DevOps Manager – 10 Month Contract – Hybrid / Cardiff

VIQU have partnered with an NHS organisation who are looking for a DevOps Manager to take ownership of an Azure‑based DevOps and platform function, combining hands‑on technical leadership with line management responsibility for a small DevOps and test team.

The successful DevOps Manager will play a key role in maturing DevOps practices, improving CI/CD, automation, monitoring and platform reliability, while leading and setting clear expectations for the team across DevOps and test disciplines.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and line manage a small multi‑disciplinary DevOps and test team, providing day‑to‑day leadership, coaching and mentoring
• Set delivery standards, priorities and ways of working, supporting team performance and continuous improvement
• Provide hands‑on technical leadership across DevOps, Azure cloud and platform engineering where required
• Design, improve and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps), embedding test automation and quality gates
• Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform) and repeatable, automated environment management
• Own platform monitoring, alerting and incident response, ensuring services are resilient, observable and reliable
• Improve Power Platform (Power Apps) ALM, deployment patterns and environment strategies
• Establish and maintain DevOps and platform processes, documentation and operational best practice

Key Skills & Experience Required:

• Proven experience working as a DevOps Manager with line management responsibility
• Strong experience leading and supporting small technical teams
• Deep experience with Microsoft Azure, including cloud architecture, security, monitoring and optimisation
• Proven experience building and improving CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps
• Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar)
• Experience working closely with test teams and embedding quality into delivery
• Comfortable balancing people leadership with hands‑on technical oversight

Contract Overview

• Role: DevOps Manager
• Duration: Contract runs till end of March 2027
• IR35: Inside IR35
• Rate: £325 per day
• Location: Hybrid / Cardiff   

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Suzie Stone