Technical Delivery Manager
About The Position
On behalf of the Home Office, this is a six-month, Inside IR35 contract role based remotely in the UK, with occasional travel to the London office. The Technical Delivery Manager will be embedded in a single product team on a strategic cloud platform and lead end-to-end delivery of technical change, cloud-native capabilities and platform enhancements. The role focuses on helping the team build, run and improve AWS services through DevOps and automation practices that support speed, reliability and operational excellence. The postholder will work with engineers, architects, product managers and platform specialists to deliver secure, scalable, high-quality cloud solutions. They will align priorities, remove blockers and support technical decisions so the platform remains stable, cost-efficient and continuously improving. The platform supports secure, large-scale public services. Work must be performed within the UK, not overseas.
Requirements
- Active SC clearance is essential; applicants must at minimum be willing and eligible to undergo checks.
- Delivery experience in a cloud environment, ideally AWS, including working with teams building or running cloud-native services.
- Demonstrated experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines and automation tools.
- Experience working in a single multidisciplinary agile team delivering continuous increments of value.
- Strong communication skills and ability to translate between technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Nice To Haves
- Strong understanding of AWS fundamentals, including IAM, VPC, EC2, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch and CloudFormation or Terraform.
- AWS certifications, such as Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer.
- Experience with Kubernetes/EKS, Docker/containerisation or serverless patterns.
- Understanding of SRE concepts, including SLIs/SLOs and error budgets, and operational excellence.
- Participation in platform engineering or DevOps communities of practice.
Responsibilities
- Oversee delivery of AWS platform capabilities and services, ensuring secure, scalable and well-architected solutions.
- Coordinate technical planning and roadmap delivery within the product team.
- Ensure cloud infrastructure, deployments and environments are appropriately managed and maintained.
- Champion DevOps practices, including CI/CD, observability, automation, infrastructure as code and shift-left testing.
- Support the team to mature the build-run-improve cycle, including release automation, incident response, monitoring and alerting.
- Maintain delivery plans, sprint goals and release schedules for a long-lived product team.
- Manage platform-related risks, issues, blockers and dependencies.
- Act as the main delivery contact for stakeholders, including product leads, architects, business owners and other platform consumers.
- Translate technical information into clear delivery decisions and communicate progress effectively.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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