Tech Delivery Manager (AWS Cloud & DevOps)

Cloud & AWS Delivery

• Overseeing delivery of platform capabilities and services built on AWS, ensuring secure, scalable, and well-architected solutions.

• Coordinating technical planning and roadmap delivery within the product team.

• Ensuring cloud infrastructure, deployments, and environments are appropriately managed and maintained.

DevOps & Engineering Enablement

• Championing DevOps practices including CI/CD, observability, automation, infrastructure-as-code and shift-left testing.

• Supporting the team to mature the build-run-improve cycle, including release automation, incident response, monitoring and alerting.

• Improving and maintaining IaC standards (Terraform/CloudFormation), operational runbooks, and deployment pipelines.

Delivery & Governance

• Maintaining delivery plans, sprint goals and release schedules for a long-lived product team.

• Managing risks, issues, blockers and dependencies related to the platform.

• Ensuring platform changes meet agreed quality, security and operational controls.

Stakeholder & Cross-Team Engagement

• Acting as the main delivery contact point for team stakeholders including product leads, architects, business owners and other platform consumers.

• Translating technical information into clear delivery decisions and communicating progress effectively.

• Collaborating with adjacent teams (eg, security, networks, shared services) where cross-cutting decisions or approvals are required.

• Hands-on delivery experience in a cloud environment, ideally AWS, including working with teams building or running cloud-native services.

• Strong understanding of AWS fundamentals (IAM, VPC, EC2, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, CloudFormation/Terraform).

• Demonstrated experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines and automation tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps etc.).

• Experience working within a single multi-disciplinary agile team delivering continuous increments of value.

• Ability to manage a product backlog, delivery plans, risks and dependencies.

• Strong communication skills, able to translate between technical and non-technical stakeholders

Desirable:

• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer etc.).

• Experience with Kubernetes/EKS, containerisation (Docker), or serverless patterns.

• Understanding of SRE concepts (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets) and operational excellence.

• Participation in platform engineering or DevOps communities of practice.

Qualifications:

• Essential: certification in a delivery methodology (Scrum, Kanban) and proven technical delivery experience.

• Desirable: AWS and DevOps-related certifications