DevOps Manager

Salary: £100,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements

• Proven experience leading or managing DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE or similar technical teams.
• Experience within retail, ecommerce, luxury retail, travel, fintech or other high-volume digital environments.
• Strong hands-on understanding of DevOps practices, with the ability to get involved technically rather than operating purely at a strategic level.
• Strong Microsoft Azure experience across IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, serverless, containers and automation.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Pulumi, ARM or similar technologies.
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, particularly Azure DevOps and GitHub.
• Good understanding of PowerShell, YAML, Python and/or TypeScript.
• Strong understanding of networking, including DNS, routing, firewalls and load balancing.
• Experience managing enterprise-scale web applications, microservices and high-traffic digital platforms.
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Dynatrace, Catchpoint or similar.
• Experience managing incidents, problem management, root cause analysis and live production environments.
• Understanding of application and cloud security, including OWASP principles, WAF, bot management and security scanning.
• Experience with CDN technologies and security controls, such as Akamai, Cloudflare or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and develop a DevOps team, managing capacity, priorities and day-to-day delivery.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across Azure infrastructure, deployment pipelines, automation and operational tooling.
• Oversee the reliability, availability, security and performance of ecommerce and digital platforms across development, test and production environments.
• Support frequent product launches and releases, working closely with Development, Product, Testing, Security and IT teams to ensure platforms are ready for live service.
• Lead incident management, root cause analysis and service improvement activities, ensuring issues are resolved effectively and lessons are applied.
• Manage monitoring and observability, using tools such as Dynatrace or similar platforms to improve visibility, alerting and platform performance.
• Oversee cloud infrastructure, environments and costs, identifying opportunities for optimisation and improved efficiency.
• Support the implementation of secure networking, CDN and certificate management solutions, including technologies such as Akamai or Cloudflare.
• Maintain operational standards, documentation, runbooks, KPIs and SLOs across the DevOps function.
• Manage third-party suppliers and technology partners, ensuring services meet agreed performance and operational requirements.
• Manage the DevOps on-call rota and ensure appropriate support coverage for production services.
• Identify opportunities to introduce automation, AI-assisted tooling and improved engineering practices across the DevOps function.
• Provide technical guidance while developing the team and creating opportunities to move towards a more strategic engineering leadership model.

Technologies

• AI
• ARM
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Dynatrace
• GitHub
• IaaS
• Incident Management
• Support
• Load Balancing
• OWASP
• PaaS
• PowerShell
• Pulumi
• Python
• Security
• Serverless
• Terraform
• TypeScript
• WAF
• Web
• microservices

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We are partnering with a leading luxury retailer to recruit an experienced DevOps Manager to lead the day-to-day operation, support and continuous improvement of our ecommerce and digital platforms. This is a hands-on leadership role combining technical delivery with team management, based in the UK on a remote permanent basis. We work in a fast-moving digital environment with frequent product launches and releases, and this role sits close to the technology while overseeing cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, automation, monitoring, security and live service operations.

last updated 34 week of 2026