Tech Delivery Manager (AWS Cloud & DevOps)

Korn Ferry; Greater London; Remote; GBP 102,000 - 134,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

Korn Ferry is seeking a Tech Delivery Manager to lead cloud and DevOps delivery focused on AWS. This remote role involves coordinating cloud-native service delivery, ensuring secure, scalable architectures, and guiding CI/CD and IaC practices within a multi-disciplinary team.

Responsibilities include roadmap delivery, risk management, and effective communication with product leads, architects, and platform users. AWS skills, certifications, and a delivery-methodology background are highly valued.

Qualifications

• Hands-on delivery experience in a cloud environment (AWS)
• Strong AWS fundamentals: IAM, VPC, EC2, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools
• Experience in a single multi-disciplinary agile team
• Ability to manage a product backlog, delivery plans, risks and dependencies
• Strong communication skills translating technical to non-technical stakeholders
• Desirable: AWS certifications, Kubernetes/EKS, serverless patterns
• Understanding of SRE concepts (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets) and operational excellence
• Participation in platform engineering or DevOps communities of practice
• Essential: delivery methodology certification (Scrum, Kanban) and proven technical delivery experience
• Desirable: AWS and DevOps certifications

Responsibilities

• Overseeing delivery of platform capabilities on AWS, ensuring secure, scalable, well-architected solutions
• Coordinating technical planning and roadmap delivery within the product team
• Ensuring cloud infrastructure, deployments and environments are managed and maintained
• Championing DevOps practices including CI/CD, observability, automation, IaC and shift-left testing
• Supporting the team to mature the build-run-improve cycle including release automation, incident response, monitoring and alerts
• Improving IaC standards (Terraform/CloudFormation), runbooks, and deployment pipelines
• Maintaining delivery plans, sprint goals and release schedules for a long-lived product team
• Managing risks, issues, blockers and dependencies related to the platform
• Ensuring platform changes meet agreed quality, security and operational controls
• Acting as the main delivery contact point for stakeholders including product leads, architects and owners
• Translating technical information into clear delivery decisions and progress updates
• Collaborating with adjacent teams where cross-cutting decisions or approvals are required

Skills

AWS delivery

Cloud fundamentals

CI/CD

Automation tools

Agile teams

Backlog management

Stakeholder comms

Kubernetes

Docker

Serverless

SRE concepts

Platform engineering

Delivery methodology

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Azure DevOps

Terraform

CloudFormation

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Role: Tech Delivery Manager (AWS Cloud & DevOps)

Rate: £640 per day

Duration: 12 months

Location: Remote (possible travel to site once or twice per month, London)

IR35 determination: Inside

Responsibilities:

Cloud & AWS Delivery

• Overseeing delivery of platform capabilities and services built on AWS, ensuring secure, scalable, and well-architected solutions.

• Coordinating technical planning and roadmap delivery within the product team.

• Ensuring cloud infrastructure, deployments, and environments are appropriately managed and maintained.

DevOps & Engineering Enablement

• Championing DevOps practices including CI/CD, observability, automation, infrastructure-as-code and shift-left testing.

• Supporting the team to mature the build-run-improve cycle, including release automation, incident response, monitoring and alerting.

• Improving and maintaining IaC standards (Terraform/CloudFormation), operational runbooks, and deployment pipelines.

Delivery & Governance

• Maintaining delivery plans, sprint goals and release schedules for a long-lived product team.

• Managing risks, issues, blockers and dependencies related to the platform.

• Ensuring platform changes meet agreed quality, security and operational controls.

Stakeholder & Cross-Team Engagement

• Acting as the main delivery contact point for team stakeholders including product leads, architects, business owners and other platform consumers.

• Translating technical information into clear delivery decisions and communicating progress effectively.

• Collaborating with adjacent teams (e.g., security, networks, shared services) where cross-cutting decisions or approvals are required.

Requirements:

• Hands-on delivery experience in a cloud environment, ideally AWS, including working with teams building or running cloud-native services.

• Strong understanding of AWS fundamentals (IAM, VPC, EC2, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, CloudFormation/Terraform).

• Demonstrated experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines and automation tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps etc.).

• Experience working within a single multi-disciplinary agile team delivering continuous increments of value.

• Ability to manage a product backlog, delivery plans, risks and dependencies.

• Strong communication skills, able to translate between technical and non-technical stakeholders

Desirable:

• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer etc.).

• Experience with Kubernetes/EKS, containerisation (Docker), or serverless patterns.

• Understanding of SRE concepts (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets) and operational excellence.

• Participation in platform engineering or DevOps communities of practice.

Qualifications:

• Essential: certification in a delivery methodology (Scrum, Kanban) and proven technical delivery experience.

• Desirable: AWS and DevOps-related certifications

About Korn Ferry

Korn Ferry unleashes potential in people, teams, and organizations. We work with our clients to design optimal organization structures, roles, and responsibilities. We help them hire the right people and advise them on how to reward and motivate their workforce while developing professionals as they navigate and advance their careers. To learn more, please visit Korn Ferry at www.Kornferry.com