Director / Senior Director – DevOps / Engineering Infrastructure (Embedded / Systems) – UK / EU

Director / Senior Director – DevOps / Engineering Infrastructure (Embedded / Systems) – UK / EU – £180,000 – £200,000 base + 30% bonus

My client’s specialist engineering organisation is looking to add a Director / Senior Director – DevOps / Engineering Infrastructure to support the scaling of their global software and engineering capability.

This role is focused on modernising how software is built, tested, and deployed across complex engineering environments — particularly where embedded systems, hardware, and software intersect.

You will take ownership of engineering infrastructure, developer workflows, and CI/CD capability, ensuring teams can operate efficiently at scale.

Director / Senior Director – DevOps Role & Responsibilities:

• Define and lead engineering infrastructure strategy across global teams
• Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and testing frameworks
• Improve developer productivity and engineering workflows
• Introduce automation and scalable solutions across software development lifecycle
• Work closely with engineering, architecture, and product teams
• Integrate modern tooling, including AI-assisted workflows where appropriate
• Build and lead a high-performing DevOps / platform engineering function
• Ensure consistency and scalability across distributed engineering teams

Director / Senior Director – DevOps Essential Skills:

• Proven experience leading DevOps / engineering infrastructure at scale
• Strong background in:
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Build systems
  • Test automation
• Experience working in embedded, systems, or hardware-adjacent environments
• Ability to improve developer productivity and workflow efficiency
• Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills
• Experience working across global teams

What This Isn’t

• Not a pure cloud / SRE role
• Not IT infrastructure or support
• Not tooling-only — this is about end-to-end engineering productivity

Why This Role

• Ownership of a critical capability across the organisation
• Direct impact on engineering speed, quality, and scalability
• Opportunity to modernise and improve how engineering teams operate
• Senior leadership position with high visibility and influence

Salary and Package:

• £180,000 – £200,000 base salary
• 30% bonus
• Total compensation: £234,000 – £260,000
• Hybrid working model (UK / EU) – 3 DAYS ON SITE REQUIRED REGARDLESS OF LOCATION
• Pension
• Private medical
• Life assurance
• Income protection
• Training and development

My client can offer a 3-stage process consisting of a 1^st stage Video Call , 2^nd Stage Video Call and a 3rd Stage on-site Interview (meet the team and site tour). This process can be completed within 2-3 weeks (based on availability)