Devops Engineer - SC Cleared

DevOps Engineer - SC Cleared

Inside IR35

Hybrid - 50% on site

About the Role

We're seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join a highly skilled engineering team responsible for supporting and enhancing a business-critical, high-availability platform that operates as part of the UK's essential financial infrastructure.

This is an exciting opportunity to work within a complex enterprise environment where reliability, security, automation, and continuous improvement are at the heart of everything. You'll play a key role in the delivery, operation, and evolution of mission-critical services while helping to shape engineering best practices across the wider technology function.

Key Responsibilities

• Support, maintain and enhance critical production services and platforms.
• Lead and contribute to infrastructure, tooling and automation improvements.
• Maintain and develop CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
• Manage environments and oversee safe promotion of code through non-production and production estates.
• Work closely with architects, developers, platform engineers and operational teams to deliver robust solutions.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring and coaching to engineers across the team.
• Contribute to technology roadmaps, service improvements and strategic planning.
• Drive adoption of DevOps and Agile best practices.
• Support incident management activities, including major incident response and post-incident reviews.
• Participate in an out-of-hours support and release rota for a 24/7 production environment.
• Ensure operational standards, governance requirements and service level commitments are consistently met

Required Experience

We're interested in candidates who can demonstrate strong experience across:

• Production support within mission-critical or highly available environments.
• Kubernetes and/or OpenShift platforms, particularly in on-premise environments.
• Linux systems administration.
• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• CI/CD tooling, ideally Jenkins.
• Automation of build, deployment and release processes.
• Monitoring, observability and platform reliability engineering.
• Logging, metrics and alerting solutions including technologies such as:
• ELK Stack
• Splunk
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Leading or coordinating major incident response activities.
• Working within Agile delivery environments and modern DevOps practices.

What We're Looking For

Successful candidates will bring:

• Strong technical leadership and mentoring capabilities.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• A security-first approach to engineering and operations.
• Experience balancing operational support with continuous improvement initiatives.
• Strong documentation, governance and change management practices.
• The ability to thrive within a collaborative, cross-functional team environment.
• Exposure to cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS or Google Cloud.
• Relevant technical certifications across technologies such as Red Hat, Microsoft, Oracle, Kubernetes or Kafka.
• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electronic Engineering or a related discipline.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.