Senior Software Engineer (Devops)
Posted 1 day ago by Insight International (UK) Ltd
Negotiable
Undetermined
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Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior Software Engineer role involves supporting the development of services on Public Cloud platforms, specifically leveraging expertise in Software Development and DevOps within GCP. The position focuses on designing and implementing resilient frontend and backend services, infrastructure automation, and cloud-native solutions in a high-availability environment at a leading financial institution. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in software engineering, particularly with large-scale distributed systems, and a strong proficiency in Golang and Python. Responsibilities include managing cloud infrastructure, building CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring compliance with security and audit standards.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop and maintain highly available, secure, and performant backend REST API services along with frontend client using Python, Golang, Docker and Cloud-Native services.
- Implement and manage database schema changes using Liquibase, ensuring alignment with compliance and audit standards.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in collaboration with DevOps and Security teams, with a focus on traceability and regulatory controls.
- Manage, monitor, and optimize cloud infrastructure across GCP, ensuring resilience, cost-efficiency, and data security.
- Collaborate closely with infrastructure, architecture, and cybersecurity teams to meet internal risk, compliance, and governance requirements.
- Support live systems, perform root cause analysis, and implement solutions for incidents and performance bottlenecks.
Key Skills:
- Software Engineering background with infrastructure experience.
- 5+ years of development experience with a strong focus on large-scale, distributed systems.
- Proficient in Golang and Python.
- Experience with Liquibase or similar tools for database change management and version control.
- Hands-on experience with GCP, including cloud-native services, networking, IAM, and cost optimization.
- Experience with other cloud providers such as AWS is desirable.
- Proven experience with DevOps practices, including Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform), CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI), and containerization.
- Strong understanding of security principles in cloud and enterprise systems.
- Familiarity with audit and compliance considerations in regulated industries, particularly finance or banking.
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills; ability to communicate complex information effectively.
- A successful track record of delivering complex projects and/or programmes.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Birmingham
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Role: Senior Software Engineer
Client is looking for a highly motivated and experienced Senior Software Engineer to support development of services hosted on Public Cloud platforms. You will leverage your expertise in Software Development , along with your DevOps proficiency across GCP , to design and implement resilient frontend client, backend services, infrastructure automation, and cloud-native solutions. This is an opportunity to work on high-impact systems within a secure, high-availability environment at one of the world’s leading financial institutions.
Key Accountabilities
Responsibilities will include:
- Design, develop and maintain highly available, secure, and performant backend REST API services along with frontend client using Python , Golang, Docker and Cloud-Native services .
- Implement and manage database schema changes using Liquibase , ensuring alignment with compliance and audit standards.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in collaboration with DevOps and Security teams, with a focus on traceability and regulatory controls.
- Manage, monitor, and optimize cloud infrastructure across GCP , ensuring resilience, cost-efficiency, and data security.
- Collaborate closely with infrastructure, architecture, and cybersecurity teams to meet internal risk, compliance, and governance requirements.
- Support live systems, perform root cause analysis, and implement solutions for incidents and performance bottlenecks.
Qualifications and experience
The ideal candidate for this role will have the below experience and qualifications:
- Comes from Software Engineering background with infrastructure experience.
- 5+ years of development experience with a strong focus on large-scale, distributed systems.
- Proficient in Golang and Python .
- Experience with Liquibase or similar tools for database change management and version control.
- Hands-on experience with GCP , including cloud-native services, networking, IAM, and cost optimization.
- Experience with other cloud providers such as AWS is desirable.
- Proven experience with DevOps practices , including Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform), CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI), and containerization.
- Strong understanding of security principles in cloud and enterprise systems.
- Familiarity with audit and compliance considerations in regulated industries, particularly finance or banking.
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills; an ability to communicate with impact, ensuring complex information is articulated in a meaningful way to wide and varied audiences.
- A successful track record of delivering complex projects and/or programmes, using appropriate techniques and tools to ensure and measure success.