Infrastructure as Code

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using technologies such as Ansible, SaltStack or equivalent.
• Treat infrastructure configuration as version-controlled code.
• Build automated workflows for provisioning, configuration management and infrastructure lifecycle management.
• Develop reusable automation modules, roles and components.
• Implement automated infrastructure validation and configuration testing.
• Support the evolution towards fully automated, repeatable and self-service infrastructure delivery.

Testing & Quality Engineering

• Develop automated testing strategies for infrastructure code, applications and platform integrations.
• Write unit and integration tests for Python-based automation.
• Develop test harnesses and frameworks for validating infrastructure changes.
• Create automated pre-production validation processes.
• Ensure code changes are production-ready before release.

Platform & Systems Integration

• Develop software integrations across Linux, infrastructure platforms, APIs and enterprise services.
• Integrate third-party and internally developed technologies into the organisation's DevOps toolchain.
• Build automation around infrastructure APIs and management platforms.
• Troubleshoot complex integration issues spanning applications, operating systems, networks and infrastructure platforms.

Security Engineering

• Develop automated solutions for security vulnerability remediation across infrastructure and software platforms.
• Integrate security scanning and vulnerability detection into CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement secure coding practices across Python and infrastructure automation.
• Automate security configuration and infrastructure hardening.

DevOps Engineering & Continuous Improvement

• Work closely with Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, Security and Operations teams.
• Participate in technical design, architecture and code reviews.
• Contribute to DevOps engineering standards, development patterns and reusable tooling.
• Identify bottlenecks in development and deployment processes and automate them.
• Contribute to the continuous evolution of the organisation's DevOps platform.

Required Experience

Software Development

• Strong Python development experience in a professional engineering environment.
• Demonstrable experience developing production-quality automation, tooling or applications.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming, modular design and software engineering principles.
• Experience writing automated tests, including unit and integration testing.
• Strong experience with Git, source control and collaborative software development workflows.
• Experience with APIs, REST services and system integrations.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.

DevOps

• Strong commercial experience in DevOps engineering.
• Extensive experience designing and developing CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of continuous integration, continuous delivery and automated deployment.
• Experience implementing automated testing within CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management.
• Understanding of software release management and deployment strategies.
• Experience automating infrastructure and application delivery.

Linux & Infrastructure

• Strong Linux engineering experience, ideally across large-scale enterprise environments.
• Good understanding of networking, operating systems, infrastructure services and distributed systems.
• Experience troubleshooting complex issues across code, operating systems, infrastructure and automation.
• Experience supporting highly available and business-critical production environments.

Engineering Practices

• Experience working with Agile / Scrum or similar engineering methodologies.
• Strong understanding of SDLC and modern software development practices.
• Experience with peer code reviews and collaborative development.
• Ability to produce maintainable, well-documented and production-ready code.
• Strong understanding of development, testing and production lifecycle management.

Desirable Skills

• Perl development experience.
• Ansible, SaltStack or equivalent configuration management technologies.
• Experience with Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps or similar CI/CD platforms.
• Experience with Docker and containerised applications.
• Kubernetes experience.
• VMware / virtualisation technologies.
• Experience developing against infrastructure and cloud APIs.
• Experience with automated security and vulnerability scanning.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, logging and alerting platforms.
• Experience working within Financial Services or other highly regulated environments.
• Experience with public or private cloud platforms.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps practices.