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The ever-competitive DevOps talent market is entering a new era – is your business prepared? Persistent skill gaps and widespread digital transformation are proving difficult to navigate for today’s hiring managers, especially when it comes to hiring DevOps engineers.

DevOps is the workflow management philosophy that changed tech jobs forever back in 2007. Seventeen (or so) years later, the once-radical way of working is still evolving.

It’s evolving quickly too, making it tough to pinpoint the kind of talent that will suit your company’s unique needs. Thankfully, the specialist DevOps recruiters at Trust in SODA have a wealth of experience in connecting top DevOps talent with the opportunities they need to shine. 

This means helping leaders design their workplace for difference. DevOps is an inherently intersectional way of working that thrives on diversity – it’s what inspired us to launch our Women in DevOps community back in 2017!

When you partner with Trust in SODA, you gain access to our global community network, enabling you to broaden the talent pool like never before. If you’re looking for consistency, speed, quality, diversity, and sustainability in your hiring partner, our DevOps specialists have you covered.

LIVE JOBS

Galway, County Galway, Ireland
Business Analyst/Product Analyst
Location: Galway – Hybrid Contract: 12 months with a view to extend Rate:€ 440  - € 470 per day Join a collaborative, cross-functional team at the heart of a fast-paced, highly regulated financial environment, where you’ll work on complex products and services that directly impact customers. You’ll have the opportunity to shape innovative solutions, influence key stakeholders, improve operational efficiency, and drive continuous product enhancements—making a tangible difference across the business. The successful candidate will work closely with business leaders, stakeholders, technology teams, operations, and compliance functions to understand business needs, define requirements, and translate complex challenges into practical, scalable solutions. This is a highly collaborative role, requiring someone who can operate comfortably across both business and technical environments while balancing customer, operational, regulatory, and commercial considerations. Key Responsibilities: Lead business analysis and discovery activities across key product and business initiatives. Gather, analyse, document, manage, and validate detailed business and functional requirements. Translate complex business challenges into clear, actionable solutions and future-state processes. Develop business impact assessments, process documentation, and solution requirements. Work closely with business, operations, technology, and compliance stakeholders to ensure alignment and effective decision-making. Facilitate workshops, discussions, and requirements-gathering sessions with key stakeholders. Support solution design, testing, business acceptance, implementation readiness, and post-deployment activities. Identify opportunities for process improvement, automation, and operational efficiency. Support change initiatives and ensure solutions are aligned with business objectives and regulatory requirements. Act as a key link between business and technology teams throughout the project lifecycle. Skills & Experience The ideal candidate will have a strong background in business analysis, product analysis, process improvement, and solution delivery, ideally within financial services or another highly regulated environment. Key requirements: Proven experience gathering, documenting, managing, and validating complex business and functional requirements. Strong analytical, critical-thinking, and problem-solving capabilities. Experience analysing business processes and supporting transformation or solution implementation. Strong understanding of the business analysis lifecycle, from discovery through to implementation and post-delivery support. Excellent communication, facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills. Ability to work effectively with both business and technical teams. Strong ability to influence and collaborate across multiple functions and stakeholder groups. Excellent attention to detail, organisation, and prioritisation skills. A proactive approach with the ability to take ownership and work effectively in a fast-paced environment. Experience working within regulated environments, where compliance and risk considerations form part of solution design, would be advantageous.
Nathan Peters Nathan Peters
Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
Talent Acquisition Associate
Talent Acquisition Associate – Contract Position – HIRING ASAPLocation: 1 week in the Dublin office per month, 3 weeks remote working Start Date: ASAP Duration: 11 months Daily Rate: €150 per dayThe RoleIn this role, you will be a critical member of our clients’ Talent Acquisition team, helping to deliver seamless hiring experience for candidates, hiring managers, interviewers and recruiters. You will manage interview scheduling, support recruiting operations, coordinate onboarding activities, and ensure the accuracy of candidate and hiring data.The Skills You Bring Strong scheduling and coordination experience.Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.Experience with Microsoft Outlook and Office products.Strong attention to detail and data accuracy.Ability to solve problems independently.Continuous improvement mindset and adaptability to new systems including Workday. The Value You Deliver Deliver an exceptional candidate experience.Drive hiring velocity through efficient scheduling.Maintain accurate hiring data and onboarding activities.Anticipate and resolve scheduling and process issues.Identify opportunities for process improvement and automation. Key Areas of Responsibility Own end-to-end interview scheduling and coordination for Ireland.Manage candidate, interviewer and hiring manager communications.Coordinate hiring events, assessment days and recruitment activities.Maintain candidate and hiring information within Workday.Support offer generation, onboarding and background screening progression.Lead daily recruiting operations stand-ups and hiring tracking activities.Maintain process documentation and support compliance activities.Partner with recruiters, hiring managers, HR Operations and candidates.Support graduate, campus and early careers hiring initiatives.Drive continuous improvement and automation opportunities. Qualifications & Experience Experience in Talent Acquisition, Recruitment Coordination, HR Administration or Operations Support.Experience with Outlook, Excel and Word.Workday experience is desirable.Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Nathan Peters Nathan Peters
Remote work, Reunion
Senior Python/Django Engineer
Senior Django Engineer – Payments & Subscriptions | Contract | Remote EU | | Immediate Start I'm working with a fast-scaling AI product company (millions of users across mobile, web and API products) that needs a senior Django contractor to take ownership of the pricing and subscription system at the core of their revenue. This is a genuinely high-ownership role: architecture through to shipped code through to watching your releases perform in production. Small senior team, direct CTO exposure, backend deployed multiple times a week. The workOwn the delivery and architecture of the pricing system used by every product surface and millions of usersOptimise existing endpoints — drive down latency, keep it scaling as usage growsDesign endpoints in direct collaboration with frontend engineers, with OpenAPI specs and supporting docsMonitor your own releases (Datadog) and iterate fast on real usage dataWork cross-functionally with product and frontend to ship seamless user experiencesYou'll need5+ years of hands-on Django and Django Rest Framework — this is a hard requirement, not "Python with some Django exposure"Relational databases at real scale: schema design, Django query optimisation, zero-downtime migrations on PostgreSQL/MySQL databases 100GB+Production experience with subscription and billing infrastructure — Stripe and/or RevenueCatA pragmatic, ship-fast mindset: speed of iteration over perfection, frameworks over reinventionStrong ownership — comfortable making product and technical decisions without hand-holdingFluent EnglishAvailable to start within 1–2 weeksDetailsContract, initial 3 months, strong likelihood of extensionFully remote (EU-based), occasional overlap with CET hoursFast process: short interview loop, quick decisionIf you've built or scaled billing and subscription systems in Django for a high-volume consumer product, I'd like to speak with you this week. Message me directly or apply with a current CV.
Max BinnieMax Binnie
Remote work, England
Software Engineer
Software Engineer — Live Production & Automation (VR / Cross-Platform UGC Platform) 6-Month Contract | EMEARemote in UK Offering around £400 - £500 per day PAYE We're looking for a Software Engineer to join our Runtime & KTLO (Keep-the-Lights-On) team, supporting a large-scale User Generated Content (UGC) platform that runs natively on VR headsets and streams to mobile and PC via cloud rendering. This is a backend-focused, production-operations role. You won't be building new client features — you'll be building the automation, monitoring, and self-healing systems that keep a live, high-traffic product stable, performant, and compatible across every surface it ships on, while reducing the manual operational burden on the team as much as possible. What You'll DoBuild and maintain automation that keeps the application healthy in production — release pipelines, build health checks, crash triage, and incident detectionMaintain and improve an AI-assisted code repair system that autonomously creates and lands fix diffsDevelop tooling that automatically identifies broken builds, pinpoints the root-cause change, and recommends or executes fixesMonitor weekly deployments of the cloud rendering system, ensuring performance and compatibility between VR and mobile/PC users after every releaseMonitor production quality metrics and respond to regressions and outagesDrive down recurring on-call and operational work — targeting an 80–90% reduction through automationComplete infrastructure and dependency migrations to keep CI/CD pipelines functional as upstream systems are retiredWhat We're Looking For8+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalentProven experience building and operating CI/CD, build, release, and cloud deployment pipelines at scaleExperience operating cloud services and server-side fleets in production, including reliability, capacity, and latency managementExperience building or operating AI-assisted developer tooling or agents that generate or repair codeExperience building tooling that detects broken builds and traces failures back to their root-cause changeExperience with production monitoring, crash triage, and incident response for a large-scale, multi-surface applicationA track record of reducing operational and on-call load through automationExperience completing infrastructure or dependency migrations without breaking downstream CI/CDTop non-negotiables:Experience building autonomous, self-healing AI systems that monitor metrics and take corrective action independently to keep performance within required thresholdsExperience deploying and maintaining backend services — specifically managing and monitoring deployments of a system like cloud/remote rendering, and verifying cross-platform compatibility (e.g., VR and mobile) after releaseNice to Have:Experience with cloud game or application streaming, or remote renderingExperience with asset delivery or CDN pipelines at scaleExperience with capacity, latency, or session-orchestration monitoring for streamed workloadsExperience operating live-service or large-scale production applications (Live Ops)Familiarity with large monorepo build systems and dependency managementExperience designing self-healing or auto-remediation systems
Michelle Sutherland Michelle Sutherland
London, Greater London, South East, England
Network Engineer
Network Engineer – Contract Position – HIRING ASAP Location: London – 1-2 days per week in office Start Date: ASAP Duration: 12 months Daily Rate: £350 - £450 per day PAYE Summary We are looking for an experienced Network Production Engineer skilled in tooling, networking, systems, and automation. Tasked with managing, provisioning, deploying, and integrating new products into one of the most robust, expansive, and intricate networks across the globe, this client relies heavily on automation to keep pace with scale requirements. In this position, your primary focus will be designing, building, and launching the vital tools and automation necessary for network provisioning, deployment, and global scaling. Collaborating with industry-leading engineers, you will create the systems and production code that power a massive global network and sustain the network infrastructure used daily by billions of people worldwide!RequirementsPython experienceFamiliar with AI toolsUnderstanding networking fundamentals, basics like SSH, BGP, MPLS7+ years of experience in software engineering, test automation, or infrastructure engineering.5+ years of experience developing software on Linux-based operating systems.3+ years of experience developing automation and tools for network provisioning, deployment, and operations.3+ years of experience developing and understanding network device configurations for at least one vendor (e.g., Arista, Juniper, Cisco, Ciena, Infinera, Nokia).ResponsibilitiesDesign and develop automation, tools, and workflows to facilitate the seamless integration of new routing and switching platforms into the network infrastructure (NPI).Architect and build end-to-end test automation frameworks, leveraging AI to generate, optimize, and execute test suites at scale for qualification of network platforms, new products (switches, routers, optical devices), and network software — integrating them into CI/CD pipelines for continuous qualification.Perform deep dives on complex technical issues across networks, ranging from automated tooling to hardware failures and network issues.
Nathan Peters Nathan Peters
Remote work, England
Software Engineer
Software Engineer — Live Production & Automation (VR / Cross-Platform UGC Platform) 6-Month Contract | EMEARemote in UK Offering around £400 per day PAYE We're looking for a Software Engineer to join our Runtime & KTLO (Keep-the-Lights-On) team, supporting a large-scale User Generated Content (UGC) platform that runs natively on VR headsets and streams to mobile and PC via cloud rendering. This is a backend-focused, production-operations role. You won't be building new client features — you'll be building the automation, monitoring, and self-healing systems that keep a live, high-traffic product stable, performant, and compatible across every surface it ships on, while reducing the manual operational burden on the team as much as possible. What You'll DoBuild and maintain automation that keeps the application healthy in production — release pipelines, build health checks, crash triage, and incident detectionMaintain and improve an AI-assisted code repair system that autonomously creates and lands fix diffsDevelop tooling that automatically identifies broken builds, pinpoints the root-cause change, and recommends or executes fixesMonitor weekly deployments of the cloud rendering system, ensuring performance and compatibility between VR and mobile/PC users after every releaseMonitor production quality metrics and respond to regressions and outagesDrive down recurring on-call and operational work — targeting an 80–90% reduction through automationComplete infrastructure and dependency migrations to keep CI/CD pipelines functional as upstream systems are retiredWhat We're Looking For8+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalentProven experience building and operating CI/CD, build, release, and cloud deployment pipelines at scaleExperience operating cloud services and server-side fleets in production, including reliability, capacity, and latency managementExperience building or operating AI-assisted developer tooling or agents that generate or repair codeExperience building tooling that detects broken builds and traces failures back to their root-cause changeExperience with production monitoring, crash triage, and incident response for a large-scale, multi-surface applicationA track record of reducing operational and on-call load through automationExperience completing infrastructure or dependency migrations without breaking downstream CI/CDTop non-negotiables:Experience building autonomous, self-healing AI systems that monitor metrics and take corrective action independently to keep performance within required thresholdsExperience deploying and maintaining backend services — specifically managing and monitoring deployments of a system like cloud/remote rendering, and verifying cross-platform compatibility (e.g., VR and mobile) after releaseNice to HaveExperience with cloud game or application streaming, or remote renderingExperience with asset delivery or CDN pipelines at scaleExperience with capacity, latency, or session-orchestration monitoring for streamed workloadsExperience operating live-service or large-scale production applications (Live Ops)Familiarity with large monorepo build systems and dependency managementExperience designing self-healing or auto-remediation systems
Michelle Sutherland Michelle Sutherland
London, Greater London, South East, England
AI Change Lead
Urgent Hire|AI Change Lead | Contract Duration: Initial 9 Months Location: Hybrid working in the London office Rate: £300 per day Engagement: Inside IR35 AI Change Lead Job Purpose: As the AI Change Lead, you will drive enterprise-wide adoption of AI technologies by leading strategic change initiatives, fostering AI fluency, and embedding AI-enabled behaviours across the organisation. This role is pivotal in ensuring that employees are equipped, engaged, and empowered to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, innovation, and decision-making in line with our ambition to become AI-enabled by 2028. This role requires a blend of strategic thinking, creative agility, and deep understanding of AI’s impact on people, processes, and culture. Major Accountabilities:  Lead and execute change management strategies to enhance AI Fluency across, ensuring alignment with AI Strategy and culture.Design and deliver AI fluency programmes tailored to different audiences (leaders, managers, general users), including KPIs and success measures.Build change management learning interventions as needed to help leaders prepare teams to continually adopt changes to ways of working resulting from ongoing integration of AI technologiesCollaborate with cross-functional teams (e.g. DDIT and unit learning teams) to ensure seamless adoption and utilization of AI technologies.Coach senior leaders to role-model AI behaviours and support their teams through transitions.Build and activate communities of practice (e.g. AI champions network) to support the diffusion of AI technologies across the organisation.Translate complex AI concepts into accessible narratives through storytelling, campaigns, and engagement events.Champion a culture of experimentation, curiosity, and responsible AI use.Curate and amplify internal success stories, use cases, and impact metrics to build trust and momentum.Monitor adoption metrics, feedback loops, and behavioural indicators to refine change strategies. Skills & Qualifications You should have extensive experience in change management. You should be able to manage multiple projects simultaneously and have strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.  Proven experience in change management, organisational development, or transformation leadership (8+ years).Strong understanding of GenAI tools (e.g. ChatGPT and Copilot)Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.Experience designing and delivering training, workshops, and behavioural change programmes.Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving clarity in fast-paced environments.
Nokwanda KhanyileNokwanda Khanyile
London, Greater London, South East, England
Marketing and Sales Integration Executive
Marketing & Sales Integration Executive - 3-Month Contract, remote or based at any UK office, £ 330 per day (outside IR35)  We're looking for an experienced Marketing & Sales Integration Executive to join a growing professional services organisation on an initial 3-month contract, starting immediately. This is a fast-paced role supporting the integration of multiple newly acquired businesses. You'll help coordinate the rebranding and integration of marketing and sales activities, ensuring a seamless transition while enabling commercial growth and cross-selling opportunities. Duties: Coordinate the marketing and sales integration of newly acquired businesses. Manage rebranding activities across multiple projects to agreed timelines. Support the delivery of consistent brand messaging and customer communications. Help execute cross-sell marketing activities before, during and after integrations. Work closely with internal stakeholders to ensure smooth integration of marketing assets, systems and processes. Take ownership of day-to-day project coordination, allowing senior leaders to focus on strategic integration planning and future acquisitions. Requirements: Experience delivering marketing or brand integration projects. Strong project coordination and organisational skills. Excellent stakeholder management and communication abilities. Experience working across multiple workstreams in a fast-paced environment. The ability to manage competing priorities and deliver to tight deadlines.
Nathan Peters Nathan Peters
CAPGEMINI
169
Placements
118
Permanent
51
Contract
For over 50 years, Capgemini have delivered transformative business solutions to their clients through leading-edge tech, industry expertise and a highly talented workforce. They faced challenges attracting top talent in a candidate-short market, compounded by UK mobility and security clearance requirements. Partnering with Trust in SODA, Capgemini benefited from dedicated resources, tailored searches, specialized teams, and a global network. SODA quickly became a top supplier, exceeding hiring targets annually and supporting high-volume projects for major clients like Deliveroo, John Lewis, EDF, and public sector organisations.
Capgemini

‘Trust in Soda were one of the key suppliers in relation to both quality and volume of candidates successfully placed.

Communication was key to this success, and our working relationship only strengthened as the year progressed, with mutual respect and honesty being the theme of conversations.’

COMAVE GLOBAL
38
Permanent Hires
SODA Max
Hiring Solution
12
Contract Hires

ComAve was experiencing serious growth and had no talent or HR function. Trust in SODA (part of Trinnovo Group) started with recruiting the HR team and then became the talent function. Setting the strategy for all five of their businesses, we provided a linked ecosystem for talent attraction and management. 

We successfully recruited in 38 roles across Sales, Technology, Engineering, Operations and Marketing, from Junior to C Suite including the COO, across Europe, covering Eastern Europe, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and France, as well as the UK.

One of the most important requirements to our client was speed of delivery, and the SODA team have delivered every time. Our EHS solution streamlines the recruitment process to secure business-critical hires faster.

Comave Global
Sarah Lee

Lauren made it a great experience!! She understood from minute 1 what I needed and was super quick finding the perfect person. She was always available, answered all my questions and made me and the candidate feel super attended all the time."

Sarah Lee
Sarah Lee
People Director
GUIDANT GLOBAL
129
Roles Placed
17
Brands Serviced
Guidant Global takes a creative approach to talent management. Having delivered bespoke recruitment solutions to clients all over the globe, Guidant Global is breaking the mould in the MSP, RPO, and SOW markets. To meet mounting demand and alleviate subsequent pressure on candidate pay rates, Guidant Global turned to the team at Trust in SODA to deliver complex hiring projects to their end clients. To date, the SODA squad have provided talent solutions across technology and enablement for seventeen of Guidant Global’s customers, including Dyson, Burberry, Pfizer, The AA, and Novartis. The seamless integration of Trust in SODA’s permanent and contract teams has created dependable hiring coverage across DevOps, Software Engineering, Cloud and Infrastructure, Data, and Creative roles.
Guidant Global
David Miranda

Trinnovo Group is a valued and trusted partner in our never-ending quest to find talent. 

David Miranda
David Miranda
Talent Consultant
NATWEST BOXED
23
Key Hires
Natwest Boxed, the UK's leading banking-as-a-service provider, needed to rapidly expand its team by 30 people in two months to support their growing customer base. They needed to fill hard-to-reach roles across SDET, Engineering Management, Java Development, and Product Management. Partnering with Trust in SODA, they leveraged a dedicated team of five recruiters. This collaboration resulted in over 100 shortlisted candidates, 45 interviews, and 23 successful placements within the tight two-month timeframe.
Natwest Boxed
Mike Jetson

NatWest Boxed and Trust in Soda have built a successful partnership focused on specialist engineering recruitment, ensuring access to top-tier talent. Together, they have prioritized diverse hiring, helping NatWest Boxed strengthen its engineering teams with a more inclusive and high-performing workforce.

Mike Jetson
Mike Jetson
(Talent Acquisition Lead - NatWest Boxed & Mettle by NatWest)
PREMFINA
15
Roles Placed
PremFina, a rapidly growing FinTech startup, sought to diversify its workforce while expanding its team. Initially tasked with a single DevOps hire, Trust in SODA leveraged its network and expertise to quickly place a diverse candidate within three weeks, leading to a second successful placement in Software Engineering. Since then, Trust in SODA has become PremFina's exclusive tech recruitment partner, also providing contract and finance/risk recruitment through sister brand Broadgate. The partnership has resulted in 15 placements since November 2023, with 33% representing diverse hires. PremFina anticipates continued growth and success in this partnership.
Premfina
Kat Murray

‘Trust in Soda has really been part of a huge growth set in our organisation’.

Kat Murray
Kat Murray
HR

MEET THE TEAM

Ryan Hill

Managing Director, SODA

David Young

Director & Co-Founder

Lauren Langdell

Director (DACH) and Founder at Women in DevOps

Ryan Jones

Associate Director - US

Adam Brinkley

Business Manager

Adam Hicks

Head of DACH - Software, DevOps & Cloud

Adam Whitehurst

Senior Principal Consultant

Zaynab Khan

Senior Recruitment Consultant - DACH

Dominika Kodadova

Principal Consultant

Nathan Peters

Team Lead & Senior Contract Recruitment Consultant

Georgina Nettleton

Senior Recruitment Consultant

Joe Dukes

Principal Consultant (US)

Taylor Rothwell

Principal Consultant

Max Binnie

DACH Data, AI & Analytics Lead

Jason Morley

Senior Consultant

Joe Woodard

Contract Consultant - Switzerland

Michelle Sutherland

Delivery Consultant

Robyn Links

Search Consultant

Nokwanda Khanyile

Search Consultant

Gizem Cicek

Principal Recruitment Consultant

Aleksandra Zielinska

Consultant

Henry Townsend

Senior Consultant

Ciara Mulcahy

Consultant

Síofra Guerin

Consultant

Harry Murphy

Consultant

Ashley Lawrence

Founder & Group CEO

Oliver Perry

COO

Viki Dowthwaite

Commercial Director

Aaron Gonsalves

Head of Talent

Matthew Goddard

Head of Legal & Compliance

Marita Harper

HR Partner

Micha Swallow

People Development & Performance Lead

Sabrina Jones

Commercial Payroll Lead

Georgia Mason

Consultant