Lead DevOps Engineer

Role: Lead DevOps Engineer

Location: Newport (Hybrid)

Salary: £74k

28.9% Pension

Flexi working (build own schedule)

The Opportunity

Yolk Recruitment are excited to be working with an innovation-driven civil service organisation as they journey through an incredible digital transformation whilst prioritising forward thinking and excellent digital practices. Alongside this, they pride themselves on being a Stonewall Diversity Champion, which means they are part of Britain's leading best-practice employers' forum for sexual orientation and gender identity equality, diversity and inclusion.

Working within an established team, this role provides an opportunity to turn innovative ideas into customer value using a range of technologies and delivery platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership, coaching, and mentoring to engineers
• Lead DevOps practices across the full software delivery lifecycle
• Define and assure technical designs aligned to business needs
• Act as a technical product owner, contributing to medium-long term strategy
• Support and guide cross-functional teams in selecting appropriate solutions
• Promote knowledge sharing and continuous improvement across teams
• Ensure alignment with architectural standards, security, and governance
• Contribute to technology strategy, roadmaps, and planning activities
• Collaborate with stakeholders to influence and challenge technical decisions
• Encourage reuse of tools, patterns, and best practices
• Stay informed on emerging DevOps trends and innovations

People & Leadership

• Mentor and support engineers in technical and professional development
• Provide light line management where required
• Contribute to building capability across the wider engineering community

Core Experience

• Strong understanding of DevOps principles within iterative delivery environments
• Proven experience leading DevOps decision-making across delivery lifecycles
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, including design and implementation
• Experience embedding automated testing within delivery pipelines
• Ability to troubleshoot, support services, and resolve incidents
• Experience managing risks and issues
• Strong communication skills with experience mentoring and knowledge sharing
• Ability to select appropriate technical solutions based on user and business needs

Technical Skills

• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g. Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or similar)
• Infrastructure as Code experience (e.g. Terraform)
• Experience working with cloud platforms (Azure or equivalent)
• Development or scripting experience (e.g. Python, Bash, PowerShell)
• Experience with containerisation (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, or cloud-native services)
• Familiarity with modern application stacks (e.g. .NET, Python, Node.js)
• Experience managing source code repositories (e.g. Git)

Think this one's for you

If you think this Lead DevOps Engineer opportunity is for you then please apply online.

Yolk Public Sector & Not-for-Profit team works with organisations across the UK to fulfil their recruitment needs and to achieve their D&I objectives. We recruit temporary, contract and permanent hires for 1 off specialist needs or for volume campaigns. We support our applicants to navigate the public sector recruitment processes and secure their dream jobs.

Yolk Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer and embraces diversity in our workforce. We employ the best people for the job at hand and actively encourage applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, age, race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, educational background, parental status, gender identity or any other protected characteristic. We champion and celebrate diversity at Yolk allowing our team to bring their whole selves to work.