Overview

DevOps Specialist | Senior Recruitment Consultant at SR2 | Socially Responsible Recruitment | Certified B Corporation

Location: North Bristol — hybrid (2–3 days per week onsite)

Salary: Up to £70,000 + annual bonus

Role

As a hands-on IT lead, you’ll step into a small team, helping to mentor and manage 2 junior engineers. You\'ll take ownership of day-to-day operations, and quickly lift the team’s technical capability, especially around security and cloud hardening as the business scales.

What you’ll be doing

• Line-manage and mentor two junior IT support engineers
• Own operational delivery: ensure reliable, secure, cloud-only services and remove pressure from the team by taking hands-on responsibility.
• Review the current cloud estate and produce clear technical recommendations for the Head of IT to prioritise improvements.
• Implement and champion ITSM best practices (incident, problem, change) and improve ways of working across the team.
• Produce runbooks, documentation and technical standards to reduce firefighting and enable consistent, repeatable operations.

Who we’re looking for

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in IT/engineering roles, with demonstrable hands-on operational experience.
• Experience managing or mentoring small teams and providing technical leadership is ideal.
• Strong cloud experience - managing cloud-only environments and applying security/compliance controls - They use Azure
• Comfortable with ITSM frameworks and operational discipline; you know what ‘good’ looks like and can put it in place.
• Practical, pragmatic problem-solver who can both do the technical work and advise senior stakeholders.
• Able to work in the office 2–3 days per week (North Bristol) and collaborate with international colleagues.
• Competitive pay & an annual performance bonus
• Regular pay reviews, with employer-provided life cover.
• Flexibility: You can plan your day around your life and what works for you!
• Generous leave allowance (25 days plus public holidays) and the option to purchase more
• Enhanced parental leave provisions.
• A generous contributory pension scheme with employer contributions.
• Wellbeing support and practical incentives like a cycle-to-work scheme, discount on gyms, restaurants and retail.
• Dedicated training budgets and learning support to back your career progression.
• A collaborative culture with formal recognition and reward for high performance and the right behaviours.

Additional information

Please note: To be considered for this role, you need to live within a commutable distance of Bristol. Unfortunately, this role does not offer sponsorship

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology

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