Full-Time
Lead DevOps Engineer
Site Reliability
Posted on 9/10/2026
Phoenix Group
51-200 employees
Life insurance group managing heritage books
Compensation Overview
£60k - £80k/yr
London, UK + 3 more
More locations: Edinburgh, UK | Telford, UK | Birmingham, UK
Hybrid
Hybrid working is required; specific office-day frequency is not stated.
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- Significant experience as a DevOps Lead, Senior DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer or hands-on technical lead.
- A proactive, self-starting approach, with evidence of identifying issues, shaping solutions and delivering improvements without heavy direction.
- Strong practical Azure experience, including Azure DevOps, Azure API Management or comparable API platform capabilities.
- Hands-on expertise in Terraform, GitHub, GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipeline design, deployment automation and release support.
- Practical knowledge of incident management, problem management, root-cause analysis and operational readiness.
- Awareness of Site Reliability Engineering principles and the ability to apply them pragmatically to DevOps and platform improvement work.
- Experience improving observability through monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, service-health dashboards and actionable telemetry.
- Experience improving resilience through failover, graceful degradation, recovery testing and practical reliability improvements.
- Understanding of deployment safety, release automation, progressive delivery, performance and reliability engineering techniques.
- Experience using or shaping AI-enabled engineering practices across the software development lifecycle, including AI-assisted coding, automated testing, code review, documentation and developer productivity improvements.
- Deliver immediate DevOps improvements across the Customer Digital Platform, focusing on practical engineering outcomes.
- Improve Azure API platform integration, cloud infrastructure, environment support and route-to-live activity.
- Strengthen CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Terraform and automated testing.
- Improve deployment safety, release readiness and operational readiness for customer-facing digital services.
- Apply Site Reliability Engineering principles to improve availability, recoverability, monitoring and incident learning.
- Strengthen monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting and service-health dashboards across digitally connected workloads.
- Reduce single points of failure and improve failover, degradation handling and recovery testing.
- Embed reliability, security, performance and operational-readiness expectations into engineering delivery.
- Support major incidents, post-incident reviews and root-cause analysis, ensuring improvement actions are owned and delivered.
- Use DORA, availability, recovery and operational metrics to identify risks and evidence progress.
- Enable practical AI adoption across the software development lifecycle, including developer tooling, code quality, testing, documentation and delivery-flow improvements.
- Work with strategic partners, third parties and other suppliers to improve DevOps capability, technical escalation, service improvement and knowledge transfer.
- Coach engineers in modern engineering practices, automation and AI-enabled delivery where it improves quality and throughput.
- Work across internal squads and with strategic partners, third parties, service, architecture and security teams to improve Azure API platform change, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, deployment safety, release readiness, monitoring, alerting and recovery capability.
Phoenix Group handles both ongoing and closed life insurance and pensions businesses. Its open brands include SunLife and Standard Life, while its core strength lies in managing heritage (closed) books of business that are no longer open to new customers, providing administration and policy servicing for those portfolios. The company operates offices across the UK and has activities in Dublin and Frankfurt, giving it a broad geographic footprint. Its approach centers on maintaining long-standing policies and ensuring reliable service for customers, with a strong emphasis on being a good employer and community partner. Distinguishing factors include specialized expertise in closed books, scale across multiple markets, and a reputation as a top employer. The main goal is to look after colleagues, customers, and communities while delivering value from both open and heritage life and pension book administration.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Founded
1782
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- July 2026 loss narrowed to $10.0 million from $81.2 million in Q1.
- Ethiopia's 30MW hydropower facility added 1.9 EH/s and expands low-cost capacity.
- Europe AI demand supports Phoenix's leased-infrastructure model with enterprise and neocloud tenants.
What critics are saying
- Q2 2026 revenue fell to $19.0 million from $29.1 million year-over-year.
- Q2 2026 gross revenue remained $19.0 million, while adjusted EBITDA stayed negative.
- Bitcoin mining exposure ties results to weaker token prices and volatile power economics.
What makes Phoenix Group unique
- Phoenix Group already operates 550MW across UAE, Oman, North America, Ethiopia.
- May 2026 DC Max pact targets 1GW European-Gulf AI and HPC capacity.
- It secured Lyon land, permits, grid connection, and power before July 2026 construction.
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Benefits
Health Insurance
401(k) Retirement Plan
Unlimited Paid Time Off
Life Insurance
Disability Insurance
Flexible Work Hours
Company News
43 billion dirhams profits of 24 listed companies in first half with 4.7% growth 26 July 2026 17:38 pm | Last update: 26 July 17:44 2026 2 minutes read Twenty-four companies and banks listed on the UAE financial markets achieved total net profits of about 43.12 billion dirhams during the first half of 2026, with an annual growth of approximately 4.7%, driven mainly by the strong performance of major banks, which captured the largest share of profits, while several companies recorded a significant decline in their financial results compared to the same period last year. Emirates NBD topped the list of the most profitable institutions, with profits of 12.9 billion dirhams, up 3%, followed by First Abu Dhabi Bank with profits of 10.73 billion dirhams, and then Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, which recorded strong growth of 34%, raising its profits to 6.737 billion dirhams. The combined profits of the three banks amounted to about 30.4 billion dirhams, equivalent to about 70% of the total profits of the 24 institutions, confirming the continued leadership of major banks in the profitability of listed companies during the period. Dubai Islamic Bank came in fourth place with profits of 3.736 billion dirhams, while Commercial Bank of Dubai recorded profits of 1.716 billion dirhams, and National Bank of Ras Al Khaimah achieved profits of 1.71 billion dirhams, up 24.7%. Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (du) also achieved net profits of 1.63 billion dirhams, up 12.6%, while Bank AlSalam - Sudan recorded profits of 1.057 billion dirhams, a decline of 25.23% compared to the first half of 2025. Banking growth The results showed strong performance for a number of other banks, as profits of Sharjah Islamic Bank rose by 15.3% to 803.9 million dirhams, while profits of Bank of Sharjah jumped by 35% to 362 million dirhams. Ajman Bank also recorded a net profit after tax of 246 million dirhams, up 1%, while profits of Arab Union Bank reached 201 million dirhams, down 3.23%. In contrast, profits of Phoenix Group declined by 50% to 334.3 million dirhams, compared to 671 million dirhams in the first half of last year, and profits of National Bank of Umm Al Quwain fell by 13.5% to 271 million dirhams. Variation in companies As for companies, Taaleem Holdings achieved profits of 177.56 million dirhams, up 2.9%, and profits of Al Ittihad Real Estate increased by 26.16% to 18.37 million dirhams. Emirates Mobility recorded profits of 144.6 million dirhams, down 9%, and Abu Dhabi National Hotels' profits declined by 63.2% to 102.4 million dirhams, while ADNH Catering's profits fell by 18.9% to 60 million dirhams. In contrast, EasyLease recorded strong growth in net profits of 38.2% to 44.9 million dirhams, while Palms Sports' profits reached 43 million dirhams, down 4%, and Ras Al Khaimah National Insurance's profits rose by 19% to 28.6 million dirhams. Dubai Taxi recorded a decline in net profits, which reached 61.1 million dirhams during the first half of the year, compared to 189 million dirhams in the same period of 2025, and profits of Rabco Investment fell by 11.4% to 9.88 million dirhams. Dubai Financial Market
Phoenix Group, a crypto and cloud mining services company with a market cap of AED4.06 billion, recently announced a partnership with DC Max to develop an 18-megawatt AI data centre in Lyon, France. The company generated $24.3 million in revenue during Q1 2026. Despite solid liquidity management, with short-term assets significantly exceeding liabilities, Phoenix remains unprofitable. Losses have increased at 51.9% annually over the past five years, with a negative return on equity of -36.05%. Meanwhile, Hily Holding PJSC, which manages securities portfolios across Gulf countries with a market cap of AED241.20 million, shows satisfactory debt management with a net debt to equity ratio of 22.8%, though the pre-revenue company faces declining sales.
Phoenix Group makes AI data center pivot into Europe. May 14, 2026, 5:12am PDT A new 18MW data center in Lyon, France is being developed by Phoenix Group, an Abu Dhabi-based Bitcoin miner that told Semafor last year it was pivoting to small-scale AI infrastructure. The push into Europe comes as demand for AI computing capacity outpaces supply. The unit of International Holding Company - which is led by UAE National Security Advisor Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed - is partnering with French firm DC Max on the project. The group has acquired land, permits, and power, and expects to start construction in July. The deal is part of a broader aim to develop more than 1 gigawatt of capacity in Europe and the Gulf, at a cost of some $8 billion, according to Phoenix. It already operates 550 megawatts of capacity across East Africa, North America, Oman, and the UAE.
Phoenix Group of Abu Dhabi begins construction on an 18 MW AI data center in france. Phoenix Group PLC (ADX: PHX), a worldwide digital infrastructure operator and IHC portfolio business with its headquarters in Abu Dhabi, has announced a strategic alliance with DC Max to build its first AI data center in Europe, an 18MW facility in Lyon. The action represents Phoenix's official entry into the European AI infrastructure sector and is part of the company's larger plan to expand into high-performance computing and digital infrastructure. The project will be the first implementation of Phoenix's European Data Center Platform, a scalable platform aimed at delivering more than 1 GW of combined high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) capacity across Europe and the GCC. Phoenix's goal of creating a massive global AI infrastructure platform will be accelerated by the agreement, which will grant Phoenix privileged access to DC Max's development pipeline, which is believed to be worth $8 billion. Phoenix affirmed that it had already obtained the property for the Lyon project, along with the necessary permits, grid connection, and power. Delivery is anticipated between the fourth quarter of 2027 and the first quarter of 2028, with construction starting in July 2026.
Phoenix Group, an Abu Dhabi-based digital infrastructure operator, has partnered with DC Max to develop an 18MW AI data centre in Lyon, France. The project marks the first deployment of Phoenix's European Data Center Platform, targeting over 1GW of combined AI and HPC capacity across Europe and the GCC. The partnership addresses surging European AI compute demand through a repeatable development model backed by a pipeline exceeding 1GW, valued at approximately $8 billion. DC Max contributes site origination and grid access expertise, whilst Phoenix provides capital and operational scale. Lyon was selected for its industrial infrastructure, robust electrical grid and lower land costs compared to Paris. Phoenix Group, an IHC portfolio company listed on ADX, currently operates over 550MW of capacity across the UAE, Oman, North America and Ethiopia.