what we need! We are looking for a Head of DevOps and Security to own the strategy and standards for the function that keeps our cloud infrastructure fast, reliable, and secure. You'll manage the DevOps team lead, giving direction on architecture, priorities, and technical bar while they run the team's day-to-day work. Alongside that, you'll be hands-on with security operations that today sit with SecOps, acting as our internal CISO-adjacent voice on cloud risk, compliance, and incident response. You'll be the person engineering leadership turns to when infrastructure and security decisions need to move fast without cutting corners Responsibilities: DevOps leadership and infrastructure Manage the DevOps team lead: set direction, priorities, and the technical bar for the team, and support their growth as a manager Own our cloud infrastructure and architecture (multi-cloud), including provisioning, scaling, and cost governance Drive CI/CD, release processes, and deployment reliability so engineers can ship confidently Own observability and incident response tooling, ensuring issues are caught early and resolved fast Introduce and evaluate new cloud technologies and tools to improve delivery, scalability, and availability Partner with R&D, product, and IT leadership to align infrastructure decisions with business needs Own the R&D budget: plan and track spend, prioritize investment across infrastructure, tooling, and security, and report on it to leadership Security operations and compliance Operate and enhance security monitoring and incident response platforms (SIEM, SOAR) Analyse system and application telemetry to detect, investigate, and respond to suspicious activity Implement and maintain secure configurations across cloud environments and CI/CD pipelines Review and prioritize findings from application and infrastructure security tools, and drive remediation with engineering Own audit readiness and compliance efforts (SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar fra