About this role
Salary: £53,000 - 93,000 per year
Requirements
- Strong experience across DevOps, Platform Engineering, and Cloud Architecture
- Proven experience defining and delivering enterprise DevOps or Platform Engineering strategies
- Deep expertise in Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, cloud platforms, automation, and modern engineering practices
- Strong architecture governance and stakeholder management skills
- Experience leading engineering transformation programmes within complex enterprise environments
- Cloud architecture certification in AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Kubernetes or container platform expertise
- Experience with DORA metrics, Value Stream Management, or Flow Metrics
- Exposure to AI-enabled engineering platforms
- Financial Services, Insurance, or other regulated-industry experience
Responsibilities
- Define the strategic vision for DevOps, Platform Engineering, and Developer Experience
- Design scalable, secure, and automated delivery platforms
- Establish standards for CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, observability, resilience, and environment management
- Lead the adoption of DevSecOps and Platform-as-a-Product practices
- Drive cloud modernisation, engineering automation, and self-service capabilities
- Partner with Architecture, Engineering, Security, Operations, and Product teams to deliver engineering platforms
- Champion AI-enabled engineering and continuous improvement initiatives
Technologies
- AI
- AWS
- Architect
- Azure
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- DevSecOps
- DevOps
- Flow
- GCP
- Kubernetes
- Security
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Were partnering with a leading global insurance organisation seeking a DevOps Architect to define and drive its enterprise DevOps and Platform Engineering strategy. This key architecture role will shape cloud-native delivery, platform engineering, automation, DevSecOps, developer experience, and engineering excellence across a large-scale technology estate. The position is a six-month remote contract, inside IR35. We are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
last updated 46 week of 2026