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Director DevOps Engineering Peterborough, UK About the Team: We are the RUN Platform Engineering team, within ADPs Small Business Services division. We are recognized as a leader in small business payroll, serving more than 900,000 clients and generating around $2billion in revenue. Our team is distributed between the US, UK, India, and is expanding into Brazil. Our mission is to build the RUN infrastructure and platform on the Azure Cloud, so we keep innovating, scaling, and providing outstanding payroll services to our clients! About the Role Lead the Build team within RUN Platform Engineering to modernize and evolve the software delivery ecosystem for the RUN Core platform. Drive cloud migration enablement, Infrastructure as Code, immutable infrastructure patterns, and DevOps engineering excellence while empowering application teams. Core Mission Define and execute a vision that accelerates delivery, increases platform reliability, and reduces toil through automation, enablement, standardization, and innovation. Key Responsibilities Strategic & Vision Set a vision for the team, own the roadmap and delivery outcomes, and align modernization with enterprise cloud migration strategy and security/compliance guardrails. Technical Leadership Evolve and modernize the .NET build framework, apply best practices for configuration management, drive reproducible infrastructure patterns, create golden image pipelines, standardize CI/CD templates and artifact versioning, champion IaC platform capabilities, enable database developers with automation, improve observability, update system documentation, and champion adoption of GenAI tools. Team & Delivery Lead, coach, and grow a crossfunctional Build engineering team, partner with Platform Engineering teams (DevOps, SRE, DBA), instill agile flow, foster platform enablement mindset, remove bottlenecks, and drive postmortem followthrough. Operational Excellence Reduce build/image lead time and variance, reduce direct engagement through enablement practices, and drive automation coverage for patching, hotfixes, code branch management, release, and rollback. Stakeholder Engagement Interface with application, program, project management, security, architecture, SRE, cloud, release management, and governance groups; translate requirements into a prioritized roadmap, track progress, provide updates, and manage change. Minimum Qualifications BS/BE in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent field. 7 years engineering (DevOps / Platform / SRE) with 23 years people leadership. Proven delivery of platform modernization and process optimization initiatives. Experience with onpremises and cloud ecosystems, infrastructure lifecycle, governance, IaC at scale (Terraform), CI/CD orchestration (Jenkins, Ansible). Strong scripting (PowerShell, Python, or Bash), observability and operational metrics implementation, and problemsolving skills. Experience with Packer image pipelines, security & compliance automation, database change automation (Liquibase), zerodowntime delivery, and GenAI tools. Governance of multienvironment artifact/version promotion and technical depth balanced with pragmatic decisionmaking. Tooling Landscape Microsoft .NET, Microsoft SQL Server, Azure, Terraform, Packer, Jenkins, Ansible, Key Vault, WinRM/PowerShell DSC, Liquibase, Git, artifact repositories, Splunk, Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, Docker, Kubernetes. Certifications (Nice to Have) Azure DevOps Engineer / Architect, Terraform Associate. Youll Love Working Here Because You Can Have courageous team collaboration encouraging difficult conversations, owner mindset, and constructive challenge. Deliver at epic scale create real user outcomes using strong judgment. Be surrounded by curious learners grow together with smart people in an agile, learning environment. Act like an owner & doer take on any challenge and solve complex problems. Give back to others support our community through ADPs philanthropic foundation. Join a company committed to equality and equity impact lasting change through our actions. We encourage associates to listen, stay agile, and learn from our mistakes. No tasks are beneath or too great for us. We are handson and willing to master our craft. Always do the right thing for our clients and our community and humbly give back to the community where we live and work. What are you waiting for? Apply today! Apply directly through the ADP portal. #J-18808-Ljbffr