DevOps Engineering Manager

Overview

Executive Search at Direct Line (part of the Aviva Group) | Leadership Hiring | Talent Labs (formerly TheFirm) AmbassadorDLG is evolving. Across every part of our business, teams are embracing new opportunities and putting customers at the heart of everything they do. Whether you''re already part of DLG or thinking about joining us, you''ll have the chance not only to be recognised for your skills, but also to build on them and be empowered to do your very best.As part of our strategy to drive sustainable growth in Home, we’re looking for a

DevOps Engineering Manager

to lead a team responsible for building and maintaining scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure and deployment pipelines. You’ll play a key role in supporting the new Home Platform, driving automation and CI/CD maturity across cloud-native applications on AWS, while fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.Who You’ll Be Working WithYou’ll be part of a collaborative, inclusive, and technically diverse Engineering chapter. We value curiosity, ownership, and transparency. You’ll work closely with Platform Owners, Engineering Leads, and transformation teams to deliver business value at scale.What Else You’ll Be DoingFoster an inclusive, positive and supportive workplace culture which drives and maintains high employee engagement. Ensuring smooth execution of CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, Terraform, and JFrog. Oversee infrastructure-as-code deployments across AWS services (EC2, Fargate, EKS, RDS, S3, Glue). Optimise platform performance and costs, with regular monitoring and reporting. Champion DevSecOps practices including vulnerability scanning, secret management, and compliance automation in coordination with security function. Collaborate with engineering leads, architects, testing and delivery managers to align DevOps strategy with business goals. Manage platform reliability, observability, and incident response processes. Own operational runbooks, on-call rotations, and post-mortem processes. Drive adoption of new technologies and patterns through PoCs and technical evaluations. Ensure backup standards, tagging compliance, and exception handling across environments. Design, build, own, and run observability, dashboards, monitoring and alerting tooling such as AppDynamics, AWS CloudWatch and PagerDuty. Working in an Agile and regulated environment.What We’re Looking ForProven experience in DevOps leadership roles within agile environments.Good understanding of the Home business and its systems preferable.Strong understanding of AWS infrastructure and services.Good understanding of CI/CD tooling and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, GitHub) and scripting (Python, Shell).Experience with security tooling (JFrog Advanced Security, SAST, secret scanning).Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (AppDynamics, CloudWatch).Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.Ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and manage delivery timelines.Ways of WorkingHere at Direct Line Group, we recognise the importance of flexibility, not only in our personal lives but also in the way we work. Our mixed model way of working offers a ‘best of both worlds’ approach combining the best parts of home and office-working. This role will be based out of our office - c. 2-3 days per week.BenefitsWe recognise we wouldn’t be where we are today without our colleagues, that’s why we offer excellent benefits designed to suit your lifestyle.9% employer contributed pension – which you can opt out to take as a cash, taxable, benefit50% off home, motor and pet insurance plus free Green Flag breakdown coverAnnual performance related bonus – of upto 20%, dependent on personal and company performanceFree private medical coverOptional dental insurance30 days annual leave – plus bank holidaysEV car scheme allows all colleagues to lease a brand new electric or plug-in hybrid car in a tax efficient way.Employee discounts and cashbackPlus, many moreBe yourselfDirect Line Group is an equal opportunity employer, and we think diversity of background and thinking is a big strength in our people. We’re delighted to feature as one of the UK’s Top 50 Inclusive Employers and are committed to making our business an inclusive place to work, where everyone can be themselves and succeed in their careers.Seniority level

Mid-Senior levelEmployment type

Full-timeJob function

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