DevOps Engineer

£455 - £500 per day (Inside IR35 via Umbrella)

Glasgow, Scotland (Onsite Monday - Friday)

24-Week Contract

The Opportunity

We're recruiting for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join a high-profile technology programme with one of the world's leading financial services organisations. This is an on site role Monday - Friday in Glasgow, Scotland.

You'll become part of a fast-paced Software Engineering team, working within a critical delivery unit responsible for driving infrastructure improvements, automation initiatives, and cloud-based deployment capabilities across enterprise-scale environments. This is an excellent opportunity for a hands-on DevOps professional who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, improving operational resilience, and collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams in a highly regulated and innovative environment.

Key Responsibilities

As a DevOps Engineer, you will:

• Build, maintain and enhance development tools, platforms and infrastructure.


• Design, develop and support CI/CD pipelines to streamline software delivery.


• Drive infrastructure automation initiatives to improve deployment efficiency, consistency and reliability.


• Work closely with engineering, operations and security teams to resolve complex infrastructure and deployment challenges.


• Monitor system performance and proactively implement improvements to enhance scalability, resilience and security.


• Support cloud-based environments and containerised applications.


• Contribute to infrastructure design decisions, technical roadmaps and deployment strategies.


• Provide technical leadership and guidance, sharing DevOps best practices across teams.


• Ensure environments remain secure, compliant and operationally resilient.


• Support incident management activities and assist with root cause analysis and service restoration.

Required Skills & Experience

Essential

• Strong experience working as a DevOps Engineer in enterprise environments.


• Advanced experience in Infrastructure Service Incident Management.


• Proven expertise designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.


• Experience with infrastructure automation and deployment tooling.


• Strong knowledge of cloud technologies and modern DevOps practices.


• Experience with containerisation and orchestration technologies.


• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex production and infrastructure issues.


• Experience collaborating across multiple technical teams and stakeholders.


• Strong understanding of security principles within DevOps environments.

Desirable

• Experience with SRE Observability tools and practices.


• Knowledge of Configuration & Release Management processes.


• Experience with Cloud Automation DevOps frameworks and tooling.


• Previous experience within financial services or other highly regulated environments.