DevOps Engineer - AWS or Azure

True North Consulting Group Ltd

Greater Manchester

Hybrid

GBP 39,000 - 65,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Job summary

True North Consulting Group Ltd is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer / DevOps Consultant for contract roles focusing on Azure and AWS cloud platforms. The role emphasizes automation, platform engineering, and cloud-native delivery across enterprise environments.

You will own CI/CD implementations, infrastructure as code, and mentoring engineers while supporting cloud migrations and platform modernisation initiatives. Hybrid UK-based work with travel to hubs may be required.

Qualifications

  • Experience with cloud platforms (Azure and AWS) in enterprise environments.
  • Strong automation and IaC background with Terraform and CI/CD tooling.
  • Ability to mentor engineers and drive DevOps best practices.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain cloud infrastructure platforms.
  • Develop and optimise CI/CD pipelines.
  • Implement Infrastructure as Code solutions.
  • Support highly available services and platform resilience.
  • Automate operational processes where possible.
  • Troubleshoot complex platform issues and mentor engineers.

Skills

DevOps Engineering
CI/CD Pipeline Development
Terraform
GitLab CI/CD
Azure
AWS
Infrastructure as Code
Linux Administration
Scripting & Automation
Agile Delivery
Monitoring & Observability
Platform Engineering

Tools

Terraform
Ansible
Prometheus
Grafana

Job description

Senior DevOps Engineer / DevOps Consultant | Contract | Azure & AWS Cloud Platforms

We're supporting multiple DevOps opportunities focused on building, enhancing and supporting large-scale cloud platforms within complex enterprise environments.

These roles are ideal for engineers who thrive on automation, infrastructure as code, platform engineering and cloud-native delivery. You'll work closely with product and engineering teams to design, build and maintain resilient, scalable platforms while driving DevOps best practices, CI/CD adoption and operational excellence.

You'll be expected to take ownership of technical challenges, contribute to platform strategy, mentor engineers and help shape the future direction of cloud infrastructure and data platforms.

Core Skills Required
  • DevOps Engineering
  • CI/CD Pipeline Development
  • Terraform
  • GitLab CI/CD
  • Azure and/or AWS
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
  • Linux / Unix Administration
  • Scripting & Automation
  • Agile Delivery (Scrum / Kanban)
  • Monitoring & Observability
  • Platform Engineering
Azure Data Platform Experience
  • Azure
  • Azure Data Factory
  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Azure Data Lake
  • Databricks
  • Kafka & Kafka Connect
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
AWS Platform Experience
  • AWS
  • EC2
  • ECS
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Cloud Migration
  • Infrastructure Automation
What You'll Be Doing
  • Building and maintaining cloud infrastructure platforms
  • Developing and optimising CI/CD pipelines
  • Implementing Infrastructure as Code solutions
  • Supporting highly available and resilient services
  • Automating operational processes wherever possible
  • Troubleshooting complex platform and infrastructure issues
  • Working with engineering teams to improve delivery practices
  • Supporting cloud migrations and platform modernisation initiatives
  • Mentoring engineers and promoting engineering best practicesContributing to proof of concepts, technical evaluations and innovation initiatives
Locations
  • Leeds
  • Manchester
  • Newcastle
  • Sheffield
  • Blackpool
  • London (on some assignments)
  • Hybrid working with travel to UK delivery hubs as required
Clearance
  • Active SC Clearance required
Rates
  • Up to £350/day
Current Opportunities
  • Azure DevOps Consultant
  • AWS Senior DevOps Engineer

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