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About the Company Akkodis is a global leader in engineering, technology, and R&D, harnessing the power of connected data to drive digital transformation and innovation for a smarter, more sustainable future. As part of the Adecco Group, Akkodis employs over 50,000 engineers and digital specialists across 30 countries in North America, EMEA, and APAC. Our teams bring extensive cross-sector knowledge in critical technology areas such as mobility, software services, robotics, simulations, cybersecurity, AI, and data analytics, enabling clients to tackle complex challenges in today’s rapidly evolving markets. With a comprehensive solution portfolio across four service lines—Consulting, Solutions, Talents, and Academy—Akkodis supports clients from concept through to full-scale deployment and optimisation. Our diverse offerings help organisations rethink product development, accelerate productivity, reduce time-to-market, and prepare for the future. At Akkodis, you’ll join a dynamic environment that values continuous learning and global collaboration, where you can make a meaningful impact through innovative projects that shape the future of technology. About the Role We’re seeking an experienced DevOps Lead to design, implement, and optimise cloud-native automations pipelines across AWS and Azure. This role will lead IaC Automation workstreams, responsible for designing secure, repeatable CI/CD pipelines, developing reusable infrastructure modules, and embedding DevOps best practices into cloud delivery models. Responsibilities • Identify automation opportunities and define technical scope, dependencies, and constraints, • Document current-state vs. Target-state CI/CD capabilities, toolchains, and IaC strategy, • Engage with Cloud Architects and Product Owners to shape automation roadmap, • Lead the design, build, and deployment of automated IaC pipelines for both AWS and Azure environments, • Develop reusable Terraform and CloudFormation modules for multi-environment provisioning, • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, and AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild, • Integrate with configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, System Manager) and monitoring (CloudWatch, Azure Monitor), • Establish consistent tagging, versioning, and change control across IaC repositories, • Embed security and compliance controls into pipelines, • Define governance for promotion between Dev, Test, Pre-Prod, and Production environments, • Deliver detailed documentation, runbooks, and playbooks for internal teams, • Conduct knowledge transfer and training workshops with DevOps engineers, • Promote a culture of collaboration, automation, and continuous improvement Qualifications 5+ years of experience in DevOps/Cloud Engineering, including multi-cloud environments Required Skills • Proven experience with AWS (EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, CloudFormation) and Azure (VMs, AKS, App Services, ARM templates), • Strong experience building CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, and AWS CodePipeline, • Advanced Terraform experience (modules, workspaces, remote state, variables, versioning), • Proficiency in scripting (Bash, PowerShell, Python), • Solid understanding of networking, security groups, VPCs, VNets, and load balancing, • Experience with containerisation and automated deployments, • Familiarity with monitoring and observability Preferred Skills Certification: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert Equal Opportunity Statement Akkodis is committed to diversity and inclusivity in the workplace.