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Senior DevOps Engineer
6-Month Contract
London (Hybrid - 50% onsite)
Active SC Clearance Required
We are seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join a high-profile programme supporting a critical national payment and financial infrastructure platform. This is an exciting opportunity to work within a collaborative engineering environment, helping to deliver, operate and continuously improve highly available, secure and resilient services.
The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting and enhancing a complex technology estate, driving automation, improving operational excellence, and contributing to the ongoing evolution of DevOps practices across the organisation.
Key Responsibilities
- Support, maintain and develop enhancements across a mission-critical platform.
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring and guidance to engineers and wider stakeholders.
- Contribute to architecture discussions and advise on technology roadmaps and future platform direction.
- Manage and improve DevOps tooling, CI/CD pipelines and automation capabilities.
- Ensure the safe promotion of code through environments and into production.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies and promote DevOps and Agile best practices.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure successful delivery and operational readiness.
- Support the development and maintenance of technology roadmaps.
- Provide support for a 24/7 production environment, including participation in an on-call rota and out-of-hours releases where required.
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Required Skills & Experience
- Proven experience supporting production environments, including out-of-hours support and release activities.
- Strong experience with Kubernetes and/or OpenShift in on-premises environments.
- Linux systems administration expertise within highly available production environments.
- Strong Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, particularly Jenkins.
- Automation-first approach to software delivery and operational processes.
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as ELK, Splunk, Prometheus and Grafana.
- Demonstrable experience leading major incident management and driving service improvements.
- Strong understanding of Agile delivery and modern DevOps practices.
- Experience mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership.
- Security-focused mindset and experience working within regulated or secure environments.
- Experience working with at least one major cloud platform (Azure, AWS or GCP).
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Desirable Experience
- Experience within financial services, payments, banking or other highly regulated environments.
- Relevant certifications from Red Hat, Microsoft, Oracle, Kafka or similar vendors.
- Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electronic Engineering or a related discipline.
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