DevOps Engineer
Posted 4 days ago by Infinity Quest
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
Manchester Area, United Kingdom
Summary: As a DevOps Engineer in Core Banking, you will be instrumental in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and supporting tools that facilitate the rapid delivery of high-quality software. Your role involves collaboration across various teams to enhance platform security and resilience while driving continuous improvement and adherence to banking regulations. You will also foster a culture of learning and inclusion within the team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, implementation, and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines using industry-standard tools.
- Champion DevOps best practices, including Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automated testing.
- Support the deployment and operation of microservices on cloud environments.
- Drive continuous improvement by identifying bottlenecks and automating processes.
- Ensure robust monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes are in place.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, learning, and inclusion within the team.
Key Skills:
- Strong engineering background with a deep understanding of DevOps practices.
- Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines and associated tooling.
- Proficiency with source control systems (Git) and code review practices.
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, Kubernetes, Docker, and Infrastructure as Code.
- Familiarity with monitoring, logging, alerting, and SRE concepts.
- Experience with test automation tools.
- Knowledge of messaging and streaming platforms and service mesh.
- Understanding of network protocols, security best practices, and compliance requirements.
- Curiosity, adaptability, and a commitment to continuous improvement.
- Exposure to large-scale, regulated environments.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Manchester Area
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
About the Role: DevOps Engineer As a DevOps Engineer in Core Banking, you’ll play a pivotal role in designing, building, and supporting the tools and processes that enable our teams to deliver high-quality software at pace. You’ll work collaboratively across engineering, product, and operations teams to ensure our platform is secure, resilient, and continuously improving.
What you’ll do:
- Design, implementation, and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines using industry-standard tools (e.g., Jenkins, Harness Git, Nexus, SonarQube, Docker, Kubernetes).
- Champion DevOps best practices, including Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automated testing, monitoring, and observability, ensuring compliance with banking regulations and internal security standards.
- Support the deployment and operation of microservices on both private and public cloud environments, leveraging container orchestration (Kubernetes) and service mesh (Istio) where appropriate.
- Drive continuous improvement by identifying bottlenecks, automating manual processes, and sharing knowledge across engineering teams.
- Ensure robust monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes are in place to maintain high availability and reliability of banking services.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, learning, and inclusion, supporting the professional development of team members and promoting diversity in all its forms.
What we’re looking for:
- Strong engineering background with a deep understanding of DevOps practices, processes, and supporting tools.
- Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines and associated DevOps tooling (Jenkins, Harness, Backstage, Git, Nexus, SonarQube, Docker, Kubernetes).
- Proficiency with source control systems (Git), including branching strategies and code review practices.
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (especially GCP), Kubernetes, Docker, and Infrastructure as Code.
- Familiarity with monitoring, logging, alerting, and SRE concepts (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.).
- Experience with test automation tools (JUnit, Cucumber, Selenium, Postman).
- Knowledge of messaging and streaming platforms (Kafka) and service mesh (Istio).
- Understanding of network protocols, security best practices, and compliance requirements for banking.
- Curiosity, adaptability, and a commitment to continuous improvement and inclusive teamwork.
- Experience with network protocols & security.
- Exposure to large-scale, regulated environments (preferably financial services).
- Knowledge of additional DevOps tools and emerging technologies.