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DevOps Tech Lead
Location
United Kingdom
Posted
83 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
DevOps Tech Lead
Frasers Group
• Lead a high-performing DevOps/Platform squad responsible for infrastructure-as-code, observability, CI/CD, and cloud operations. • Drive the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and highly available cloud environments (primarily Azure) using Terraform and modern DevOps tools. • Spend approximately 30% of your time hands-on, contributing to IaC, automation scripts, monitoring setups, and critical system improvements. • Guide your team through effective incident management, ensuring rapid resolution, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement of system reliability. • Champion SRE best practices including error budgeting, SLAs/SLOs/SLIs, and proactive reliability engineering. • Coach and mentor engineers through pairing, reviews, and architectural discussions. • Collaborate with product and engineering stakeholders to define platform roadmaps and priorities. • Continuously evolve our CI/CD pipelines, GitHub workflows, release strategies, and operational playbooks. • Foster a DevOps culture with a strong focus on automation, security, observability, and accountability. • Ensure effective Agile ceremonies and delivery practices are followed, adapting where needed for high-performing operations-focused teams.
Job Requirements
- Proven experience leading DevOps or SRE teams, with a strong focus on infrastructure, automation, and operational excellence.
- Deep expertise in cloud platforms (preferably Azure), including identity, networking, cost management, and resource provisioning.
- Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code principles in production environments.
- Practical knowledge of container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, AKS).
- Proficient with CI/CD systems and GitHub Actions or similar tooling.
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems with high reliability, security, and observability.
- Working knowledge of monitoring and alerting tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, Honeycomb, or Datadog).
- Solid understanding of event-driven systems, RESTful APIs, and caching solutions like Redis.
- Effective communicator with the ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams and engage non-technical stakeholders.
- Familiarity with SRE principles, including SLAs, SLOs, and error budgets.
- Experience with incident management processes and tools like PagerDuty or Opsgenie.
- Exposure to security practices in DevOps, including secrets management and zero-trust architecture.
- Familiarity with MACH and composable architecture.
- Previous experience with cost optimization and FinOps in a cloud environment.
- Understanding of edge delivery networks, CDN configuration, and performance optimization.
- Hands-on experience with service mesh, policy management, or API gateways is a plus.
Benefits
- Reward, Recognition and Opportunities
- Frasers Champion - Our employees are at the heart of our business and we ensure individuals are recognised every single month for their hard work. Frasers Champion is a peer nominated scheme where 8 winners will receive double their pay for a month where they have thought without limits, owned it or been relevant.
- Retail Reconnect – In order to build the planets most admired and compelling brand ecosystem, all employees must understand our business, product and customers. Each financial year, Head Office employees will gain insights by spending two days in one of our stores or the Warehouse. The goal is to learn how the work you do impacts our teams on the frontline, and to bring ideas back to the office which will improve how we work.
- Employee Welfare
- Frasers Fit – Our Everlast Gyms Team are on a mission to make our workforce the best, and fittest on the planet! We run free gym classes for employees as well as discounted memberships to our clubs. Frasers Fit is our wellbeing programme which aims to support and improve colleagues Physical, Financial & Mental wellbeing. The app is accessible for every employee and includes training, nutrition and lifestyle advice- all completely free.
- Retail Trust – We know that its not just about physical health, mental wellness is equally important which is why all of our employees get free access and support from the Retail Trust charity. This includes a 24 hour wellbeing helpline, wellness hub, counselling and financial/legal support.
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