DevOps Engineering Manager

Direct Line Group

  • London
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 1 day ago
DLG 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 with:You’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 doing:
  • Foster 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.
  • Designing, building, owning, and running observability, dashboards, monitoring and alerting tooling such as AppDynamics, AWS CloudWatch and PagerDuty.
  • Working in an Agile and regulated environment.
What we're looking for:
  • Proven 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, benefit
  • 50% off home, motor and pet insurance plus free Green Flag breakdown cover
  • Annual performance related bonus – of upto 20%, dependent on personal and company performance
  • Free private medical cover
  • Optional dental insurance
  • 30 days annual leave – plus bank holidays
  • EV car scheme allows all colleagues to lease a brand new electric or plug-in hybrid car in a tax efficient way.
  • Employee discounts and cashback
  • Plus, many more
We want everyone to get the most out of their time at DLG. Which is why we’ve looked beyond the financial rewards and created an offer that takes your whole life into account. Supporting our people to work at their best – whatever that looks like — and offering real choice, flexibility, and a greater work-life balance that means our people have time to focus on the things that matter most to them. Our benefits are about more than just the money you earn. They’re about recognising who you are and the life you live.Be 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.#LI-RM1#LI-Hybrid

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