Mission freelance Delivery Manager

***SC Cleared***
Delivery Manager
7 Month contract initially
Location: Remote (In person as required onsite in London)
Rate: £575 - 625 p/d (via Umbrella company)

We have a great opportunity with a world leading organisation where you will be provided with all of the support and development to succeed. A progressive organisation where you can really make a difference. We have a great opportunity for a Delivery Manager to join the team.

Must have:
* Technologies - The must have requirements centre around the base technology platforms that we build all our infrastructure):
* AWS
* Cloud Formation or Terraform
* Nginx
* Linux administration
* Packer
* Collaboration tools (Git, Jira, Confluence, etc)

Must have's:
* Kubernetes
* Docker
* Hashicorp tools (Packer, Consul, Vault, etc)

Skills:
* Ability to balance multiple priorities and coordinate across delivery teams to deliver value
* Working at senior leadership level across the organisation, establishing stakeholder networks and actively engaging other senior leaders
* Strong financial management skills in order to leverage budget and prioritise business needs
* Creating and maintaining an overall delivery plan that highlights forecasts/estimates and confidence levels, whilst taking into account multiple individual delivery plans
* Using experience of technology delivery and technical practices to help translate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
* Applying previous experience to identify, understand and analyse key metrics in order to improve team delivery
* Sufficiently understanding an organisation to identify the right people who can make the right decisions and at the right time, defining what good governance looks like within a delivery context
* Acting as the Delivery Manager for one or more delivery teams at the same time through a complete delivery lifecycle (prepare, deliver, improve)
* Working within an agile context with the use of CI
* Articulate a logical design, and understand how this translates to physical infrastructure
* Experience with defining and working with the constraint of NFRs such as cost, scalability, availability
* The must have skills will determine how well they will be able to integrate into our way of working and
* The principals we use when making strategic and long-term decisions.

Nice to have:
* Technologies - The must have requirements centre around the base technology platforms that we build all our infrastructure):
* Kubernetes
* Docker
* Hashicorp tools (Packer, Consul, Vault, etc)
* Other networking technologies

Skills:
* Complex technical delivery across multiple workstreams
* Adapting approaches to different phases of a delivery lifecycle
* Understanding what good governance looks like and how to implement improvements
* Programme/Portfolio delivery
* Communicating and Influencing

This is an excellent opportunity on a great project of work, If you are looking for your next exciting opportunity, apply now for your CV to reach me directly, we will respond as soon as possible.


Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take up to a minimum 10 weeks. LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds.

Award Winning LA International, winner of the Recruiter Awards for Excellence, Best IT Recruitment Company, Best Public Sector Recruitment Company and overall Gold Award winner, has now secured the most prestigious business award that any business can receive, The Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade, for the second consecutive period.