Senior Dev Ops Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer Reporting to: Head of Software Excellence Location: UK Role Objectives Drive DevOps Excellence by fostering, teaching, and embedding DevOps best practices across Hays projects, ensuring teams adopt consistent engineering, automation, deployment, and operational standards. Provide Technical Leadership and Mentorship by acting as a senior coach and trusted advisor to DevOps Engineers, supporting capability development through hands-on guidance, reviews, knowledge sharing, and best-practice frameworks. Ensure SDLC Governance and Compliance by auditing projects against Hays SDLC standards, driving adherence to quality gates, security controls, documentation requirements, traceability standards, and audit-ready delivery practices. Own Global DevOps Tooling and Standards by designing, implementing, and maintaining shared platforms, CI/CD frameworks, automation capabilities, reusable templates, and engineering patterns that enable scalable and efficient software delivery. Champion Continuous Improvement by identifying delivery bottlenecks, promoting automation, improving engineering maturity, and driving the adoption of modern Agile and DevOps ways of working across the organisation. Build Strategic Cross-Functional Partnerships by collaborating closely with Solution Architecture, Infrastructure, Security, Data, QA and Testing, Product, and Delivery teams to align engineering practices, non-functional requirements, and operational readiness. Promote ..... full job details .....