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Head of DevOps jobs

Kennedy Pearce recruits visionary Heads of DevOps who lead the design and implementation of scalable, reliable CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure, enabling seamless software delivery and operational excellence.

Typical responsibilities for Head of DevOps roles include:

  • Defining and executing DevOps strategy, culture, and best practices across engineering teams

  • Leading the design, build, and optimisation of CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or CircleCI

  • Overseeing infrastructure as code (IaC) implementations with Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible

  • Managing container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, or OpenShift

  • Ensuring high availability, monitoring, and performance of production systems using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or Datadog

  • Collaborating with security teams to embed DevSecOps practices and automate compliance checks

  • Mentoring and developing DevOps engineers, fostering a culture of automation, reliability, and continuous improvement

  • Partnering with development, QA, and product teams to streamline releases and incident response processes

Kennedy Pearce places Heads of DevOps with strong technical leadership, strategic vision, and a proven track record in scaling DevOps practices for high-performance engineering organisations.

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