environments. Champion Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation-first approaches. Collaborate with engineering and product teams to align platform initiatives with wider business objectives. Promote DevOps and shift-left engineering principles across development teams. Mentor and support engineers across the wider technology function. Improve platform observability, monitoring, reliability, and operational performance. Facilitate collaboration between development, infrastructure, and business stakeholders. Required Experience 6+ years' experience within DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or Cloud Engineering environments. Previous experience in a technical leadership, team lead, or senior engineering role. Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, including: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) App Services Networking Storage Key Vault Virtual Machines Strong Kubernetes experience within production environments. Commercial experience with Terraform and Helm. Strong CI/CD experience, ideally using Azure DevOps. Scripting or development experience in at least one of the following: Python Go PowerShell Bash Strong understanding of cloud architecture, networking, security, and platform design. Experience working within cross-functional engineering teams. Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and observability solutions. Desirable Experience Cloudflare, Edge Computing, or WAF experience. Exposure to AI or Large Language Model (LLM) technologies. Experience working within consultancy, healthcare, pharmaceutical, or life sciences environments. What's on Offer Fully remote working. Opportunity to lead and shape DevOps strategy within a growing technology consultancy. Significant influence over engineering standards, tooling, and platform direction. Exposure to modern cloud-native technologies and enterprise-scale environments. Collaborative and highly technical engineering culture. If you're interested in learning more, please apply or send your CV to luke.sandilands@cpl.com.