Lead DevOps Engineer
Hippo Digital is recruiting for a Lead DevOps Engineer to join the Managed Services team. This client‑facing role will work across multiple platforms and cloud‑based solutions to ensure robust, scalable and high‑performing client environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Shape Hippo’s managed services capability by delivering reliable, scalable and secure platforms.
- Act as a Lead Consultant, providing strategic direction and hands‑on expertise across cloud platforms, infrastructure and service operations.
- Lead squads and contribute to the broader engineering community, driving best practices in automation, reliability and secure‑by‑design delivery.
- Participate in the on‑call rotation to provide out‑of‑hours support for critical systems.
- Coach and support the development of other Managed Service staff, ensuring high standards in cloud architecture, CI/CD, testing and platform support.
- Share knowledge with the wider technical community and help recruit additional professionals.
- Ensure strategic contributions to Hippo’s Managed Services and Engineering communities.
Qualifications
- Demonstrable experience managing production workloads on AWS.
- Strong experience with monitoring, observability and alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch or Datadog.
- Experience maintaining robust pipelines using GitLab CI/CD or GitHub Actions, including debugging complex pipeline issues.
- Experience deploying and managing containerised applications.
- Extensive experience with Terraform for infrastructure‑as‑code.
- Experience with Identity & Access Management, including enterprise platforms such as Ping Identity.
- Experience with headless CMS and content platforms such as Contentful.
- Proficiency in languages such as Python and JavaScript.
- Strong stakeholder communication skills, translating technical issues into business impact.
- Willingness to participate in an on‑call rotation.
- Located within reasonable travelling distance from one of Hippo’s UK offices (Leeds, Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, London or Bristol).
- Open to relocation support of up to £8,000.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and transparency.
- Contributory pension scheme (Hippo 6% with employee contributions of 2%).
- 25 days holiday plus UK public holidays.
- Perkbox discounts.
- Critical illness cover.
- Life assurance and death‑in‑service cover.
- Volunteer days.
- Cycle‑to‑work scheme.
- Salary‑sacrifice electric vehicle scheme.
- Season ticket loans.
- Financial and general wellbeing sessions.
- Flexible benefits scheme with options of:
- Private health cover
- Private dental cover
- Additional company pension contributions
- Additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days)
- Wellbeing contribution
- Charity contributions
- Tree planting
Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging
Hippo is committed to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace. We actively encourage applications from underrepresented groups such as women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent individuals and people with disabilities. We are a registered Disability Confident Employer, Mindful Employer, Endometriosis Friendly Employer and a member of the Armed Forces Covenant. We strive to remove barriers, provide accommodations and reasonable adjustments to ensure equity.
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Hippo Digital is recruiting for a Lead DevOps Engineer to join the Managed Services team. This client‑facing role will work across multiple platforms and cloud‑based solutions to ensure robust, scalable and high‑performing client environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Shape Hippo’s managed services capability by delivering reliable, scalable and secure platforms.
- Act as a Lead Consultant, providing strategic direction and hands‑on expertise across cloud platforms, infrastructure and service operations.
- Lead squads and contribute to the broader engineering community, driving best practices in automation, reliability and secure‑by‑design delivery.
- Participate in the on‑call rotation to provide out‑of‑hours support for critical systems.
- Coach and support the development of other Managed Service staff, ensuring high standards in cloud architecture, CI/CD, testing and platform support.
- Share knowledge with the wider technical community and help recruit additional professionals.
- Ensure strategic contributions to Hippo’s Managed Services and Engineering communities.
Qualifications
- Demonstrable experience managing production workloads on AWS.
- Strong experience with monitoring, observability and alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch or Datadog.
- Experience maintaining robust pipelines using GitLab CI/CD or GitHub Actions, including debugging complex pipeline issues.
- Experience deploying and managing containerised applications.
- Extensive experience with Terraform for infrastructure‑as‑code.
- Experience with Identity & Access Management, including enterprise platforms such as Ping Identity.
- Experience with headless CMS and content platforms such as Contentful.
- Proficiency in languages such as Python and JavaScript.
- Strong stakeholder communication skills, translating technical issues into business impact.
- Willingness to participate in an on‑call rotation.
- Located within reasonable travelling distance from one of Hippo’s UK offices (Leeds, Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, London or Bristol).
- Open to relocation support of up to £8,000.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and transparency.
- Contributory pension scheme (Hippo 6% with employee contributions of 2%).
- 25 days holiday plus UK public holidays.
- Perkbox discounts.
- Critical illness cover.
- Life assurance and death‑in‑service cover.
- Volunteer days.
- Cycle‑to‑work scheme.
- Salary‑sacrifice electric vehicle scheme.
- Season ticket loans.
- Financial and general wellbeing sessions.
- Flexible benefits scheme with options of:
- Private health cover
- Private dental cover
- Additional company pension contributions
- Additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days)
- Wellbeing contribution
- Charity contributions
- Tree planting
Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging
Hippo is committed to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace. We actively encourage applications from underrepresented groups such as women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent individuals and people with disabilities. We are a registered Disability Confident Employer, Mindful Employer, Endometriosis Friendly Employer and a member of the Armed Forces Covenant. We strive to remove barriers, provide accommodations and reasonable adjustments to ensure equity.
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