Senior DevOps Engineer

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Senior DevOps Engineer – 6-month contract – London/Remote – SC Clearance – Inside IR35

My Financial Customer is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join a growing technology team responsible for maintaining and evolving a complex on-premise platform. This role will play a key part in ensuring the reliability, performance, and continuous improvement of the organisation’s technical estate while supporting the delivery of new services.

This Senior DevOps Engineer is required to have experience with the following: Cloud Platform (Azure, AWS, or GCP), Kubernetes, IaC using Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.

Skills & Experience required from the Senior DevOps Engineer:

Active SC Clearance
Cloud Platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
Strong experience supporting production environments, including on-call support and release management.
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes or OpenShift in on-premise environments.
Proven background in Linux system administration
Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code, ideally using Terraform, integrated with CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins.
Observability platforms including logging, monitoring, and alerting tools such as ELK, Splunk, Prometheus, or Grafana.
Experience improving DevOps tooling and contributing to technology roadmaps.
Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies and modern DevOps practices.
Experience working in the financial industry would be beneficial.
Key Responsibilities of the Senior DevOps Engineer:

Support, maintain and enhance the organisation’s core platform and supporting infrastructure.
Manage the promotion of code across environments, ensuring safe and controlled releases from pre-production through to live.
Champion continuous improvement and modern DevOps practices, helping teams adopt automation-first approaches across build, deployment, and release processes.
Provide technical mentorship and guidance to engineers, sharing best practices and supporting professional development within the team.
Collaborate with architects and solution designers to align technical delivery with long-term product and technology roadmaps.
Lead incident management activities, coordinating major incident responses and ensuring effective communication with stakeholders.
Support a 24/7 production environment, including participation in an on-call rota and out-of-hours release support when required.
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