Junior Devops Engineer

Junior DevOps Engineer

12-Month contract - Inside IR35 - market rate

Manchester based - hybrid working - 2-3 days a week onsite

Banking sector

Key accountabilities

• Kubernetes and OpenShift engineering. Helps to build, configure and operate Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters and workloads for core banking, following the team's standards.
• Infrastructure as code. Writes and changes Terraform for cloud and platform resources, through reviewed and tested code.
• Internal developer platform. Contributes to the IDP, including Backstage catalogue entries, software templates and documentation, so product teams can self-serve safely.
• Continuous delivery. Helps to build and maintain delivery pipelines that build, test, secure and deploy core banking services.
• Helps to implement metrics, logs, traces and alerts, SLO dashboards and runbook automation.
• Control engineering. Helps to build the bank's resilience, security, change and audit controls into platforms and pipelines as automated checks.
• Own learning. Takes responsibility for building their skills and acting on feedback.

Responsibilities

Platform and delivery

• Carries out defined tasks on Kubernetes and OpenShift, such as namespace setup, deployments, resource quotas, upgrades and troubleshooting, following runbooks.
• Writes and updates Terraform modules and configurations, with peer review, and applies changes through the team's pipelines.
• Adds and maintains Backstage catalogue entries, software templates and docs, and helps product teams to use them.
• Builds and maintains stages of CI/CD pipelines, including build, test, security scanning, artefact management and deployment.
• Supports releases of core banking services, and checks that deployments work as expected.
• Writes scripts in Bash or Python to remove manual steps.
• Raises and updates tickets, and keeps documentation, handover notes and runbooks accurate.

Observability and reliability

• Helps to set up metrics, logging, tracing and alerting, using the bank's observability tools, such as Prometheus, Grafana and OpenTelemetry.
• Helps to define service level indicators and objectives (SLIs and SLOs), and to build SLO dashboards.
• Helps to turn runbooks into automation, such as scripted or automated responses to common alerts.
• Joins the on-call rota once trained, initially as a shadow or secondary responder, and takes part in incident reviews.

Control engineering and development

• Helps to build automated checks that enforce the bank's resilience, security, change and audit controls in platforms and pipelines, such as policy as code, scanning and approval gates.
• Keeps evidence of changes and controls, and follows the bank's change management and risk processes.
• Follows the bank's security and regulatory standards, and asks when unsure.
• Takes part in Agile ceremonies, including stand-ups, planning and retrospectives.
• Invests in their own development by working within the existing development framework, with regular feedback and objectives.
• Shadows and pairs with senior engineers.

Experience

Essential

• A degree or equivalent in a technical subject, or demonstrable practical experience through projects, apprenticeships, bootcamps, internships or placements.
• Basic experience of Linux, Git and scripting in Bash or Python.
• Understanding of containers and Kubernetes concepts, through study, projects or work.
• Understanding of CI/CD and infrastructure as code concepts.
• Clear communication