About the Role
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<p>Cloud/DevOps Manager</p>
<p> Richmond, London (Hybrid – typically 2 days per week), 9 day a working week a fortnight</p>
<p> £90,000 – £105,000 + discretionary bonus</p>
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<p>A fast-growing pet nutrition and technology business is looking for a Cloud Infrastructure Manager to help shape the next phase of its cloud platform and infrastructure capability.</p>
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<p>Over the past 18 months, the technology leadership team has stabilised a complex infrastructure environment with the support of external partners. With those foundations in place, the focus is now on building a stronger internal DevOps and cloud capability and improving the way infrastructure supports engineering teams.</p>
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<p>This role combines technical leadership with hands-on engineering, leading a small DevOps team while helping guide the architecture, reliability, and security of the organisation’s AWS environment.</p>
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<p>You’ll work closely with software engineering teams to improve platform architecture, infrastructure practices, and cloud reliability, while helping define a clear path forward for the infrastructure function.</p>
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<p>Key responsibilities</p>
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<li>Lead and support a small DevOps / infrastructure team</li>
<li>Improve cloud architecture, resilience, and operational reliability</li>
<li>Drive best practices around Infrastructure as Code and automation</li>
<li>Partner with engineering teams to improve ways of working across platform and development</li>
<li>Support the organisation’s security maturity journey, including Cyber Essentials+ and longer-term ISO27001 goals</li>
<li>Help shape the future roadmap for cloud infrastructure as the business continues to scale</li>
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<p>Tech environment</p>
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<li>AWS</li>
<li>Terraform</li>
<li>CI/CD and cloud-native infrastructure</li>
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<p>The team are looking for a strong cloud generalist with experience across DevOps and platform engineering. This role would suit a Senior or Lead DevOps / Platform Engineer looking to move into management, or someone already leading a small team who still enjoys being technically involved.</p>
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<p>Package & benefits</p>
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<li>£90k–£105k salary + discretionary bonus</li>
<li>Hybrid working (typically 2 days per week in Richmond)</li>
<li>9-day fortnight – the company closes every other Friday</li>
<li>Private health insurance</li>
<li>Work abroad up to 2 weeks every 6 months</li>
<li>Enhanced parental leave and learning & development support</li>
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