Albany Beck
Junior DevOps Engineer

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Junior DevOps Engineer
Company: Albany Beck
Location: Sheffield (Hybrid)
Start Date: Immediate
Client Industry: Financial Services
About Albany Beck
Albany Beck is a Management Consultancy focused on providing specialist talent and transformative solutions to Financial Services clients. We combine subject matter expertise with innovative delivery models that help clients scale efficiently, while offering meaningful, long-term career opportunities to our people. At Albany Beck, you’ll be choosing to work with an organisation that’s passionate about your learning journey and committed to your professional and personal development.
Role Overview
Albany Beck is growing its Technology Practice and is seeking a Junior Platform Engineer to join a next-generation Platform Engineering team supporting a critical Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) estate within a leading Financial Services environment, based in Sheffield. With the platform approaching end-of-life over the coming years, there is a strong focus on building junior engineering capability to support, maintain, and gradually transition the estate toward modern Kubernetes-based architecture. Successful candidates will work closely with platform specialists from the vendor ecosystem, gaining hands-on experience in a highly skilled, automation-focused environment. This role offers a unique opportunity to develop DevOps, cloud platform, and Financial Services experience, with a clear pathway into Kubernetes and cloud-native engineering roles longer term.
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Key Responsibilities
- Support the day-to-day operation of a critical PCF platform (Tier 0 systems)
- Monitor platform performance, stability, and availability
- Assist in troubleshooting incidents and supporting production issues
- Participate in a 24/7 on-call rota (once fully trained)
- Contribute to automation initiatives to improve platform resilience and reduce manual intervention
- Support implementation of self-healing engineering principles
- Assist in maintaining and improving CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes
- Work with tools such as Jenkins, Kubernetes, and CI/CD frameworks
- Support scripting and automation using Python or similar languages
- Manage and update tickets through Jira, ensuring accurate tracking and resolution
- Undertake structured training on PCF, DevOps practices, and Financial Services systems
- Work closely with experienced platform specialists to build deep technical knowledge
- Develop skills aligned to modern cloud platforms, particularly Kubernetes
- Contribute to longer-term platform evolution and migration planning
- Gain exposure to containerisation and cloud-native technologies
- Support knowledge transfer and documentation of platform processes


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Key Skills & Experience
- 1–3 years’ experience in a DevOps, Platform Engineering, or similar technical role
- Foundational knowledge of cloud, infrastructure, or platform environments
- Experience or exposure to:
- Scripting (Python or similar)
- Automation and CI/CD tools (e.g. Jenkins)
- Containerisation / Kubernetes (preferred but not essential)
- Familiarity with incident management and ticketing tools (e.g. Jira)
- Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to work in a technical, fast-paced environment
Desirable Experience
- Exposure to Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF)
- Experience in Financial Services or regulated environments
- Understanding of infrastructure-as-code or automation frameworks
- Knowledge of Linux/Unix environments
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