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DevOps Engineering Lead – North West (Hybrid – 2 days a week onsite) – £80,000 - £90,000 Meraki Talent have partnered with one of their global financial services clients as they look to add an Engineering Lead to guide a team of 15engineerins in delivering and evolving a large-scale internal platform that supports thousands of internal users. This role blends technical depth with strategic direction, supporting a platform that underpins enterprise-grade container orchestration and shared tooling. You’ll help drive engineering productivity at scale, enabling developers, testers, release managers and SREs. This is a role for someone who brings clarity, alignment, and long-term focus to platform evolution, reliability, and security — and who is passionate about enabling teams, driving innovation, and building resilient systems. Experience Leading and mentoring engineering teams in DevOps or platform engineering environments.Designing and optimising CI/CD pipelines for containerised workloads at scale.Managing enterprise Kubernetes environments (e.g. Openshift, AWS EKS, Azure AKS, GCP GKE) with a focus on multi-tenant orchestration and high availability.Building shared developer tools and platforms that improve productivity across multiple teams.Implementing practices that enhance system reliability, such as monitoring and alerting.Strategic thinking to align platform evolution with long-term engineering goals. Please note: You must have full working rights in the UK and be willing to work 2 days a week on site south of Manchester.