Senior DevOps Engineer

**Senior DevOps Engineer - AWS or Azure**

Our client is one of the UK's leading financial services organisations, currently recruiting for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join their team. **This role can be based anywhere in the UK and will involve being part of an on call rota.**

Working as part of an engineering team responsible for the CI / CD platform, you will be part of a team on a mission to deliver a cutting-edge internal DevOps platform to scale the DevOps practices and improve the Developer Experience. You will be responsiblefor the delivery of Cloud hosted (AWS/Azure) and SaaS CI/CD platform solutions alongside providing consultancy and support services as required.

Our client truly invests in their people to ensure multi-functional engineers who can retain their skills within the organisation and you'll be working on something truly meaningful with a supportive and close-knit team.

**As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for the following**:

- Lead & influence architectural & design decisions for the platform
- Collaborate with architecture, security, engineering teams and the wider engineering community to set up best in class Cloud and CI/CD platforms and subsequently provide guidance on their consumption.
- Lead the engineering of our internal DevOps platform solutions, from design, through build, and run
- Build automation throughout the process for improving developer productivity and efficiency.
- Engineering the CI/CD Pipeline templates & provide timely assistance to the Developer community.
- Manage stakeholder relationships with Product Owner, Scrum & the consumers.
- Coach and collaborate with a diverse team to establish and evolve code security capabilities and help to embed best practices.
- Assist Technical Lead in building the future CI/CD roadmap.
- Line Management responsibility within a feature team to include capability development, coaching, nurturing, performance management and pastoral support - Team sizes will range between 2-8 Engineers
- Bring a high level of motivation and enthusiasm to the team, always looking for ways to expand your own skillset and searching for ways to do things better and quicker.

**To be successful in this role, we are looking for an individual to hold some of the following skills and experience**:

- You love working on new initiatives and are comfortable establishing the foundations for others to build on, with the opportunity to influence technology choices and future direction.
- You are eager to technically lead and stay hands-on with technology, so they can continue to innovate, learn and create.
- You are passionate about solving complex DevOps problems, building DevOps pipelines, and working with CI/CD technology - Proven experience using **Terraform**, **Kubernetes** & **Docker** but not limited to these technologies as we also use Harness, Artifactory, Jenkins, GitHub, SNYK, SonarQube, Ansible, GitHub Actions & ELK across our Platform.
- Recent experience working with **AWS**or Azure using infrastructure as code as well as **container platforms** such as Kubernetes, OpenShift, EKS, AKS.
- Are confident coding in languages such as **python** or **shell scripting**.
- Previous experience working in at least one of the following programming languages: Python, Java,.net core, Go, Javascript, Typescript
- Can adopt the principles of SRE
- Can automate the deployment and monitoring of services in public cloud platforms.
- Can Implement changes/improvements to production services, ensuring service uptime.

In return you will get access to a great selection of employee benefits:

- A personal pension - if you put in 7% of your salary then the organisation will top up by a further 16%
- Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
- Life assurance worth 8x your salary
- Access to an annual performance related bonus
- Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
- 25 days holiday

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