Devops Tech Lead

Are you passionate about building resilient cloud infrastructure championing DevOps culture and leading high-performing teams Were looking for a Devops Tech Lead to join our dynamic Digital Engineering team and lead the development operations and continuous improvement of core platform services cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices. 

This is a unique opportunity to shape the technical foundation that powers over 50 websites and 10 mobile applications for some of the UKs most iconic retail brands. 

As a Devops Tech Lead youll drive operational excellence reliability and scalability across our platforms. Youll guide a squad focused on cloud infrastructure observability incident response and automationblending technical hands-on work (approximately 30% of your time) with team leadership and strategic thinking. 

Key Responsibilities 

• 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. 

Qualifications :

What Were Looking For 

• 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. 

Desirable Skills 

• 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. 

Additional Information :

Along with your benefits package we also offer a wide range of perks for our colleagues:

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.

CEO Sessions  Once a quarter we offer 20 employees the opportunity to attend our CEO Sessions ran by our CEO and leadership team. Employees have the chance to connect network and submit questions around specific topics such as our Sports or Luxury business.

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.

Whats next

Our Recruitment Team will be reviewing applications and all candidates will receive a response whether you are successful or unsuccessful. Shortlisted applicants may be asked to confirm a few key details before being booked in for a first stage interview with the Recruiter- this will be behaviourally focussed and centred around how you align with our Culture and Values. If successful we anticipate two further interview stages with the Hiring Manager/wider team which will be more technically focussed and could include a presentation/task so we can see your skills in action.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time