Team Lead, DevOps Engineer
Intermedia Intelligent Communications2 months ago
Remote, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a small DevOps engineering team supporting Unite Services and Unite Integrations.
- Own platform reliability, security, operational efficiency, deployments, releases, and multi-environment support.
- Operate and evolve cloud and on-prem Kubernetes clusters, including upgrades, networking, ingress, scaling, and security.
- Design and maintain GitHub-based CI/CD pipelines, self-hosted runners, repository migrations, branching strategies, and GitOps practices.
- Manage supporting infrastructure including Redis, Consul, Harbor, Chart Museum, API gateways, and message queues.
- Drive security hardening, vulnerability remediation, WAF and rate-limiting controls, secrets management, and compliance initiatives.
- Define and execute disaster recovery and ransomware recovery strategies and maintain recovery runbooks.
- Own observability, dashboards, alerts, incident response, post-incident improvements, and platform documentation.
- Contribute to Internal Developer Platform capabilities, developer experience improvements, RFCs, and platform maturity models.
Requirements
- Strong background in platform or DevOps engineering for complex distributed systems.
- Deep understanding of compute, networking, storage, DNS, certificates, and load balancing.
- Deep production Kubernetes and Docker experience, including cluster operations, upgrades, scaling, security, ingress, and RBAC.
- Experience with at least one major cloud provider; Azure is preferred and AWS or GCP is a plus.
- Experience working in hybrid cloud and on-prem environments.
- Strong experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines, including GitHub Actions and self-hosted runners.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Crossplane, and Helm.
- Strong scripting or coding skills in Python, Go, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Experience with configuration-management tools such as Ansible or Chef.
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and centralized logging systems such as ELK or Splunk.
- Understanding of infrastructure, network, and application security practices; WAF, rate limiting, Qualys, and CrowdStrike experience is a plus.
- Proven experience leading DevOps or platform teams, mentoring engineers, and owning outcomes from design through ongoing operations.
- Experience leading small or medium-sized projects using Agile, Scrum, or similar methods.
- Experience with Internal Developer Platforms, API gateways, Apache Flink, ransomware preparedness, disaster recovery, business continuity, or multi-region and multi-tenant systems is preferred.
Benefits
- All candidates must be located in the United Kingdom.
- Intermedia promotes from within and emphasizes teamwork, transparency, accountability, and an inclusive work environment.
Tech Stack
AnsibleApache FlinkBashChefCloudflareConsulDockerGitHub ActionsGoGrafanaHelmKubernetesPowerShellPrometheusPythonRabbitMQRedisSplunkTensorFlowTerraform