DevOps Lead (VOIS) Vodafone

About this Role

• Lead the design, implementation, and ongoing optimisation of CI/CD pipelines to support frequent, reliable software releases.
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code to enable scalable, resilient, and secure platforms.
• Foster strong collaboration between software development, QA, operations, architecture, and product teams to remove silos and improve delivery outcomes.
• Provide technical leadership, coaching, and guidance to DevOps team members, supporting their professional growth.
• Lead incident response, crisis management, and service restoration activities, ensuring minimal business and customer impact.
• Own root cause analysis and drive preventive actions to reduce recurring incidents and improve system reliability.
• Implement and manage monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions to ensure high availability and performance.
• Proactively identify risks, bottlenecks, and performance issues, driving continuous improvement initiatives.
• Govern and enforce security, compliance, and operational best practices across DevOps and SRE processes.
• Engage with vendors and internal stakeholders to deliver effective technical solutions aligned to business priorities.

Who you are

• An experienced DevOps professional with a strong background in leading teams within complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Comfortable working in international, distributed teams with excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Highly organised, with the ability to prioritise multiple initiatives and deliver against tight timelines.
• Technically proficient across Linux/Unix and Windows environments and major cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Experienced with containerisation and orchestration technologies including Docker and Kubernetes, OpenShift, or Helm.
• Skilled in CI/CD tooling (for example Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub, GoCD) and infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
• Familiar with automation and scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or Shell.
• Knowledgeable in monitoring and observability tools including Grafana, Zabbix, Dynatrace, Splunk, or similar.
• A collaborative leader with strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.

What's in it for you

• The opportunity to lead critical DevOps and automation initiatives that directly impact large-scale enterprise platforms.
• Exposure to global teams, technologies, and transformation programmes within Vodafone Group.
• A collaborative environment that values innovation, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing.
• The chance to influence operational excellence, reliability, and customer experience at scale.

What skills you will learn

• Advanced DevOps leadership in complex, multi-technology environments.
• Deepened expertise in cloud-native architectures and automation at scale.
• Enhanced incident, problem and service reliability management capabilities.
• Stronger stakeholder engagement and cross-functional collaboration skills.