Senior DevOps Governance & Platform Engineering Lead

About the role

We are looking for a senior leader to drive DevOps governance, standardisation and platform engineering across our high‑performing team. The role balances strategic oversight (about 65%) with technical enablement (about 35%) to ensure reliable, secure and compliant delivery pipelines.

Key responsibilities

• Define and enforce DevOps governance frameworks, standards and operating models.
• Establish, track and report key DevOps KPIs (deployment frequency, lead time, MTTR, change failure rate, platform reliability, etc.).
• Create executive‑level dashboards and performance summaries.
• Drive platform standardisation, architectural alignment and security/compliance integration.
• Manage risk, capacity planning, budget alignment and vendor relationships.
• Coordinate DevOps activities across engineering, architecture, security and operations.
• Provide architectural oversight for CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes strategy, cloud‑native patterns, observability and DevSecOps practices.
• Act as escalation point for governance‑related decisions and continuous improvement initiatives.

Required profile

• Senior‑level experience leading DevOps or platform engineering teams.
• Strong governance, KPI management and reporting background.
• Proven ability to align cross‑functional teams and manage risk/compliance.
• Excellent communication skills for executive reporting and stakeholder coordination.

Required skills

• CI/CD & GitOps (GitHub Actions, GitHub Workflows, ArgoCD)
• AWS cloud services (including AWS Fargate)
• Kubernetes (EKS preferred)
• Container platforms and cloud‑native architecture
• Observability tools (Dynatrace)
• Data & messaging technologies (MongoDB, Kafka/Confluent)
• API management (Apigee, AWS API Gateway)
• DevSecOps & quality tools (SonarQube, Nexus Repository)