PayPoint

PayPoint is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to lead a team responsible for designing and maintaining deployment pipelines across Azure and AWS. This hybrid role involves collaboration at our Welwyn Garden City office every 2-3 months, where you will manage team goals and ensure the delivery of software solutions while driving a culture of continuous improvement. The ideal candidate will possess strong experience in CI/CD pipeline design, Terraform for infrastructure automation, and advanced knowledge in cloud services.

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will lead the design, evolution, and reliability of the core platform that underpins our engineering ecosystem. You will set technical direction, define standards, and drive best practices that enable product teams to deliver securely, efficiently, and at scale. Your role goes beyond implementation, you will shape the platform strategy, influence architectural decisions, and act as a technical leader across teams. This is a hybrid role with occasional onsite collaboration - typically once every 2-3 months, but you are able to attend our offices as much as you like, at either our Welwyn Garden City or Livepore offices. From time to time, you may also travel between sites. Key responsibilities Owning and evolving the core platform infrastructure (e.g. AKS clusters, networking, API gateways), ensuring scalability, resilience, and operational excellence. Defining and enforcing platform standards, guardrails, and best practices across areas such as security, cost optimisation, reliability, and performance. Driving platform strategy and roadmap in collaboration with engineering leadership, aligning platform capabilities with business objectives. Partnering with product and engineering teams to understand pain points, proactively identify opportunities, and prioritise high impact platform improvements. Leading architecture and design discussions, providing expert guidance on cloud native patterns, distributed systems, and platform capabilities. Designing, implementing, and continuously improving CI/CD and GitOps workflows to enable safe, fast, and repeatable delivery. Championing DevSecOps principles, embedding security and compliance into the software delivery lifecycle. Establishing and improving observability, monitoring, and incident response practices, including vulnerability management and remediation. Mentoring engineers and contributing to a strong engineering culture through knowledge sharing, documentation, and technical leadership. Evaluating and introducing new tools, technologies, and approaches to keep the platform modern, efficient, and competitive. What we would like from you Strong experience in platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps within a distributed cloud environment. Deep expertise in Kubernetes and containerised workloads, ideally in managed environments such as AKS. Proven experience designing and operating scalable, highly available cloud infrastructure. Strong background in CI/CD, automation, and GitOps practices, including building and evolving pipelines at scale. Solid understanding of cloud networking, identity, and security principles, including container and Kubernetes security. Experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management. Strong Linux systems administration knowledge. Demonstrated ability to make pragmatic, risk based decisions that balance business priorities with technical excellence. Experience shaping standards, influencing teams, and driving adoption of platform practices. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non technical stakeholders. It would be great if you have the following Experience with Helm, Kustomize, and Kubernetes ecosystem tooling. Familiarity with Azure and Azure DevOps. Experience with observability platforms and Kubernetes policy enforcement tools. Proficiency in scripting or programming (e.g. Bash, Python, PowerShell, C#). Experience designing multi region or highly available systems. Relevant certifications in Kubernetes, Azure, or cloud-native technologies. Our benefits if you decide to join us Holiday purchase scheme, with 25 days holiday plus bank holidays as standard. On site gym at our office (Free), and nationwide corporate rate gym membership. Online benefits portal where you can access a range of deals and discounts. Contributory company pension scheme. Progression and development opportunities. Private medical insurance. Electric car scheme. Life assurance of 3 annual gross salary, with the option to purchase additional cover. Discounted rate benefits including critical illness cover, bicycles via the Cycle2Work scheme, dental insurance, and TasteCard dining discount card. Love2shop everyday benefits card. As a disability confident committed company, we have a passion for championing equality. We welcome all colleagues into a work environment where success is attainable for everyone, regardless of disability, age, race, religion, gender identity, or sexual orientation. We are committed to ensuring that everyone has equal access to growth and opportunities in our workplace.

PayPoint in Welwyn Garden City is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead the design and evolution of our core platform. This hybrid role requires expertise in platform engineering, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure, with responsibilities including establishing platform standards and driving improvements. You will collaborate with product teams and drive technical direction, while mentoring fellow engineers within a supportive work environment. Enjoy comprehensive benefits including a holiday purchase scheme and private medical insurance.

PayPoint in the United Kingdom is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to lead a team in designing and implementing automated deployment pipelines and infrastructure practices across Azure and AWS environments. This hybrid role invites you to collaborate occasionally on-site, while also enabling remote work flexibility. Responsibilities include building CI/CD pipelines, managing containerized applications, and fostering team development through coaching. Join us for substantial benefits, including a contributory pension scheme and private medical insurance.

As Lead DevOps Engineer, you will lead a high-performing team of DevOps engineers responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining automated deployment pipelines, monitoring solutions, and infrastructure as code practices across Azure and AWS environments. You will drive the technical vision, manage team roadmaps and ad hoc priorities, and ensure rapid, reliable software delivery while maintaining regulatory compliance and fostering a culture of continuous improvement through coaching and mentoring. This is a hybrid role with occasional onsite collaboration - typically once every 2-3 months, but you are able to attend our offices as much as you like, - at either our Welwyn Garden City or Livepool offices. From time to time, you may also travel between sites. Key responsibilities Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and ARM templates Configure and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions for applications and infrastructure Automate deployment processes across development, staging, and production environments Manage containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes orchestration Implement security scanning and compliance checks within deployment pipelines Collaborate with development teams to optimize application performance and reliability Maintain and improve backup, recovery, and disaster recovery procedures Support incident response and root cause analysis for production issues Manage configuration management and secrets management solutions Optimize cloud resource utilization and cost management Lead, mentor, and coach a team of 6 DevOps engineers, fostering professional growth and development Conduct regular 1 on 1 meetings, performance reviews, and career development planning Define team goals aligned with organizational objectives and roadmap priorities Distribute workload effectively, balancing roadmap initiatives with ad hoc operational needs Identify skill gaps and develop training plans to upskill team members Promote knowledge sharing and establish communities of practice within the team Drive a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and operational excellence Cover on call rotation for production support (1 week out of 6) What we would like from you Strong experience with CI/CD pipeline design and implementation (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions) Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code tools, particularly Terraform Experience with containerization technologies (Docker) and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes) Strong knowledge of Azure cloud services and deployment models Experience with monitoring and logging tools (Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana stack) Proficiency in scripting languages (PowerShell, Bash, Python) Understanding of GitOps principles and version control best practices Knowledge of security best practices in DevOps and SecDevOps principles Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills Excellent communication and collaboration skills with development teams Experience with agile development methodologies It would be great if you have the following Experience with Azure DevOps administration Knowledge of database deployment automation and migration strategies Familiarity with microservices architecture and deployment patterns Experience with API management and gateway solutions Knowledge of network security and firewall management Certification in Azure, AWS, or DevOps methodologies Experience with chaos engineering and resilience testing Familiarity with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd, cilium) Even better if you have: Experience in financial services or regulated industries Knowledge of ITIL or similar service management frameworks Experience with automated testing frameworks and test automation Understanding of site reliability engineering (SRE) principles Our benefits if you decide to join us: Holiday purchase scheme, with 25 days holiday plus bank holidays as standard. On site gym at our office (Free), and nationwide corporate rate gym membership Online benefits portal where you can access lots of deals, discounts - for example of shopping or holidays Contributory company pension scheme Progression and Development Private medical insurance Electric Car Scheme Life assurance of 3 x annual gross salary, with the option to purchase additional cover You're also able to purchase a range of benefits at a discounted rate including, critical illness cover, bicycles via our Cycle2Work scheme, dental insurance and TasteCard dining discount card Love2shop Everyday Benefits Card As a disability confident committed company, we have a passion for championing equality. We welcome all colleagues into a work environment where success is attainable for everyone, regardless of disability, age, race, religion, gender identity, or sexual orientation. We are committed to ensuring that everyone has equal access to growth and opportunities in our workplace.

As Lead DevOps Engineer, you will lead a high-performing team of DevOps engineers responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining automated deployment pipelines, monitoring solutions, and infrastructure as code practices across Azure and AWS environments. You will drive the technical vision, manage team roadmaps and ad hoc priorities, and ensure rapid, reliable software delivery while maintaining regulatory compliance and fostering a culture of continuous improvement through coaching and mentoring. This is a hybrid role with occasional onsite collaboration - typically once every 2-3 months, but you are able to attend our offices as much as you like, - at either our Welwyn Garden City or Livepool offices. From time to time, you may also travel between sites. Key responsibilities Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and ARM templates Configure and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions for applications and infrastructure Automate deployment processes across development, staging, and production environments Manage containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes orchestration Implement security scanning and compliance checks within deployment pipelines Collaborate with development teams to optimize application performance and reliability Maintain and improve backup, recovery, and disaster recovery procedures Support incident response and root cause analysis for production issues Manage configuration management and secrets management solutions Optimize cloud resource utilization and cost management Lead, mentor, and coach a team of 6 DevOps engineers, fostering professional growth and development Conduct regular 1 on 1 meetings, performance reviews, and career development planning Define team goals aligned with organizational objectives and roadmap priorities Distribute workload effectively, balancing roadmap initiatives with ad hoc operational needs Identify skill gaps and develop training plans to upskill team members Promote knowledge sharing and establish communities of practice within the team Drive a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and operational excellence Cover on call rotation for production support (1 week out of 6) What we would like from you Strong experience with CI/CD pipeline design and implementation (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions) Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code tools, particularly Terraform Experience with containerization technologies (Docker) and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes) Strong knowledge of Azure cloud services and deployment models Experience with monitoring and logging tools (Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana stack) Proficiency in scripting languages (PowerShell, Bash, Python) Understanding of GitOps principles and version control best practices Knowledge of security best practices in DevOps and SecDevOps principles Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills Excellent communication and collaboration skills with development teams Experience with agile development methodologies It would be great if you have the following Experience with Azure DevOps administration Knowledge of database deployment automation and migration strategies Familiarity with microservices architecture and deployment patterns Experience with API management and gateway solutions Knowledge of network security and firewall management Certification in Azure, AWS, or DevOps methodologies Experience with chaos engineering and resilience testing Familiarity with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd, cilium) Even better if you have: Experience in financial services or regulated industries Knowledge of ITIL or similar service management frameworks Experience with automated testing frameworks and test automation Understanding of site reliability engineering (SRE) principles Our benefits if you decide to join us: Holiday purchase scheme, with 25 days holiday plus bank holidays as standard. On site gym at our office (Free), and nationwide corporate rate gym membership Online benefits portal where you can access lots of deals, discounts - for example of shopping or holidays Contributory company pension scheme Progression and Development Private medical insurance Electric Car Scheme Life assurance of 3 x annual gross salary, with the option to purchase additional cover You're also able to purchase a range of benefits at a discounted rate including, critical illness cover, bicycles via our Cycle2Work scheme, dental insurance and TasteCard dining discount card Love2shop Everyday Benefits Card As a disability confident committed company, we have a passion for championing equality. We welcome all colleagues into a work environment where success is attainable for everyone, regardless of disability, age, race, religion, gender identity, or sexual orientation. We are committed to ensuring that everyone has equal access to growth and opportunities in our workplace.