DevOps Engineer

Summary: The DevOps Engineer role involves enhancing a tier 1 banking client's Jenkins Shared Library and delivering secure, efficient pipelines. The position requires expertise in CI/CD and DevSecOps, with a focus on optimizing performance and ensuring artifact integrity. The role is based in Sheffield, Birmingham, or Edinburgh, with a hybrid working arrangement. It is a contract position lasting 8 months and classified as inside IR35.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and maintain Groovy pipeline steps (build, test, package, scan, deploy).
• Extend Python tooling for SLSA provenance, SBOM generation, hash/digest accuracy, and security scan aggregation.
• Optimize performance (parallel builds, caching, scope-reduced BOMs, dependency prefetch).
• Ensure artifact integrity (correct SHA1/SHA256 mapping, reproducible inputs, evidence modeling).
• Refactor legacy scripts (remove global state, consolidate hashing, standardize templates).
• Document ci-config.yaml standards and usage patterns.
• Troubleshoot and prevent pipeline incidents.
• Mentor engineers on secure pipeline development and supply-chain practices.

Key Skills:

• 7+ years engineering; 3+ in CI/CD platform or DevSecOps.
• Strong Jenkins + Groovy shared library expertise.
• Advanced Python automation (JSON/YAML processing, tooling scripts).
• Deep Maven/NPM/Python packaging knowledge; exposure to Helm/Terraform and container image metadata.
• Supply-chain security (SLSA, CycloneDX SBOM, digests).
• Experience with SonarQube, Sonatype IQ, container and SAST scanning.
• Compliance Awareness.
• Proven performance tuning (caching, parallelization, dependency pruning).

Salary (Rate): £77.00/hr

City: Sheffield

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT