Service Delivery Lead

3 days ago


Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Cpl Full time

Hiring Now: Delivery Lead – Cloud & Engineering | Hybrid | Newcastle | SC Cleared

We're seeking an experienced
Delivery Lead
with strong cloud engineering, DevOps, and infrastructure expertise to join a major public-sector digital programme. This role is ideal for someone who can guide delivery teams, influence technical decisions, and drive high-quality cloud-native solutions at scale.

Location

Newcastle – Cobalt Business Park (Hybrid: 3 days onsite)

Contract Duration

17 Nov 2025 – 31 Mar 2026

Day Rates

  • £606.43/day base
  • £694.61/day incl. holiday (33 days)

SC Clearance required

Role Overview

As a Delivery Lead, you will work closely with engineering, product, and operations teams to oversee the delivery of robust, secure, and scalable cloud-based solutions. You will act with authority to guide technical direction, ensure best practices are followed, and contribute to strategic decision-making across the wider business.

This role requires deep technical understanding combined with strong leadership, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.

Key Technical Skills

AWS Cloud Expertise

  • Strong knowledge of EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation, etc.
  • Experience with serverless and containerized architectures (ECS, EKS, Fargate)
  • Understanding of Well-Architected Framework and cost-optimisation principles

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

  • Hands-on experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK

DevOps & CI/CD

  • Building and maintaining pipelines using CodePipeline, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI
  • Experience with monitoring/logging (CloudWatch, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana)

Programming & Architecture

  • Strong skills in Python, Java, , or Go
  • Ability to design secure, scalable, cloud-native architectures

Additional Required Experience

  • Driving project decisions and providing authoritative technical direction
  • Building and maintaining IaC and CI/CD pipelines
  • Awareness of open-source AI/ML models and integration in cloud solutions
  • Awareness of RPA tools (UiPath or Blue Prism)
  • Experience creating cloud solutions using JavaScript/TypeScript, , SQL, Docker
  • Providing clear, definitive advice across diverse teams and resolving contentious issues
  • Ensuring alignment with engineering standards, security, and best practices
  • Working closely with production and infrastructure teams to deliver resilient, secure products

Interested?

If you'd like to learn more or put yourself forward, feel free to reach out or share your CV.


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