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.
Location: UK - 135 Bishopsgate - London