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About the Role
We are looking for a Cloud Architect & DevOps Lead to shape and strengthen our cloud and DevOps delivery. This hands-on leadership role involves designing secure, scalable, and cost-effective infrastructure, developing CI/CD pipelines, automating environments, and ensuring effective monitoring and support. You will lead DevOps practices, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate across teams to align delivery with business goals.
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain scalable, secure, and cost-optimised multi-cloud solutions using AWS and Azure, evaluating and integrating emerging cloud technologies.
- Implement advanced CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD and GitHub Actions, incorporating testing, monitoring and rollback mechanisms.
- Create and manage Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and Ansible, automating provisioning across development, testing and production.
- Establish advanced monitoring and alerting using AWS CloudWatch and Azure Monitor, define incident response strategies, conduct root cause analysis and provide P1/P2 support for critical infrastructure.
- Develop and enforce security practices covering IAM policies, encryption and Centrica-defined standards, conducting periodic security reviews and audits while supporting cost optimisation and efficient resource utilisation.
- Lead DevOps practices across teams, providing guidance to junior engineers and establishing consistent standards, best practices and processes.
- Collaborate with developers, QA and operations to align with business goals, communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, and apply strong problem-solving skills in a fast-paced environment.
Requirements
- Significant cloud architecture and DevOps engineering experience, ideally gained within Commodity Trading, Investment Banking or Financial Services environments.
- Proven leadership experience within DevOps and/or cloud infrastructure roles.
- Deep expertise across AWS and Azure.
- Strong Infrastructure as Code (IaC) capability, with hands-on experience using Terraform, CloudFormation and Ansible.
- Practical experience with DevOps and CI/CD tooling, including Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD and GitHub Actions.
- Excellent problem-solving skills to work effectively and confidently in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to explain technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
Skills
- AWS
- Azure
- DevOps
- CI/CD
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Terraform
- CloudFormation
- Ansible
- Jenkins
- GitLab CI/CD
- GitHub Actions
- AWS CloudWatch
- Azure Monitor
- IAM policies
- Encryption
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Lead
Education Level
- AWS/Azure Solutions Architect certification
- Kubernetes Certified Administrator (CKA) certification
- DevOps Engineer Professional certification
Salary/Compensations
- Generous market salary
Benefits
- Car Allowance program
- 15% Employee Energy Allowance
- Comprehensive pension plan
- Fully-funded company healthcare plan
- 25-day holiday allowance plus public holidays
- Option to purchase up to 5 extra holiday days
- Flexible benefits including tech treats, eco-friendly car leases, and travel insurance
About the Company
- We are a family of brands revolutionising how we power the planet, energising a greener, fairer future by creating an energy system that doesn’t rely on fossil fuels.
- Centrica Energy is a global renewable energy trading company that helps move energy from source to use, powering businesses, homes, and societies as they transition to a new sustainable energy future.
- We are 21,000 colleagues working together to create a greener, fairer future, changing how energy is made, stored, moved, sold and mended.
- We are a people place, prioritising the support of all our people's realities and offering total rewards for flexibility and support.
Equal Opportunity
- We are not a perfect place – but we’re a people place. Our priority is supporting all of the different realities our people face. Life is about so much more than work. We get it. That’s why we’ve designed our total rewards to give you the flexibility to choose what you need, when you need it, making sure that you and your family are supported not only financially, but physically and emotionally too.