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Senior DevOps Engineer – Build Pipelines
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Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer – Build Pipelines
Industry: Financial Services / Asset Management
Location: London / Hybrid
Level: Senior
Focus: DevOps / CI/CD / Platform Engineering / DevSecOps
Core Technology Stack
GitHub Enterprise | GitHub Actions | Azure DevOps | Octopus Deploy | Azure | Windows Server | IIS | PowerShell | Python | Prometheus | Grafana | Datadog | SonarQube | Snyk | C#/.NET | Python
About the Opportunity
We are partnering with a global asset management organisation to modernise and standardise build and deployment pipelines across a large application estate.
The organisation is looking for Senior DevOps Engineers to join a high-performing engineering squad focused on improving CI/CD, automation, security, and deployment practices across the business.
The Engagement
The team is undertaking a major initiative to standardise and modernise build and deployment pipelines across a diverse application estate.
The environment consists primarily of C#/.NET and Python services, with different teams having historically adopted their own build conventions, deployment mechanisms, and tooling.
The objective is to establish a small number of opinionated, reusable, and well-supported pipeline patterns that engineering teams can adopt with minimal bespoke configuration.
You will work closely with application engineering teams to design, implement, and roll out these standards, with a strong focus on:
- Repeatable CI/CD
- Automation
- Security
- Quality gates
- Observability
- Deployment consistency
- Developer experience
- Platform engineering principles
This is a hands-on engineering role, rather than a traditional operational DevOps position.
The Role
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will take ownership of designing and implementing reusable build and deployment capabilities across the organisation.
You will work as part of a small team of experienced DevOps engineers, collaborating directly with application developers and technical stakeholders.
A key part of the role will be creating standardised GitHub Actions workflows that can be consumed by multiple development teams while supporting different applications and deployment environments.
You will also play a significant role in migrating existing pipelines away from legacy tooling and establishing modern CI/CD practices across the estate.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
CI/CD & Pipeline Engineering
- Design and develop reusable GitHub Actions workflows and pipeline templates.
- Build standardised CI/CD patterns covering:
- Build
- Unit testing
- Integration testing
- Static analysis
- Security scanning
- Packaging
- Artifact management
- Promotion
- Deployment
- Create modular and maintainable pipeline components for multiple application teams.
- Establish consistent pipeline standards across different technology stacks.
- Improve build performance, reliability, and developer experience.
- Automate repetitive build and deployment processes.
GitHub Actions & Enterprise GitHub
- Develop enterprise-grade workflows using GitHub Actions.
- Work with reusable workflows, actions, secrets, environments, and deployment controls.
- Establish appropriate controls around pipeline permissions and access.
- Help application teams migrate existing processes into standard GitHub-based workflows.
- Promote best practices around source control, branching, releases, and deployment automation.
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Azure DevOps Migration
- Migrate existing Azure DevOps pipelines onto standardised GitHub Actions workflows.
- Analyse existing pipeline functionality and ensure important capabilities are retained during migration.
- Identify opportunities to simplify and improve legacy build processes.
- Support development teams throughout the migration and adoption process.
Deployment Automation
- Develop deployment patterns supporting both cloud and on-premise environments.
- Work with Windows-based infrastructure, including long-lived VM and server environments.
- Support deployment into IIS and Windows Server environments.
- Integrate deployment tooling such as Octopus Deploy.
- Develop automation using PowerShell and Python.
- Build repeatable promotion mechanisms across development, testing, and production environments.
Security & Quality
- Embed security and quality directly into the standard pipeline.
You will work with technologies and practices including:
- SonarQube
- SAST
- DAST
- Dependency scanning
- CVE / vulnerability scanning
- Container/image scanning
- Image signing
- Security and quality thresholds
- Automated quality gates
The objective is for security and quality controls to be enabled by default across the application estate.
Observability
- Integrate pipeline and deployment processes with appropriate monitoring and observability tooling.
- Help teams understand build and deployment health.
- Work with technologies such as:
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Datadog
- Establish useful metrics and visibility around pipeline execution and deployments.
Engineering Enablement
- Work directly with application engineering teams to implement new standards.
- Provide practical examples and reference implementations.
- Produce clear technical documentation.
- Help teams adopt reusable pipeline patterns.
- Act as a technical advocate for modern DevOps and platform engineering practices.
- Raise engineering standards for CI/CD across the organisation.
Technical Environment
CI/CD
- GitHub Enterprise
- GitHub Actions
- Azure DevOps
- Octopus Deploy
Cloud & Infrastructure
- Microsoft Azure
- Windows Server
- Windows VMs
- IIS
- On-premise infrastructure
- Hybrid environments
Automation & Scripting
- PowerShell
- Python
- Bash or other scripting languages beneficial
Observability
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Datadog
Security & Software Supply Chain
- SonarQube
- Snyk or equivalent
- SAST
- DAST
- Dependency/CVE scanning
- Image/container signing
- Software supply-chain security
Application Technologies
The Pipelines Will Primarily Support
- C# /.NET
- Modern.NET
- Legacy.NET
- Python
- WPF
- WCF
You do not need to be an application developer, but experience supporting pipelines for.NET and/or Python applications would be highly valuable.
Requirements
Essential Skills & Experience
- Strong commercial experience as a DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, Build Engineer, or similar.
- Strong hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Excellent experience with GitHub Actions.
- Experience creating reusable workflows, templates, or pipeline frameworks.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD architecture and best practices.
- Experience working with GitHub Enterprise or large-scale GitHub environments.
- Experience with Azure DevOps Pipelines.
- Experience migrating or modernising legacy CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong scripting and automation skills using PowerShell and/or Python.
- Experience working with Windows-based environments.
- Strong understanding of automated testing and quality gates.
- Experience integrating security tooling into CI/CD pipelines.
- Good understanding of software supply-chain security and dependency management.
- Experience working with enterprise development teams and complex application estates.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work directly with developers and technical stakeholders.
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Nice to Have
Desirable Experience
- Experience with some of the following would be advantageous:
- Octopus Deploy
- Microsoft Azure
- IIS
- On-premise Windows infrastructure
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Datadog
- SonarQube
- Snyk
- SAST / DAST tooling
- Containerisation and image signing
- .NET build pipelines
- Python application pipelines
- Infrastructure as Code
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Artifact repositories
- Release management
- Platform engineering
- Developer self-service platforms
The Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate is someone who goes beyond simply maintaining existing pipelines.
You should be comfortable asking:
"How can we build this once and allow every engineering team to use it?"
You will ideally have experience taking fragmented or inconsistent CI/CD environments and turning them into simple, reusable, and scalable engineering platforms.
We are particularly interested in engineers who can combine:
- Deep technical DevOps expertise
- Strong automation skills
- CI/CD architecture
- Security awareness
- Enterprise-scale engineering experience
- Developer enablement
- A pragmatic, hands-on approach
You should be comfortable getting into the detail, writing the automation yourself, and working directly with development teams to make it successful.
Role Summary
Role: Senior DevOps Engineer – Build Pipelines
Industry: Financial Services / Asset Management
Location: London / Hybrid
Level: Senior
Focus: DevOps / CI/CD / Platform Engineering / DevSecOps
We Offer
- Opportunity to work on bleeding-edge projects
- Work with a highly motivated and dedicated team
- Competitive salary
- Flexible schedule
- Benefits package - medical insurance, sports
- Corporate social events
- Professional development opportunities
- Well-equipped office
About Us
Grid Dynamics (NASDAQ: GDYN) is a leading provider of technology consulting, platform and product engineering, AI, and advanced analytics services. Fusing technical vision with business acumen, we solve the most pressing technical challenges and enable positive business outcomes for enterprise companies undergoing business transformation. A key differentiator for Grid Dynamics is our 8 years of experience and leadership in enterprise AI, supported by profound expertise and ongoing investment in data, analytics, cloud & DevOps, application modernization, and customer experience. Founded in 2006, Grid Dynamics is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices across the Americas, Europe, and India.
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