Lead DevOps Engineer

At Cencora / PharmaLex, you’ll join mature engineering teams working on meaningful platforms that support global pharma consulting services. You’ll have the opportunity to work on interesting technical challenges, influence platform direction, and drive improvements across infrastructure, delivery, automation, and engineering practices — all within an environment that values collaboration, quality, and sustainable pace. We are hiring a Lead DevOps Engineer to own and lead our DevOps capability.

Responsibilities

Define and drive the DevOps vision using Agile best practices; Set direction, standards, and engineering best practices for the team; Lead the design of scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure and delivery pipelines; Build, improve, and maintain CI/CD pipelines across multiple applications and services; Own and evolve Azure-based cloud infrastructure; Lead in a Kubernetes-first environment, ensuring resilient and scalable platform operations; Drive automation and advocate for shift-left ways of working; Align DevOps initiatives with engineering, product, and business goals; Mentor engineers, support knowledge sharing, and help develop team capability; Promote high-quality engineering across teams; Facilitate strong collaboration between technical and non-technical stakeholders

Requirements

Significant experience in DevOps, Cloud, or Platform Engineering roles; Experience in a technical leadership or team lead capacity; Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, including VMs, networking, storage, AKS, App Services, and Key Vault; Deep, hands-on Kubernetes experience in production; Strong experience with containerisation in real-world engineering environments; Strong infrastructure-as-code experience, especially Terraform and Helm; Strong CI/CD experience, ideally with Azure DevOps; Coding or scripting ability in at least one of: Golang, Python, PowerShell, or Bash; Strong understanding of networking, security, and cloud architecture; Experience working in cross-functional engineering teams; Familiarity with observability platforms; Experience working across a broad application landscape; Comfortable balancing technical leadership with hands-on delivery; Thrive in a fast-moving environment with multiple applications, services, and priorities; Credibility and experience to lead in a business where Kubernetes is heavily embedded; Enjoy enabling other engineers and improving the overall developer experience

Nice to have

Cloudflare / Edge / WAF experience; LLM experience

Benefits

Healthy work/life balance