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At Cencora, we are united in our responsibility to create healthier futures, and every person here is essential to us being able to deliver on that purpose. If you want to make a difference at the center of health, come join our innovative company and help us improve the lives of people and animals everywhere. Apply today!\nJob Details\nModern tech stack. Cloud-native platforms. Mature engineering teams. Interesting work. Healthy work/life balance.\nIfyou’relooking for a role where you can work with modern tools, help shape cloud-native platformsatscale, and join a team that combines strong technicalexpertisewith a genuinely supportive culture, this could be a great fit.\nAt Cencora /PharmaLex,you’lljoin mature engineering teams working on meaningful platforms that support global pharma consulting services.You’llhave 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.\nWe are hiring a Lead DevOps Engineer to own and lead our DevOps capability. This role can be mostly remote in the UK, with monthly travel to our Colchester office.\nAbout the role\nThis is a leadership role for someone who enjoys broad technical ownership and wants to make a visible impact across a fast-moving engineering estate.\nYou’lllead the DevOps function, helping teams ship software faster, safer, and more reliably by evolving our Azure infrastructure, strengthening our CI/CD pipelines, driving automation, and embedding DevOps and shift-left practices across theorganisation.\nA key part of this role is our heavily Kubernetes-based environment. We are looking for someone with strong, hands-on Kubernetes andcontainerisationexperience in production, who can lead confidently in anorganisationwhere Kubernetes is a core part of the platform.\nJust as importantly, we are looking for someone whose experience shows the right breadth of scope. This role suits somebody who is comfortable supporting many applications and services in a dynamic environment - not someone who has onlyspecialisedin one narrow area, and not someone who has moved too far away from hands-on technical leadership.\nWhatyou’llbe doing\nDefine and drive the DevOps vision using Agile best practices\n\nSet direction, standards, and engineering best practices for the team\n\nLead the design of scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure and delivery pipelines\n\nBuild, improve, andmaintainCI/CD pipelines across multiple applications and services\n\nOwn and evolve Azure-based cloud infrastructure\n\nLead in a Kubernetes-first environment, ensuring resilient and scalable platform operations\n\nDrive automation and advocate for shift-left ways of working\n\nAlign DevOps initiatives with engineering, product, and business goals\n\nMentor engineers, support knowledge sharing, and help develop team capability\n\nPromote high-quality engineering across teams\n\nFacilitate strong collaboration between technical and non-technical stakeholders\n\n.\nWhatwe’relooking for\nEssential\nSignificantexperincein DevOps, Cloud, or Platform Engineering roles\n\nExperienceina technicalleadership or team lead capacity\n\nStrong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, including VMs, networking, storage, AKS, App Services, and Key Vault\n\nDeep, hands-onKubernetesexperience in production\n\nStrong experience with containerisationin real-world engineering environments\n\nStrong infrastructure-as-code experience, especially Terraform and Helm\n\nStrong CI/CD experience, ideally with Azure DevOps\n\nCoding or scripting ability in at least one of: Golang, Python, PowerShell, or Bash\n\nStrong understanding of networking, security, and cloud architecture\n\nExperience working in cross-functional engineering teams\n\nFamiliarity with observability platforms\n\nYou’lllikely bea strong fit if you:\nHave experience working across a broad application landscape, rather than in one highly restricted area\n\nAre comfortable balancing technical leadership with hands-on delivery\n\nThrive in a fast-moving environment with multiple applications, services, and priorities\n\nHave the credibility and experience to lead in a business where Kubernetes is heavily embedded\n\nEnjoy enabling other engineers and improving the overall developer experience\n\nNice to have\nCloudflare / Edge / WAF experience\n\nLLM experience\n\nLocation\nCandidates must be basedin:\nThe United Kingdom, with ability to travel to Colchesteroccasionally\n\nWhat Cencora offers\nBenefit offerings outside the US may vary by country and will be aligned to local market practice. The eligibility and effective date may differ for some benefits and for team members covered under collective bargaining agreements.\nFull timeAffiliated Companies\nAffiliated Companies: PhlexGlobal LimitedEqual Employment Opportunity\nCencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.\nThe company’s continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.\nCencora is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the employment process which are consistent with legal requirements. If you wish to request an accommodation while seeking employment, please call 888.692.2272 or email . We will make accommodation determinations on a request-by-request basis. 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