Our investment banking client has been present in the UK for more than 150 years, they're a long-term partner to British business. Today, the Group is formed of 10 divisions and employs 9,300 staff based in 21 core locations right across the country. Their role is simply stated: help clients achieve their goals by combining local know-how and global reach. In so doing, they seek to make a positive, sustainable contribution to both the UK economy and society.

On behalf of this organisation, AMS are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer for a 12 month contract on a hybrid basis with 2 days/week in our client's offices at London Marylebone.

Responsibilities of the role:

This role is part of a critical initiative to transform our client's infrastructure and application resiliency within their Risk Systems function. They will be overhauling their environment to ensure robust, scalable, and highly available infrastructure. This is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact by implementing DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) best practices, to minimise potential downtime and ensure continuity of service.

You will work closely with cross-functional teams to decouple applications from monolithic architecture, improve load balancer routing, and establish a one-click deployment pipeline. Your work play a crucial role in reducing the chances of outages alongside reducing manual intervention during potential system outages, ensuring immediate system recovery with automated processes.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will:

• Lead efforts to design and implement resilient IT applications using DevOps and SRE principles.
• Work on load balancers to decouple routing, ensuring no single point of failure in application traffic.
• Implement fully automated pipelines to replace manual tasks and enable one-click deployment and recovery processes in the event of system outages.
• Collaborate with SRE teams to implement robust monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions to ensure early detection of issues.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable, highly available infrastructure using tools like Ansible, Kubernetes, and Docker.
• Develop and implement automated disaster recovery processes to minimize system downtime.
• Identify opportunities for improvement in system performance, deployment speed, and scalability.
• Work primarily with Ansible and explore Kubernetes and Docker for high availability. Python or Java expertise is a plus.

What we require from the candidate:

• Proven experience in building highly available, resilient systems.
• Strong knowledge of decoupling applications and optimizing load balancer routing.
• Hands-on experience in setting up and maintaining pipelines for application deployment, ideally with one-click recovery systems.
• Experience with Ansible; some knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker.
• Experience building automation into environments with physical infrastructure as opposed to cloud.
• Familiarity with setting up monitoring and alerting systems for proactive issue identification and resolution (desirable).
• Proficiency in Python and/or Java (desirable).

Next steps:

If you are interested in applying for this position and meet the criteria outlined above, please click the link to apply and we will contact you with an update in due course.

This client will only accept workers operating via an Umbrella or PAYE engagement model.

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