The Opportunity
Join a leading global financial services organisation as a Principal DevOps Engineer, shaping the future of cloud infrastructure, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and platform engineering. This is a senior, hands-on technical leadership role focused on AWS, Kubernetes, GitOps and AI-powered automation-not simply build and release pipelines.
You'll help engineer highly available, resilient platforms while improving developer productivity and operational excellence across a fast-paced engineering environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and adoption of SRE, GitOps and platform engineering practices, improving reliability, scalability and developer experience.
- Architect and operate cloud-native solutions on AWS and Kubernetes, including infrastructure modernisation and migration.
- Design and enhance enterprise CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code and self-service Internal Developer Platforms using tools such as Terraform, Jenkins, Argo CD and Flux CD.
- Drive observability, incident management, root cause analysis and resilience engineering across mission-critical distributed systems.
- Introduce AI-assisted engineering, AIOps and emerging agentic workflows to automate operational tasks, reduce manual effort and improve delivery outcomes.
About You
- Extensive DevOps/SRE experience, ideally 9+ years, with the technical leadership and communication skills to influence engineering teams and stakeholders.
- Strong hands-on expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, cloud-native architecture and distributed systems.
- Proven experience with GitOps and CI/CD pipelines, including tools such as Argo CD, Flux CD, Jenkins and progressive delivery solutions.
- Strong automation and Infrastructure as Code skills using Python, Shell scripting, Terraform, CloudFormation or Ansible.
- Experience with observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk or OpenTelemetry, alongside an interest in AI-assisted development, AIOps and operational automation.
Experience building Internal Developer Platforms, applying chaos engineering or implementing AI-driven operational workflows would be advantageous.
Apply Now
If you're a senior DevOps or SRE engineer who enjoys shaping platform strategy while remaining hands-on with complex engineering challenges, we'd like to hear from you. Apply today to discuss this opportunity.