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

• 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.

• 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.

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or send a copy to [email protected]