Lead DevOps Engineer

Lead our strategic roadmap for DevOps capabilities in alignment with business and engineering goals.

There is a lot going on from Front End through Middle Tier to Back End as we look to simplify, automate, integrate, and embed consistencies across our tech stack.

Note: you will be able and comfortable commuting to our Head Office in Abingdon, Oxon, at least one day per week.

Bring your experience and lesson learned to the table to support and make a difference. You will support and work with a talented team of clever, open minded and receptive technical specialists across multiple teams and platforms, whilst we support your career and development.

The Lead DevOps Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the systems and infrastructure that enable high-quality software delivery.

This role leads our DevOps engineers, working closely with software engineering, security, product, and IT operations teams to ensure reliability, scalability, and efficiency across development pipelines and production environments.

The Lead DevOps Engineer champions automation, continuous integration, and delivery (CI/CD), infrastructure-as-code, and observability practices across teams. You will be a key driver of platform stability and improvement.

If you are looking to step into a more strategic and planning type role where you will influence and drive adoption, as well as develop teams, then get in touch to explore more.

Previous experience within the Telecommunications industry, as well as working with Salesforce and Velocity.would be benefical. We are however looking for knowledge of the following:

• Proven expertise in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, and platform engineering, working with multiple development teams, across multiple tech stacks and platforms
• Strong experience with CI/CD tooling, IaC, and cloud-native architectures
• Excellent scripting and automation capabilities (e.g., Bash, Python, YAML).
• Skilled in monitoring, logging, and alerting (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
• In-depth understanding of networking, security, and Linux systems
• Containerisation: Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher, Karpenter
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible, Helm
• CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitLab CI
• Secrets Management: Vault, Boundary, Teleport
• Monitoring and Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic Stack, Icinga2, InfluxDB
• Cloud Platforms: AWS (primary), Azure
• Operating Systems: Linux (CentOS, RHEL, Alma)
• Configuration Management: Puppet, Ansible
• Version Control: Git
• Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL
• Virtualisation and Backup: VMWare, Veeam
• Security Practices: TLS, SSH, iptables

Key skills and experience

Gigaclear is a growing Fibre Broadband (FTTP / FTTH) company, developing our fibre-to-the-premises broadband infrastructure to some of the most difficult to reach areas of the UK, empowering those communities with broadband to rival any city.

Staff rewards, benefits and opportunities

We foster a collaborative, engaging culture that empowers staff to grow and maximise their skills. We want to challenge our people in a fair environment where hard work is rewarded and a path for progression is open to all.

• Generous employer pension; up to 8% matched contribution 
• Income protection & life assurance 
• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays), holiday purchase scheme and Yay Days!  
• Health cash plan, 24/7 remote GP access and Employee Assistance Programme including counselling & legal advice 
• Unlimited access to online training and development content via our Learning Management System 
• Long service benefits and monthly employee recognition 
• Enhanced maternity and paternity provisions 
• Flexible working environment 
• Health & Wellbeing initiatives and company funded social events 

Our values

Our approach is to work guided by our mission, vision and values.

Find a way, Be committed, Do the right thing, Keep it simple.