DevOps Engineering Manager

Job Description Roles & Responsibilities Responsibilities Drive delivery. Translate DevOps priorities into execution, remove blockers, surface risks early and help ensure high-quality delivery. Lead technical design. Drive design reviews across infrastructure, reliability and platform engineering, partnering with the Head of DevOps on broader architectural decisions. Own the DR programme. Take ownership of a live Disaster Recovery programme: plan and coordinate recurring DR exercises across environments and markets, coordinate execution with regional teams, and drive continuous improvement of RPO/RTO. Stay hands-on. Review infrastructure changes and code, troubleshoot production systems, prototype solutions and get directly involved when technical depth is required. Improve operational discipline. Strengthen observability, incident response, postmortems, SLOs, capacity planning and production readiness. Support and grow the team. Coach engineers, raise engineering standards, take an active role in hiring, own onboarding, and help create an environment where the team can perform at its best. Automate by default. Champion Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, CI/CD and self-service tooling to reduce manual operations. Embed security and compliance. Partner with Security and Compliance to meet regulatory, audit and governance requirements across Lean's markets. Use AI effectively. Help the team use agentic coding tools responsibly to improve engineering quality and velocity. Qualifications Our interview process assesses these areas directly. 8+ years across DevOps, Infrastructure, SRE or Platform Engineering, including time leading engineers as a team lead or Engineering Manager. Deep Linux and networking fundamentals: processes, memory, storage, TCP/IP, DNS and routing. Kubernetes in production: design, operations and troubleshooting. Infrastructure as Code as your default way of working: Terraform, Pulumi (or equivalent), CI/CD and GitOps. Production experience with at least one major cloud platform - OCI or GCP preferred, AWS also fine. You read, write and review code in languages such as Python, Go or Bash, including judging AI-generated changes. The interview process includes a short practical exercise. System design fundamentals: distributed systems, high availability, failure modes, Disaster Recovery, capacity and cost. Production troubleshooting depth: comfortable investigating processes, resource usage, network connections, logs, environment variables and application behaviour rather than relying only on dashboards. Experience with observability and incident response; you write clear postmortems and drive the fixes that follow. Comfortable joining an on-call and escalation rotation. Clear communication, coaching and stakeholder management. Preferred Skills: Experience in fintech, payments or another regulated technology environment. Experience operating infrastructure across multiple regions, clouds or markets. Experience building developer platforms or self-service infrastructure. Familiarity with technologies such as ArgoCD, Vault, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB or Cloudflare. Experience helping establish or grow an engineering team in a new market or office. Hands-on experience using agentic coding tools as a core part of your workflow (we run on Claude Code), with the judgment to know when to trust their output and when to scrutinies it more closely. NB. While we think the above experience could be important, we're keen to hear from people that believe they have valuable experience to bring to the role. If you identify with the team and mission, but not all of our requirements, then please still apply!! Desired Candidate Profile 8+ years across DevOps, Infrastructure, SRE or Platform Engineering, including time leading engineers as a team lead or Engineering Manager. Deep Linux and networking fundamentals: processes, memory, storage, TCP/IP, DNS and routing. Kubernetes in production: design, operations and troubleshooting. Infrastructure as Code as your default way of working: Terraform, Pulumi (or equivalent), CI/CD and GitOps. Production experience with at least one major cloud platform - OCI or GCP preferred, AWS also fine. You read, write and review code in languages such as Python, Go or Bash, including judging AI-generated changes. The interview process includes a short practical exercise. System design fundamentals: distributed systems, high availability, failure modes, Disaster Recovery, capacity and cost. Production troubleshooting depth: comfortable investigating processes, resource usage, network connections, logs, environment variables and application behaviour rather than relying only on dashboards. Experience with observability and incident response; you write clear postmortems and drive the fixes that follow. Comfortable joining an on-call and escalation rotation. Clear communication, coaching and stakeholder management. Preferred Skills: Experience in fintech, payments or another regulated technology environment. Experience operating infrastructure across multiple regions, clouds or markets. Experience building developer platforms or self-service infrastructure. Familiarity with technologies such as ArgoCD, Vault, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB or Cloudflare. Experience helping establish or grow an engineering team in a new market or office. Hands-on experience using agentic coding tools as a core part of your workflow (we run on Claude Code), with the judgment to know when to trust their output and when to scrutinies it more closely. NB. While we think the above experience could be important, we're keen to hear from people that believe they have valuable experience to bring to the role. If you identify with the team and mission, but not all of our requirements, then please still apply!! Company Industry IT - Software Services Department / Functional Area Engineering Keywords DevOps Engineering Manager Get real-time job updates only on our App