Job Description

Lead DevOps Engineer

* Contract (6-months)

* Remote Working

* Market Rates (c£525 to £575 per day)

The Opportunity

We are currently supporting a confidential public sector organisation in the search for an experienced Lead DevOps Engineer to join their technology function on an initial 6-month contract basis for a major central government project (Government Digital Services / GDS).

This is an excellent opportunity to lead the delivery and optimisation of cloud-native DevOps capabilities across AWS and Azure environments within a highly secure, mission-critical organisation supporting nationally important services.

The successful candidate will provide technical leadership across cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD and platform engineering initiatives, helping to drive operational resilience, scalability and modern engineering practices across complex enterprise environments.

Role and Responsibilities

* Lead the design, implementation and optimisation of DevOps and cloud engineering practices across AWS and Azure platforms

* Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation and CI/CD best practices across engineering teams

* Design and maintain scalable, resilient and secure cloud infrastructure environments

* Lead the development and optimisation of CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes

* Support containerised and cloud-native application deployments using Kubernetes and related technologies

* Work closely with architecture, security, development and operational teams to support platform reliability and scalability

* Champion DevOps culture, engineering standards and continuous improvement initiatives

* Implement monitoring, observability and alerting solutions across cloud platforms

* Support cloud migration, transformation and platform modernisation programmes

* Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, deployment and operational issues

* Provide mentoring and technical leadership to engineering teams

* Produce and maintain technical documentation, standards and operational procedures

Skills and Experience

* Strong commercial experience within DevOps, platform engineering or cloud infrastructure environments

* Proven experience working across both AWS and Azure cloud platforms

* Experience implementing monitoring, logging and observability solutions

* Strong understanding of cloud networking, security and resilience best practices

* Experience operating within enterprise-scale or highly regulated environments

* Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement and technical leadership capability

Strong expertise with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as:

* Terraform / CloudFormation / ARM Templates / Bicep

Strong CI/CD pipeline engineering experience using technologies such as:

* Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions / Jenkins / GitLab CI/CD

Hands-on experience with:

* Kubernetes / Docker / Container orchestration

Strong scripting and automation capability using:

* PowerShell / Bash / Python

NB: The successful candidate will be required to undergo a basic level of security clearance before undertaking the assignment (around two weeks’ lead-time).

Applications:

Please contact James here at ISR to learn more about our client and how they are leading the way in developing the next generation of technical solutions through innovation and transformational technology?