Contract Role: Delivery Lead (Cloud & DevOps)
Location: Newcastle
Duration: 17 Nov 2025 - 31 Mar 2026
Clearance: SC required
Rate: £700-800p/d (inside IR35)

We're supporting a major public-sector digital programme and seeking an experienced Delivery Lead with strong AWS, DevOps, and cloud engineering expertise. You'll guide delivery teams, shape technical direction, and ensure cloud-native solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned to best practice.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and direct delivery of cloud-based projects

• Provide technical guidance across AWS, DevOps, and engineering teams

• Build and maintain IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK)

• Oversee CI/CD pipelines (CodePipeline, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)

• Support creation of cloud-native applications (JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, SQL, Docker)

• Contribute to discussions on emerging tech, including AI/ML and automation

• Collaborate with security, production, and infrastructure teams

• Influence and negotiate across teams to drive delivery

Technical Skills

• Strong AWS knowledge: EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation

• Experience with serverless and containerised architectures (ECS, EKS, Fargate)

• Monitoring tools: CloudWatch, ELK, Prometheus/Grafana

• Coding experience in Python, Java, Node.js, or Go

• Awareness of RPA tools (UiPath, Blue Prism) and AI/ML models