DevOps Team Lead - Development Platform

Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions, enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed in the right ways, all more confidently and more often—that’s what we call the courage to thrive. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.Bank, Elavon is committed to building the platforms and ecosystems that help over 1.5 million customers around the world to achieve their financial goals—no matter what they need. From transaction processing to customer service, to driving innovation and launching new products, we’re building a range of tailored payment solutions powered by the latest technology. As part of our team, you can explore what motivates and energizes your career goals: partnering with our customers, our communities, and each other.We actively uphold transparent and fair hiring practices that support individual opportunity, inclusive culture, and career mobility across all levels of our organisation.We offer meaningful opportunities for growth, a culture of inclusion, and a strong commitment to transparency and integrity in everything we do.Job DescriptionDevOps Team Lead - Development PlatformAs a DevOps Team Lead, you will manage a cross-location team while driving CI/CD modernization, infrastructure reliability, and DevOps adoption for a Java/Springboot development department. You'll combine people management with hands-on proficiency in Jenkins, ArgoCD, AWS/Kubernetes, Terraform, and DevSecOps/GitOps practices. Main dutiesLine Management of a cross location team (onsite / nearshore)People development, performance, knowledge and skills managementOptimizing team ways of workingFostering a sense of ownership and collaboration with other department teamsUnderstanding development teams needs and designing CI/CD solutions (Java/Springboot stack)Driving observability, reliability and software development technologies adoption in the departmentMaintaining, architecting and evolving our development environment to improve efficiency and productivityCollaboration with ops team on technology adoption in higher environmentsOwning, improving and architecting build pipelinesEnsuring maintenance of our Jenkins clusterProactively coordinating with tech leadership and peersBreaking down work programs into phases and actionable work itemsDriving refinements, prioritizing workArbitrage of project work VS ad-hoc requestsRoadmap planningAbout youMust haveExperience managing senior Individual contributors across locationsProven track record of onboarding and adapting to new technologiesStrong ownership mindset with effective problem‑solving capabilitiesExperience building/packaging JVM based projects with a focus on security complianceHands‑on Jenkins experience: shared libraries, declarative/scripted pipelines, Job DSLProficient in GitLab code hosting and CI/CD practicesExperience with containers and container orchestration systemsExperience with IaC, cloud computingExperience with an observability stackNice to haveJava/Springboot projects experienceGitOps proficiency with ArgoCD (ApplicationSets, sync policies, multi-environment promotion)AWS (EKS, EC2, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, S3) with production-grade reliability experienceKubernetes workload management, Helm/Helmfile chart authoring, Docker image best practicesTerraform module development and state management for AWS infrastructureMonitoring with CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK; Proficiency with secrets management using External Secrets Operator (ESO) with AWS Secrets Manager/SSM.Bank location three (3) or more days per week.Bank is committed to fair, equitable, and transparent compensation practices in line with local regulatory and legal requirements. Our total rewards approach is designed to attract, retain, and support top talent while ensuring equal pay for work of equal value.We offer a market-competitive compensation package that includes:Performance-based incentives for eligible employees (as defined by relevant plan rules), awarded through transparent, objective criteria that recognize both individual and company performance.Inclusive equitable benefits that are accessible to all employees and focused around our 3 main pillars of financial wellbeing, health & wellness).Continuous development opportunities including training, education support, and career progression pathways based on inclusive and transparent criteria.Employee recognition programs that celebrate achievements and milestones for all.We regularly review our compensation and benefits to ensure they remain competitive, inclusive, and responsive to employee needs and market trends. Further details of the compensation package will be provided upon application.We encourage candidates to explore the full value of our offer, including monetary and non-monetary benefits, at Employee benefits and development | U.SummaryLocation: London, United KingdomType: Full time