Lead DevOps Engineer

Lead DevOps Engineer

Active SC Clearance | Public Sector Digital Transformation | 📍 Remote First (with once per month travel to client site in London)

About Amber Labs

Amber Labs is a leading UK and European technology consultancy delivering secure, user-centred digital services across government and public sector organisations.

We foster a culture of collaboration, autonomy, and continuous learning, empowering our teams to solve complex challenges using modern technologies while delivering meaningful outcomes.

🎁 What's in it for You?

✅ 25 days annual leave plus public holidays, giving you time to properly switch off and recharge

✅ Private medical insurance with Bupa

✅ Remote-first working, with access to our Liverpool Street office when you want to collaborate in person

✅ Personal training budget to support your professional development

✅ Perkbox membership, with access to discounts across retail, travel, dining, wellness and entertainment

✅ Electric Vehicle Scheme after one year of service

✅ Regular team socials and opportunities to connect across the business

✅ Employer pension contributions

✅ Referral scheme offering up to £3,000 for successful hires

✅ The opportunity to join a growing consultancy early and genuinely influence its direction and success

💻 About the Role

We're looking for an experienced Lead DevOps Engineer to join our engineering practice and provide technical leadership across major public sector digital transformation programmes.

You'll play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering cloud platform strategy for complex government services, leading the design and implementation of secure, scalable AWS environments while driving engineering best practice across delivery teams.

Working within multidisciplinary Agile teams, you'll collaborate with architects, software engineers, security specialists and senior stakeholders to define cloud solutions, improve operational resilience and enable high-performing software delivery. Alongside remaining hands-on technically, you'll mentor engineers, influence technical decisions and champion a culture of automation, innovation and continuous improvement.

🔧 Key Responsibilities

* Lead the design and implementation of AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform

* Define cloud platform standards, architecture principles and best practices

* Build secure, resilient and scalable cloud-native environments

* Drive Infrastructure as Code adoption and platform automation initiatives

* Lead the development and optimisation of CI/CD pipelines across multiple teams

* Improve platform observability through monitoring, logging and alerting solutions

* Oversee Kubernetes and Docker-based platform implementations

* Ensure environments meet security, governance and operational compliance requirements

* Provide technical leadership, mentoring and coaching to DevOps engineers

* Contribute to cloud strategy, architecture discussions and continuous improvement initiatives

* Collaborate with senior stakeholders to deliver complex cloud transformation solutions

✅ Requirements

* Active SC Clearance (mandatory)

* Extensive experience delivering DevOps and platform engineering solutions within AWS environments

* Strong expertise across AWS services including EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Lambda and ECS/EKS

* Significant Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation

* Proven experience designing and supporting enterprise-scale CI/CD pipelines

* Strong Docker and Kubernetes experience within production environments

* Scripting experience using Python and/or Bash

* Strong understanding of Git and modern software delivery practices

* Experience leading technical teams and mentoring engineers

* Strong stakeholder management and communication skills

* Experience working in Agile, multidisciplinary environments

* Excellent troubleshooting, analytical and decision-making abilities

ℹ️ Additional Information

* Active SC Clearance is required for this position.

* You will be supporting the delivery of major UK government digital transformation programmes.

* Unfortunately visa sponsorship is not available for this role

🌈 Diversity & Inclusion

At Amber Labs, we are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to succeed.

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and are dedicated to fostering a culture that celebrates diversity, promotes equality, and supports every employee throughout their career journey