Lead DevOps Engineer

  • PSR Limited
  • Leeds, Yorkshire
  • Jun 27, 2025
Full time I.T. & Communications

Job Description

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job requisition id JR

Division - Data, Technology & Innovation

Department - Digital Product (DPD)

Salary - National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £72,100 to £117,100 and London £79,300 to £128,800 per annum (Salary offered will be based on skills and experience)

About the FCA

The FCA regulates the conduct of 45,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. Follow this link to find out more About the FCA .

What will you be doing?

The DevOps Team plays a vital role in managing our environments and overseeing the deployment process. The team is responsible for coordinating software releases and updates across multiple delivery teams, ensuring seamless integration and stability of the platforms and services that underpin the FCA's case management function. As a key part of our department, the DevOps Team ensures that our systems remain reliable, scalable and aligned with business needs, supporting the smooth delivery of new features on critical services.

The Case & Regulatory Risk Management Product Group is responsible for the ongoing maintenance and enhancement of the FCA's case management products, which are built on the Salesforce platform. This includes a range of supporting technical services and products, such as AWS and Amazon Connect. The group comprises 11 delivery teams who implement regular changes to the platform, with software releases occurring on an almost weekly basis. Their work ensures the continuous improvement and reliability of the systems that support our core operations.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable DevOps pipelines for Salesforce and AWS platforms

Lead a DevOps team that supports multiple delivery teams within a fast-paced deployment environment

Oversee your team's responsibilities, including maintaining Salesforce environments, managing environment refreshes, monitoring and troubleshooting pipeline issues, and installing/updating managed packages

Collaborate with stakeholders such as Product Owners, Tech Leads, and delivery teams to align technical delivery with business objectives

Lead continuous improvement initiatives by implementing DevSecOps best practices, ensuring standardization, and adhering to FCA governance and development principles

Monitor system performance using FCA-approved tools and contribute to improving departmental DORA metrics

What will you get from the role?

Gain valuable experience working with a highly customized Copado implementation alongside the latest AI tools integrated into DevOps

This role offers a significant career opportunity for DevOps professionals who excel in leading, motivating and coaching a team of high-performing individuals

Contribute to solving complex technical challenges related to financial regulation, monitoring, and enforcement

Play a pivotal role in driving innovation and enhancing efficiency in DevOps practices through the adoption of advanced AI-powered deployment tools

Which skills are required?

We are a Disability Confident Employer; therefore, disabled people or individuals with long-term conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process. (To learn more about the Disability Confident Scheme Click Here )

Minimum

Experience working with Salesforce platform deployment processes and coordinating software releases across multiple teams

Experience designing and maintaining scalable CI/CD pipelines to support efficient software delivery

Experience leading DevOps teams and supporting delivery efforts in environments leveraging AWS

Proficiency in scripting languages and tools such as YAML, Python, Bash, or PowerShell to automate deployment processes

Experience working within Agile development environments, actively participating in Agile ceremonies to support continuous delivery

Experience leading DevOps teams comprising both internal and external resources, managing multiple delivery teams across diverse deployment pipelines

Experience using GitHub for version control, collaboration, and managing code repositories in fast-paced DevOps workflows

Our Values & Diversity

We are proud to be an inclusive employer and our ambition is to cultivate a culture for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views and experiences. We believe that our differences and similarities enable us to be a better organisation - one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better regulation.

Within the workplace you will have access to various employee resource groups which aim to promote and achieve a healthy work / life balance and support our diversity ambitions.

Did you know? 50% of our Executive Committee were the first in their family to attend university.

Benefits of working at the FCA

28 days holiday per year plus bank holidays

Hybrid working (work from home up to 60% of your time)

Private healthcare with Bupa

A non-contributory Pension of at least 8% of basic salary each month (there are several contribution levels that increase depending on your age - up to 12% a month once you reach age 35)

Life assurance of eight times your basic salary

Income protection
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