DevOps Engineer

About the Company

A leading international financial institution is undertaking a large-scale transformation across Markets Technology, driven by a combination of infrastructure modernisation, application migration and a broader push to improve engineering efficiency.

About the Role

As part of this initiative, a centralised DevOps capability is being established to support the migration and standardisation of a complex estate of applications, while introducing more efficient and scalable ways of working across teams. This role will sit within a newly formed central team, working across multiple Markets Technology groups to accelerate delivery, reduce duplication and improve the end-to-end software delivery lifecycle

Responsibilities

• Migration of approximately 90+ applications across Markets Technology
• Transition to new data centre environments as part of the GDC West programme
• Adoption of a standardised internal Kubernetes platform
• Migration to new object storage solutions and infrastructure models
• Replacement of existing workflow and scheduling tools (including Control-M) with modern alternatives such as Airflow
• Consolidation of DevOps practices across teams to avoid duplication and inconsistency in parallel, the organisation is introducing AI tooling within the engineering lifecycle.
• The objective is not to apply AI in isolation, but to use it pragmatically to remove bottlenecks, improve efficiency and scale successful approaches across the wider estate.

Qualifications

• Strong DevOps or platform engineering experience within a large, complex environment
• Solid exposure to microservice-based application ecosystems
• Experience deploying and managing applications on Linux (preferably Red Hat)
• Experience working with Kubernetes in an enterprise setting
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tooling (Azure DevOps preferred)
• Experience supporting multiple applications or working across teams rather than within a single isolated product
• Experience with workflow tools such as Control-M or Airflow
• Experience automating DevOps processes and workflows using AI

Required Skills

• Strong DevOps or platform engineering experience
• Experience deploying applications on Linux
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tooling
• Experience with workflow tools
• Experience automating processes using AI