Vetted on a call by a Wave consultant, not scraped. £90,000 to £100,000.
Spent the last year on platform standardisation, pushing golden path adoption across Terraform and CloudFormation, and owned the Datadog rollout including vendor management and licensing negotiation. Thirteen-plus years on CI/CD tooling across AWS, Azure and GCP, with three AWS associate certifications. Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions and a full observability set behind it.
Looking forMade redundant in March and available now. The priority is job security, specifically at least 6 months of stability after probation, and a progression path they can see. Wants to be part of a team building something rather than keeping lights on.
How they came acrossKeen to close quickly and said so directly. Eager rather than desperate, and engaged properly with the detail of the role we discussed rather than just agreeing with it.
Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, ArgoCD · AWS, Azure, GCP · Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana · Python, Bash
8 employers across 16 years, from ad technology and hosting into a legal technology startup, a consumer supplements brand, a live events business and now a non-profit membership organisation. Average tenure 1 year 4 months, longest stint 3 years 5 months.
Available immediately after a March redundancy, and job security is the stated priority, so anything short-term or contract-shaped won't land.
Bachelors in Electrical Engineering, with three AWS associate certifications.
Automation-first platform engineer who built internal developer portals with Backstage and Port at a previous scaleup, with DORA metrics on top. AWS and EKS, Terraform, ArgoCD, Karpenter, Helm and Kustomize, with policy as code through OPA and scanning via Snyk and Trufflehog. Came into DevOps from test automation and SDET work, which shows in how much of the pipeline ends up automated.
Looking forThe current place is vendor-heavy and slow with no roadmap worth the name, and they don't want to stagnate in it. Wants greenfield build work, automation-heavy, on a staff-level technical track. No management.
How they came acrossStrategic about timing and told us plainly they want to reach 6 months in the current job before it goes on the CV. Blunt about what they will and won't take, which makes them easy to place accurately.
AWS, EKS, Terraform, ArgoCD · Kubernetes, Helm, Karpenter, Crossplane · Backstage, Port · Python, Groovy, Bash
5 employers across 21 years, from a large industrial finance business into test automation and then platform engineering, most recently a cybersecurity company. Average tenure 2 years 9 months, longest stint 6 years 11 months.
Only about 4 months into the current job and openly timing the move around the 6 month mark, and they'll refuse anything management-track, vendor-heavy or in gambling.
Masters in Engineering Management.
Ten-plus years keeping Kubernetes platforms up during live broadcast, including Formula One, Formula E and a sports broadcaster's motorsport coverage, where a failure is visible to millions in real time. GitOps with FluxCD, Terraform and Helm across AWS EKS, with on-prem VMware and Rancher alongside. That hybrid on-prem and cloud combination is harder to find than either half on its own.
Looking forMade redundant and on 3 months of paid gardening leave to early November, with sign-off to leave early for the right job. Wants fully remote, a stable growing company, and would rather not carry a pager.
How they came acrossNo axe to grind about the last employer, which is refreshing when redundancy is the reason for the call. Running several processes at once but only on roles where the stack genuinely matches.
Kubernetes, EKS, Rancher, Helm · Terraform, Ansible, FluxCD · AWS, VMware · Prometheus, Grafana, Loki
5 employers across 22 years in broadcast and media technology plus energy technology, with the last stretch on broadcast infrastructure for motorsport. Average tenure 2 years 11 months, longest stint 5 years 1 month.
Would rather not be on call, which rules out a small team that needs rota cover, and there's no degree on file if that matters to the client.
No degree recorded. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure DevOps Professional and Foundations Associate 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