DevOps Engineer
Posted 6 days ago by ScaleOps Search Ltd
Negotiable
Outside
Remote
United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior CI/CD Consultant role focuses on leading the design and implementation of CI/CD pipelines for a major cloud transformation initiative within a large enterprise. The position requires extensive experience in DevOps practices and aims to modernize software delivery processes by embedding automation and best practices across engineering teams. This fully remote role is pivotal in enhancing deployment reliability and developer experience while ensuring compliance and security standards are met. The consultant will also mentor teams and influence technical stakeholders in adopting scalable solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and implement enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines across multiple engineering teams
- Define and drive best practices for build, test, release, and deployment automation
- Build and maintain pipelines using modern tooling such as GitHub Actions
- Support migration of existing CI/CD systems from a legacy cloud environment to a modern cloud platform
- Improve deployment reliability, speed, and developer experience across the organisation
- Embed infrastructure-as-code and GitOps principles into delivery workflows
- Collaborate closely with platform engineering, cloud architecture, and application teams
- Identify bottlenecks in release processes and implement scalable solutions
- Ensure security, compliance, and governance standards are integrated into all pipelines
- Mentor engineers and promote CI/CD maturity across teams
Key Skills:
- Extensive experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines in complex enterprise environments
- Strong hands-on expertise with GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD platforms (e.g. GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, Jenkins)
- Strong programming experience in TypeScript (or similar modern scripting languages used for automation and tooling)
- Proven experience building scalable deployment systems for distributed or microservices-based architectures
- Deep understanding of cloud-native development practices and containerised environments (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience working on large-scale transformation or migration programmes
- Ability to operate in fast-paced, ambiguous enterprise environments
- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence senior technical stakeholders
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Senior CI/CD Consultant - Outside IR35 - Fully remote (UK Only)
Overview
We are supporting a major enterprise-scale cloud transformation programme and are seeking a highly experienced Senior CI/CD Consultant to join a high-performing engineering environment. This role sits at the centre of a large-scale migration initiative moving from a legacy cloud platform to a modern cloud-native architecture. The organisation requires a specialist who can design, build, and optimise world-class CI/CD pipelines that enable fast, safe, and reliable software delivery at scale. You will act as a senior technical authority in DevOps and release engineering, helping engineering teams modernise their delivery practices and adopt scalable automation patterns.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines across multiple engineering teams
- Define and drive best practices for build, test, release, and deployment automation
- Build and maintain pipelines using modern tooling such as GitHub Actions
- Support migration of existing CI/CD systems from a legacy cloud environment to a modern cloud platform
- Improve deployment reliability, speed, and developer experience across the organisation
- Embed infrastructure-as-code and GitOps principles into delivery workflows
- Collaborate closely with platform engineering, cloud architecture, and application teams
- Identify bottlenecks in release processes and implement scalable solutions
- Ensure security, compliance, and governance standards are integrated into all pipelines
- Mentor engineers and promote CI/CD maturity across teams
Required Skills & Experience
- Extensive experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines in complex enterprise environments
- Strong hands-on expertise with GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD platforms (e.g. GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, Jenkins)
- Strong programming experience in TypeScript (or similar modern scripting languages used for automation and tooling)
- Proven experience building scalable deployment systems for distributed or microservices-based architectures
- Deep understanding of cloud-native development practices and containerised environments (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience working on large-scale transformation or migration programmes
- Ability to operate in fast-paced, ambiguous enterprise environments
- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence senior technical stakeholders
Nice to Have
- Experience with either major public cloud platform (Azure or Google Cloud)
- Exposure to cloud migration programmes or platform modernisation initiatives
- Infrastructure-as-Code tooling (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.)
- Experience with internal developer platforms (IDPs) or platform engineering teams
- Background in large-scale logistics, supply chain, or enterprise organisations
What You’ll Be Doing
You’ll be helping a large enterprise modernise how software is built, tested, and deployed, moving away from legacy delivery processes towards a fully automated, cloud-native CI/CD ecosystem. This is a hands-on consulting role with significant influence over engineering standards, tooling, and delivery strategy.
Why Apply?
This is a high-impact opportunity to shape CI/CD strategy at scale, working within a complex global environment undergoing significant technical transformation. You’ll be instrumental in enabling faster, safer, and more reliable software delivery across hundreds of engineers.