DevOps Lead
Our client, a leading global supplier for IT services, requires Dev Ops Lead to be based at their client’s office in Windsor, UK.
This is a hybrid role – you can work remotely in the UK and attend the Windsor office 1 days per week .
This is a 6+ month temporary contract to start asap
Day rate: Competitive Market rate
Our client is seeking an experienced DevOps Lead to drive the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of DevOps practices across cloud and application platforms. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in AWS cloud services, CI/CD automation, infrastructure management, and operational excellence. Experience supporting Salesforce platform deployments and integrations is highly desirable. The role involves leading DevOps initiatives, enabling development teams, and ensuring secure, scalable, and reliable deployment pipelines
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the DevOps strategy, implementation, and continuous improvement initiatives across multiple applications and platforms.
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available AWS cloud infrastructure environments.
- Own and optimize CI/CD pipelines to enable efficient, reliable, and automated application deployments.
- Collaborate with Development, QA, Architecture, Infrastructure, Security, and Salesforce teams to ensure seamless delivery and operational excellence.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar technologies.
- Establish monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions to ensure proactive incident detection and resolution.
- Drive environment management, release automation, configuration management, and deployment standardization across teams.
- Ensure cloud security, compliance, vulnerability management, and adherence to organizational governance policies.
- Lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis for production issues, performance bottlenecks, and deployment failures.
- Mentor and guide DevOps engineers while promoting DevOps culture, best practices, automation, and continuous improvement.
Key Requirements
Essential Skills:
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud services, including networking, compute, storage, security, IAM, and monitoring services.
- Proven expertise in CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or Ansible.
- Strong knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and EKS.
- Excellent understanding of DevOps, SRE, Agile methodologies, automation frameworks, system reliability, and operational best practices.
Desirable Skills:
- Experience with Salesforce DevOps, including deployment automation using tools such as Copado, Gearset, AutoRABIT, or Salesforce DX.
- Knowledge of Salesforce platform architecture, integrations, release management, and environment strategy.
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Datadog, Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, CloudWatch, or AppDynamics.
- Exposure to multi-cloud environments, including Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Relevant certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect/DevOps Engineer Professional, Salesforce Administrator, Salesforce Platform App Builder, Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD), or Terraform Associate.
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