Remuneration
Not specified
Location
London, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Sponsors visa
Job summary
The Senior DevOps Engineer supports and improves a bank’s on-premise applications, infrastructure, and technical estate, ensuring reliable operations and safe software releases. The role includes 24/7 production support, incident leadership, environment management, automation, technology roadmaps, and mentoring across teams. It uses Kubernetes or OpenShift, Linux, Terraform, Jenkins, cloud platforms, and observability tools including ELK, Splunk, Prometheus, and Grafana.
Qualifications
- Production support experience, including out-of-hours on-call and release support.
- Experience deploying Kubernetes or OpenShift on-premise.
- Hands-on experience upgrading DevOps tooling, resolving issues, and delivering roadmap improvements.
- Linux systems administration experience in high-availability production environments.
- Experience with Terraform and CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins.
- Experience designing or operating logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerting with ELK, Splunk, Prometheus, or Grafana.
- Understanding of Agile and modern DevOps practices, including coordinating priorities across teams.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Security-first approach and experience with secure systems and processes.
- Leadership experience in mentoring, technical guidance, training, stakeholder collaboration, or strategic planning.
- Experience maintaining documentation, meeting SLAs, managing environments, and following change governance.
- Financial, accounting, or payments systems experience is desirable.
- Relevant industry qualifications, such as Oracle, Red Hat, Microsoft, or Kafka qualifications, are desirable.
Responsibilities
- Support, maintain, and improve applications and infrastructure.
- Maintain the DevOps toolchain and wider technical estate.
- Manage environments and promote code safely from pre-production to live.
- Maintain day-to-day and recovery procedures.
- Provide in-hours and out-of-hours support for a 24/7 production environment.
- Lead major incident response, coordinate stakeholders, and support post-incident reviews.
- Develop and maintain technology roadmaps and sequence changes across the estate.
- Guide solution designers on product roadmaps and domain architecture.
- Coach and mentor colleagues and contribute to domain-wide skills planning.
- Work with cross-functional teams to support deployment processes and continuous improvement.
Skills
AWSAzureGCPGrafanaJenkinsKafkaKubernetesLinuxOpenShiftPrometheusSplunkTerraformOracle CloudRHEL
Degrees
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, electronic engineer
Work schedule
24/7 production supportOn-call rotaOut-of-hours release supportStart-of-day and end-of-day working patterns
Industry
BankingFinancial servicesPayments
Relocation
No