Vetted on a call by a Wave consultant, not scraped. £120,000 and above.
Leads a 4-person DevOps team on a sensitive government programme at a large consultancy, on a project that scaled from 3 or 4 feature teams to about 25. AWS and EKS with Terraform, IAM and IRSA, Kafka on MSK, Kyverno and Cosign for supply chain, and CloudTrail, AWS Config and Security Hub on the compliance side. Spent years as a technical instructor for a hyperscale cloud provider, which is a decent proxy for depth.
Looking forNot actively looking, and says so. The team is winding down and that's the inflection point, so they'll move for the right people, problem and number rather than out of frustration.
How they came acrossTold us they're happy because they feel trusted and valued, which is a fair guide to what they'll need next. Solution-driven rather than attached to a particular technology, and comfortable in front of stakeholders.
AWS, EKS, Terraform · Kubernetes, Helm, OpenShift · Java, Spring Boot, Python · Kafka, Postgres, Kyverno
11 employers across 30 years, from analyst development at two investment banks through cloud platform vendors and a hyperscale cloud provider, now a large consultancy. Average tenure 2 years 3 months, longest stint 6 years.
Not actively on the market, so the approach has to be about the work and the people rather than a process, and availability isn't confirmed.
Bachelors in Computer Science, with AWS Solutions Architect, SysOps and Developer Associate certifications and the CKA.
Five years of Kubernetes, with the previous platform scaling to 100,000 pods at an asset management data business. Google Professional Cloud Architect certified plus Terraform Associate, working across GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform and Python with FastAPI on the backend. Led platform engineering with 3 to 4 software engineers alongside, owning architecture, release support and performance.
Looking forWants an architecture-led platform role in Kubernetes-heavy environments, ideally staying in the investment sector, with performance and scalability work at the centre. Wants to be in an office 5 days a week, which is unusual enough to be worth saying twice.
How they came acrossLeft the last job because the CEO was planning an exit and they'd rather start somewhere fresh than sit through a restructure with no upside in it for them. Straightforward about that reasoning, no spin on it.
Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Docker · GCP, AWS, IBM Cloud · Python, FastAPI, Bash · Prometheus, Grafana
4 employers in 7 years, from a Nordic IT consultancy through a sustainability data business and an asset management data platform, now a founding DevOps role at an AI startup. Average tenure 1 year 10 months.
Wants 5 days a week in an office and has only just started a founding role at an AI startup, so test both the timing and the reason for moving again.
Masters in Physics, a Russell Group university.
DevOps and SRE leadership across multi-cloud, on-prem and Kubernetes-heavy environments, owning infrastructure design, automation, security and CI/CD. The stack is broad and current: kubeadm and k3s, Calico, Longhorn, Istio, ArgoCD, Harness, Terraform and Bazel, with Prisma Cloud, Veracode, Trivy and Sysdig on security. Twenty-five years in and still building, including recent work with n8n, Graphiti and Ollama.
Looking forLooking for cloud-agnostic architecture and secure pipeline design, with technical leadership inside a small high-performing team. Available immediately.
How they came acrossPositions themselves as the bridge between engineering teams and senior management, and the career backs it up, having built and grown technology departments from nothing. We haven't got a detailed read on temperament from the call notes beyond that.
Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Helm, Terraform · AWS, Azure, GCP · Python, Bash · Istio, Grafana, Prometheus
7 employers across 25 years, from consumer electronics and healthcare technology into a large UK retail bank, a data privacy startup and now a data and analytics software business. Average tenure 2 years 5 months, longest stint 4 years 7 months.
At 180,000 this sits well above the rest of the band, and the CV is as much leadership as hands-on, so confirm which one the brief actually needs.
Sub-degree study in economics and finance, with ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus certifications.
Tell me which came closest and I recalibrate, then come back with 10 to 15 more inside 24 hours.
Show me the wider bank