Operations Engineering Lead
WTW · EC3M7DQ · posted 19 days ago
Going rate £51,900UK median £53,064
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2127Engineering project managers and project engineers
Going rate for this occupation: £51,900 · UK median pay £53,064
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Where this salary sits
- UK pay for this occupation
- This role£56,475 to £74,271estimated
- Going rate£51,900
- UK median£53,064
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| Percentile | Pay |
|---|---|
| 10th | £35,680 |
| 25th | £43,175 |
| 50th | £53,064 |
| 75th | £67,463 |
| Going rate | £51,900 |
| UK median | £53,064 |
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- Occupation is eligible for Skilled Worker
- Estimated salary clears the going rate
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Ready to shape the infrastructure that powers engineering at scale? As our Engineering Lead - Infrastructure Operations, you'll lead the platforms, tooling, and operations that keep our teams shipping safely and efficiently.
Here at Cushon by WTW, we like to do things a bit differently… our mission is to help as many people as possible to get comfortable with their finances. Our vision is to bring tech revolution to the financial services industry.
We are looking for an Engineering Lead Infrastructure Operations to provide technical leadership for our platform operations team. You will help set direction for shared infrastructure and engineering operations, the production hosting, security perimeter, release pipelines, observability, and developer tooling that every engineering squad depends on to ship safely. This is a role that includes Line Management responsibility for your team of 5-7 Engineers with the assistance of an assigned Engineering Manager.
The Role
Delivery & technical leadership
Lead delivery of complex infrastructure and platform initiatives, managing dependencies& removing blockers. Define and evolve the DevOps and infrastructure strategy, ownership model, and team boundaries. Collaborate with Engineering Leads to drive innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement. Enhance engineering practices across CI/CD, releases, incident management, and operational readiness. Balance delivery priorities with technical debt, security requirements, and operational responsibilities. Foster collaboration and alignment on shared platform and infrastructure initiatives.
Infrastructure, reliability & security
Lead the evolution of deployment pipelines and system reliability across our monorepos and legacy platform (CircleCI, NX, Docker) Guide AWS cloud strategy - hosting, networking, scalability, performance, and cost-efficiency across production environments Oversee Infrastructure as Code practices (e.g. Terraform) and ensure environments are consistent, auditable, and secure Shape monitoring, observability and alerting across the engineering organisation (e.g. Datadog, CloudWatch) so issues are detected and resolved before customers are impacted. Lead incident management practices - on-call, triage, escalation, post-incident reviews, and runbook qualityChampion security best practices - IAM, WAF, encryption, VPC configuration, and compliance with industry and regulatory standards
People & developer experience
Coach and mentor Operations Engineers, fostering technical leadership, delivery excellence, and strong operational practices. Remain hands-on when needed, contributing to designs, code, configuration, and runbooks while empowering the team to take ownership. Enhance developer experience through self-service tools, streamlined environments, improved documentation, and effective onboarding.
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