Lead DevOps/CloudOps Engineer (Azure) at Dcoded, Cheltenham, 3 Months, £500-£550 per day

Contract Lead DevOps/Cloud Operations Engineer

£500-£550 per day | Initial 3-Month Contract | Outside IR35
Hybrid - Cheltenham (1-2 days onsite per week)

We're supporting a technology-led organisation in the search for an experienced Lead DevOps/Cloud Operations Engineer to play a critical role in the stability, security, and performance of a large-scale cloud platform environment.

This is a hands-on leadership role suited to a senior cloud operations professional who thrives in fast-paced environments and can quickly add value across operational stability, incident management, cloud infrastructure, and platform resilience.

Working closely with senior technology leadership, you'll act as the senior technical escalation point across Cloud Operations, leading high-priority incident response, technical triage, infrastructure improvements, and operational maturity initiatives. You'll also provide guidance and mentoring to engineers within the wider operations function while collaborating across development, security, QA, and database teams.

Key responsibilities include managing Azure-hosted production environments, supporting infrastructure and deployment activities, driving monitoring and observability improvements, leading root cause analysis activities, and overseeing higher-risk platform and infrastructure changes. You'll also support resilience testing, vulnerability remediation, and operational governance within a regulated environment.

The successful candidate will bring deep hands-on Azure experience across App Services, networking, compute, and cloud operations, alongside strong knowledge of Windows Server environments, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring tooling, and operational Microsoft SQL Server support. Experience operating within complex SaaS or enterprise cloud environments is highly desirable.

This contract would suit someone who combines strong technical capability with calm, decisive leadership during critical incidents and operational challenges. You'll be joining a collaborative technology function where your expertise will have an immediate impact across platform reliability, operational performance, and cloud engineering best practice.

Key Skills:

• Microsoft Azure
• Cloud Operations & Infrastructure
• CI/CD & Deployment Support
• Azure Networking
• Monitoring & Observability
• Incident Management & RCA
• Windows Server
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Security & Operational Governance
• Technical Leadership & Stakeholder Management