DevOps Lead – 10 Month Contract – Hybrid/Cardiff
VIQU have partnered with an NHS organisation who are looking for a DevOps Lead to take ownership of an Azure-based DevOps and platform function, combining hands‑on technical leadership with day‑to‑day oversight of a small DevOps and test team.
The successful DevOps Lead will play a key role in maturing DevOps practices, improving CI/CD, automation, monitoring and platform reliability, while setting clear standards across cloud, DevOps and test capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Provide hands‑on technical leadership across DevOps, Azure cloud and platform engineering, with a focus on improving reliability, automation and operational maturity
- Lead a small multi-disciplinary team (DevOps and test), acting as a mentor and setting delivery standards
- Design, improve and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps), embedding test automation and quality gates
- Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code (eg Terraform) and repeatable, automated environment management
- Own platform monitoring, alerting and incident response, ensuring services are proactive, observable and resilient
- Improve Power Platform (Power Apps) ALM, deployment patterns and environment strategies
- Establish clear DevOps/platform processes, documentation and operating practices to support long‑term sustainability
Key Skills & Experience Required
- Solid experience as a DevOps Lead with hands‑on delivery experience
- Deep experience with Microsoft Azure, including cloud architecture, security, monitoring and optimisation
- Proven experience building and improving CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps (ADO)
- Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar)
- Experience integrating test automation into pipelines and working closely with test teams
- Background in modern cloud‑first environments
- Comfortable leading small teams while remaining technically hands‑on
Contract Overview
- Role: DevOps Lead
- Duration: Contract runs till end of March 2027
- IR35: Inside IR35
- Rate: £325 per day
- Location: Hybrid/Cardiff
DevOps Lead – 10 Month Contract – Hybrid/Cardiff
VIQU have partnered with an NHS organisation who are looking for a DevOps Lead to take ownership of an Azure-based DevOps and platform function, combining hands‑on technical leadership with day‑to‑day oversight of a small DevOps and test team.
The successful DevOps Lead will play a key role in maturing DevOps practices, improving CI/CD, automation, monitoring and platform reliability, while setting clear standards across cloud, DevOps and test capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Provide hands‑on technical leadership across DevOps, Azure cloud and platform engineering, with a focus on improving reliability, automation and operational maturity
- Lead a small multi-disciplinary team (DevOps and test), acting as a mentor and setting delivery standards
- Design, improve and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps), embedding test automation and quality gates
- Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code (eg Terraform) and repeatable, automated environment management
- Own platform monitoring, alerting and incident response, ensuring services are proactive, observable and resilient
- Improve Power Platform (Power Apps) ALM, deployment patterns and environment strategies
- Establish clear DevOps/platform processes, documentation and operating practices to support long‑term sustainability
Key Skills & Experience Required
- Solid experience as a DevOps Lead with hands‑on delivery experience
- Deep experience with Microsoft Azure, including cloud architecture, security, monitoring and optimisation
- Proven experience building and improving CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps (ADO)
- Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar)
- Experience integrating test automation into pipelines and working closely with test teams
- Background in modern cloud‑first environments
- Comfortable leading small teams while remaining technically hands‑on
Contract Overview
- Role: DevOps Lead
- Duration: Contract runs till end of March 2027
- IR35: Inside IR35
- Rate: £325 per day
- Location: Hybrid/Cardiff
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