Senior DevOps Engineer

Join a global FinTech firm on an ambitious multi-year engineering modernisation journey. They are evolving how products are built and shipped, faster, safer, automated, and at scale, and now looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to help lead the transformation.

In this role, you'll drive the uplift of the DevOps capabilities across development, testing, and production delivery. You'll combine hands-on engineering with strategic influence, guiding teams worldwide to adopt modern tools, automation, and best-in-class DevOps/SRE practices. Your work will directly improve developer productivity, speed to market, and platform reliability.

Day-to-day

• Lead the strategy and implementation of our DevOps modernisation program.
• Build and enhance internal tooling to automate development, testing, and deployment.
• Create fully automated CI/CD pipelines to eliminate manual release overhead.
• Improve platform stability through better observability, monitoring, and process enhancements.
• Support engineering teams in adopting consistent tooling and cloud-ready delivery practices (cloud & on-prem).
• Partner with vendors to accelerate adoption of automation and DevOps best practices.
• Architect solutions using containers, Kubernetes, and serverless technologies.
• Drive automation across environment management, logging, and monitoring.

Essential

• Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent).
• 7-10 years' DevOps experience in major Financial or Technology environments.
• Proven success driving DevOps/SRE transformation and measurable productivity improvements.
• Strong expertise with AWS and modern DevOps/SRE principles.
• Hands-on experience automating tests within CI/CD (unit, integration, smoke).

Nice to Have

• Background working in Agile/Lean teams (e.g., SAFe).
• Knowledge of automation, CI/CD, and observability tooling (GitLab, Jenkins, Nexus, Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch, etc.).
• Experience across Linux/Windows environments.
• Proficiency in scripting (Python, Go, Bash, PowerShell, Groovy).
• Experience with programming languages (Java, C#, JavaScript, Ruby, C++).
• Strong understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, and pipelines-as-code.

Please apply if you are the above criteria, or contact Andrew Harrison directly.