DevOps Engineer

Role Overview

The DevOps Engineer will enable modern engineering practices by driving automation, optimising deployment pipelines, and embedding DevOps principles across development and operational teams. The role requires a technically skilled, collaborative engineer who can partner with developers, architects, and central technology teams to enhance software delivery, reliability, and operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Support adoption of agile and DevOps practices across engineering teams.
• Automate build, deployment, and release processes for on‑premise and cloud applications.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines and associated tooling.
• Contribute to architecture and implementation of microservices, containerised workloads, and serverless solutions.
• Develop automation solutions for environment provisioning, monitoring, and logging.
• Collaborate with cloud, platform, and development teams to enhance delivery efficiency.
• Maintain strong relationships with stakeholders to promote best‑practice engineering approaches.
• Contribute to continual improvement of engineering tooling, processes, and standards.
• Perform additional duties as required to support business and technology objectives.

Experience / Competences

• Essential: Degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent industry experience.
• Strong understanding of DevOps principles, automation, and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, and operating systems including Windows and Linux.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, C#, Java, JavaScript).
• Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar).
• Hands‑on experience with CI/CD tooling (GitLab, Jenkins, TFS, CloudBees).
• Experience with containerisation technologies and writing Dockerfiles/manifests.
• Working knowledge of infrastructure‑as‑code tooling (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK).
• Experience working within agile delivery teams.
• Understanding of multi‑tier architectures and application deployment patterns.
• Desired: Experience with monitoring, observability, and logging platforms.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes or managed orchestration services (EKS).
• Exposure to serverless architectures and microservices design.
• Knowledge of networking concepts relevant to cloud and distributed systems.
• Experience collaborating with cross‑functional engineering and platform teams.
• Ability to influence engineering improvements across multiple teams.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to non‑technical stakeholders.

Role Band & Level

Professional, 5. #LI-Hybrid #LI-ASO

Location: UK – 135 Bishopsgate – London

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