Senior DevOps Engineer
Posted 5 days ago by ECS Resource Group Limited
£600 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Summary: The Senior DevOps Engineer role is a 6-month contract position based in Glasgow, focusing on driving DevOps transformations within an existing development team. The position requires advanced knowledge of DevOps principles and practices, as well as experience in financial services. The role emphasizes educating teams, improving application build and release processes, and troubleshooting technical challenges. Candidates should possess a strong background in software engineering and relevant technologies.
Key Responsibilities:
- Educate teams on advanced DevOps principles, including DORA capabilities and modern CI/CD practices
- Help software development team to improve how they build and release their applications
- Support development teams in onboarding to a standard CI/CD pipeline
- Troubleshoot technical challenges including Legacy systems, tooling migrations, and testing gaps
- Encourage sustainable practices like test automation, trunk-based development, and containerization
Key Skills:
- Proven experience working as a Senior DevOps Engineer/DevOps Lead, with a background in Software Engineering/Development
- 5+ years working in financial services (Large retail banking)
- Technologies include: GitLab, TeamCity, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible
- Rust, .NET, Java, Python, TypeScript, Gradle, Conda, and other build/deployment tools
- Expert level understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and the ecosystem that surrounds them
Salary (Rate): £600 daily
City: Glasgow
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Senior DevOps Engineer
Initial 6-month Contract Role
Hybrid Working in Glasgow
£500 - £600, Inside IR35
We're recruiting on behalf of an IT Services Provider assisting them with a search for a Senior DevOps Engineer to drive DevOps transformations in an existing development team.
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Educate teams on advanced DevOps principles, including DORA capabilities and modern CI/CD practices
- Help software development team to improve how they build and release their applications
- Support development teams in onboarding to a standard CI/CD pipeline
- Troubleshoot technical challenges including Legacy systems, tooling migrations, and testing gaps
- Encourage sustainable practices like test automation, trunk-based development, and containerization
Proven skills and experience to help succeed in this role include:
- Proven experience working as a Senior DevOps Engineer/DevOps Lead, with a background in Software Engineering/Development
- 5+ years working in financial services (Large retail banking)
- Technologies include: GitLab, TeamCity, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible
- Rust, .NET, Java, Python, TypeScript, Gradle, Conda, and other build/deployment tools
- Expert level understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and the ecosystem that surrounds them
Please note, due to internal capabilities it will be difficult for us to take internal calls regarding your application - please direct all queries to (see below), and they will be responded to, alongside your application ASAP. If you haven't received a response within 1 working day, please call the direct line.
ECS Recruitment Group Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
