Lead DevOps Engineer

Location: Primarily remote, with one onsite visit to Manchester per month Contract Type: 12-Month Fixed Term Contract (FTC), with a view to go permanent Employer: Amber Labs – Digital Consultancy Clearance: Active SC clearance advantageous, however SC Eligibility accepted. Start Date: April About Amber Labs Amber Labs is a forward-thinking digital consultancy delivering innovative cloud, data, and DevOps solutions across the UK public sector. We specialise in helping organisations achieve digital transformation at pace while maintaining the highest security and governance standards. We are seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer well-versed with Azure, with experience leading DevOps teams, as well as previous experience working within centralised government capacities. This is an excellent opportunity to work on highly impactful projects while enjoying a flexible, collaborative environment. Role Overview As a Lead, you’re expected to operate at both a technical leadership level and a hands-on architecture/automation level. You will work within an Agile team, focusing on scalable, secure, and resilient cloud architectures that support modern digital services. Key Responsibilities • You’ll define and enforce deployment pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions by building multi-stage pipelines (build, test, security scan, deploy), implementing blue/green or canary deployments and standardizing pipelines across teams. • Full automation of infrastructure using Terraform and Azure Resource Manager (ARM) to build reusable modules and templates to enforce consistency across environments. • Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous integration and delivery • Automate system deployments, configuration, and monitoring for reliability and performance • Manage and optimise containerised applications using Docker and Kubernetes (standardising Docker usage). • Collaborate with developers, security engineers, and architects to deliver high-quality solutions • For Senior Engineers: Provide technical leadership, mentor team members, and contribute to solution design decisions Skills & Experience Required • Active SC clearance preferred, but SC Eligibility accepted (applications without clearance cannot be considered) • Proven experience with Azure, AWS core services (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, Lambda, ECS/EKS) • Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) • Strong knowledge of CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) • Experience with containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) • Scripting ability with Python or Bash • Version control experience (Git) Apply Now and help shape the future of UK digital services with Amber Labs.