DevOps Lead (SC CLEARED) Manchester/Hybrid £90k

Akkodis; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A prestigious tech company is seeking a DevOps Lead to drive cloud automation and IaC projects in a hybrid environment. This role includes leading the design of automated infrastructure pipelines and assessing DevOps practices within the organization. The ideal candidate will have strong skills in IaC and CI/CD, and experience with AWS and Azure. A salary of up to £90k plus excellent benefits is offered.

Benefits

Superb benefits

Hybrid working arrangement

Qualifications

• Strong IaC and CI/CD expertise, especially with Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible.
• Solid understanding of cloud networking, security, and infrastructure patterns.
• Experience working in agile environments, preferably with Jira.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of automated IaC pipelines.
• Assess current DevOps maturity and automation opportunities.
• Produce detailed documentation and deliver knowledge transfer to internal teams.

Skills

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

CI/CD expertise

Cloud networking

Security

DevOps/Cloud Engineering

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

AWS CodePipeline

Jira

Job description

DevOps Lead - Multi Cloud environment (Azure and AWS)

Prestigious client

Hybrid working - Manchester

I’m on the hunt for a cracking DevOps Lead to support a large‑scale IaC Automation project, driving the design and delivery of automated cloud infrastructure pipelines across AWS and Azure.

My client operates a complex multi‑cloud environment and is expanding its DevOps capability to standardise and automate infrastructure provisioning across multiple digital work spaces and services.

Joining at initial discovery stage, you will then lead key work streams to assess and enhance existing DevOps practices, implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) pipelines, and enable internal teams to adopt sustainable DevOps ways of working.

Your remit will largely be technical initially but with a view to quickly hire x2 DevOps Engineers to work alongside you!

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of automated IaC pipelines and repositories.
• Assess current DevOps maturity, toolchains, and automation opportunities.
• Develop reusable modules using Terraform, CloudFormation, and ARM templates.
• Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, and AWS CodePipeline.
• Integrate configuration management (Ansible) and monitoring solutions.
• Produce detailed documentation and deliver knowledge transfer to internal teams.

Qualifications

• Strong IaC and CI/CD expertise (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM, Ansible).
• Solid understanding of cloud networking, security, and infrastructure patterns.
• Experience in agile, product‑aligned environments (Jira preferred).
• Solid DevOps/Cloud Engineering across AWS & Azure.

Excellent stakeholder engagement and mentoring capability.

If you’re passionate about enabling DevOps transformation and cloud automation at scale - I want to talk today!

Up to 90k base plus superb benefits - Due to the nature of this work you will need full S/C Clearance to proceed!

Call me anytime on (phone number removed) or (url removed) for immediate consideration

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