Director of DevOps

My client's advanced engineering organisation is looking to add a Principal / Director - DevOps / Engineering Infrastructure to support the scaling and modernisation of engineering productivity, automation, and infrastructure across complex software and hardware development environments.

This role is focused on building scalable engineering systems, improving developer productivity, modernising CI/CD and validation workflows, and enabling globally distributed engineering teams working across next-generation compute, graphics, AI, and embedded platform technologies.

This is not a generic enterprise IT or cloud operations role.

You will operate at the intersection of engineering infrastructure, developer enablement, automation, and platform engineering - helping create scalable, reliable, and highly automated environments supporting complex R&D and product engineering organisations.

Principal / Director - DevOps / Engineering Infrastructure Role & Responsibilities:

Define and drive engineering infrastructure and DevOps strategy across the organisation

Improve developer productivity, engineering velocity, and automation maturity

Lead CI/CD, build, validation, and release infrastructure initiatives across large-scale engineering environments

Support scalable tooling and infrastructure for globally distributed software and hardware engineering teams

Drive modern platform engineering and developer enablement practices

Collaborate with software, architecture, platform, verification, and infrastructure teams

Support AI-assisted engineering workflows, observability, and engineering automation initiatives

Improve infrastructure scalability, reliability, release quality, and operational efficiency

Help establish best practices around engineering systems, automation, platform operations, and infrastructure governance

Strong experience across DevOps, Platform Engineering, Engineering Infrastructure, or Developer Enablement

Proven experience improving engineering productivity and CI/CD maturity within complex engineering organisations

Strong experience with Kubernetes, Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD systems, automation frameworks, and Linux-based environments

Experience supporting large-scale software or product-engineering teams

Strong understanding of scalable build, test, integration, and deployment systems

Experience across observability, monitoring, automation, and operational excellence practices

Ability to operate at both strategic and hands-on technical levels

Strong communication and stakeholder management capability across distributed/global teams

Semiconductor, AI, embedded systems, HPC, or complex R&D environment experience is highly desirable

Not isolated infrastructure administration - this is focused on engineering enablement, developer productivity, and scalable R&D infrastructure

Why This Role

Ownership of a critical and growing engineering capability within the organisation

Opportunity to modernise engineering infrastructure at scale

Direct influence on developer productivity, automation, and engineering velocity

Highly technical environment with real organisational impact

Opportunity to shape the future of engineering systems supporting advanced compute, graphics, AI, and embedded platform development

Salary and Package:

£150,000 - £190,000 base salary (depending on level and experience)

30% bonus

Total compensation: £195,000 - £247,000+

Flexible / hybrid working model

Pension

Private medical

Life assurance

Income protection

Training and development