Details:
- Salary: £700 - 800 - Day
- Job Type: Contract
- Job Status: Full-Time
- Salary Per: Day
- Location: Bury Greater Manchester
- Date: 19 hours ago
Description:
Hays are now looking for a Senior / Principal DevOps & CloudOps Engineer for one of our local retail clients:
£700 - £800 p/d Inside IR35 (depending on level)
3 days p/w in the office, rest is WFH
Location is Bury
We are looking for a Senior or Principal DevOps & CloudOps Engineer to design, build, and evolve our enterprise CI/CD and cloud infrastructure frameworks. Working closely with Engineering, Product, QA, Security, and Reliability teams, you will help deliver secure, scalable, automated, and high-performing cloud services while enabling development teams to deploy with greater speed and autonomy.
What You'll Be Doing
Design, build, and continuously improve enterprise CI/CD pipelines and DevOps frameworks.
Select and implement the right tools, processes, and automation to streamline software delivery.
Drive adoption of DevOps best practices across engineering teams and onboard products onto shared platforms.
Build and maintain secure, scalable, and high-performing cloud infrastructure in AWS.
Implement observability, monitoring, and operational insights across multiple environments.
Improve deployment processes, reduce friction, and enable self-service capabilities for development teams.
Support cloud and infrastructure incident response, ensuring rapid service restoration.
Develop solutions that provide visibility into cloud costs, resource utilisation, and FinOps metrics.
Maintain infrastructure currency, supporting upgrades and continuous improvement initiatives.
Define and manage the roadmap for pipeline enhancements, platform capabilities, and technology innovation.
What We're Looking For
Deep expertise in DevOps, Cloud Operations, and FinOps principles.
Strong experience designing and managing AWS-based cloud environments.
Proven experience building Infrastructure as Code solutions using tools such as Terraform.
Hands-on experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines from scratch, ideally using GitHub.
Experience supporting large-scale engineering organisations, including monorepos and parallel deployment models.
Knowledge of configuration, service, and release management practices with a strong focus on automation.
Experience with containerisation and workload orchestration technologies.
Scripting and programming experience with tools such as Python and Bash.
Strong understanding of observability, reliability, and operational best practices.
Knowledge of information security principles and experience embedding security throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
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