DevOps Engineer - Banking

12-Month contract - Inside IR35 - market rate

Manchester based - hybrid working - 2-3 days a week onsite

Banking sector

• Kubernetes and OpenShift engineering. Builds, configures, secures and operates Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters and workloads for core banking, with attention to resilience and availability.
• Infrastructure as code. Designs and maintains Terraform modules and environments, with code review, testing and safe promotion.
• Internal developer platform. Builds and improves the IDP, including Backstage catalogue, software templates, plugins and golden paths, so product teams can self-serve safely.
• Continuous delivery. Designs and maintains delivery pipelines that build, test, secure and deploy core banking services reliably.
• Implements metrics, telemetry, logging, tracing and alerting, defines SLIs and SLOs with service owners, and automates runbooks.
• Platform engineering. Treats the platform as a product, improving its reliability, usability and cost with feedback from the teams that use it.
• Control engineering. Builds the bank''s resilience, security, change and audit controls into platforms and pipelines as automated, evidenced checks.
• Contribution to the team. Mentors junior engineers and shares knowledge.

Platform and delivery

• Builds and runs Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms, including cluster configuration, upgrades, capacity, networking, storage, security policy, operators and multi-tenant namespaces.
• Writes and maintains Terraform modules and environments across cloud and platform resources, with state management, testing and review.
• Builds and improves Backstage, including software templates, catalogue entries, plugins and documentation, and works with product teams to adopt them.
• Designs and maintains CI/CD pipelines with build, test, security scanning, artefact management, deployment strategies and rollback, using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Harness, Tekton or Argo CD.
• Supports releases of core banking services, and works with development, testing, security and operations teams.
• Treats the platform as a product, collecting feedback, measuring adoption and improving the experience for the teams that use it.
• Troubleshoots complex platform and delivery problems, and takes part in the on-call rota.

Observability and reliability

• Implements metrics, telemetry, logging, tracing and alerting using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana and OpenTelemetry, and keeps alerts actionable.
• Defines SLIs and SLOs with service owners, builds SLO dashboards, and uses error budgets to guide improvement work.
• Turns runbooks into automation, such as automated diagnosis and remediation for common alerts.
• Plans capacity, performance and resilience, and tests failover and recovery.
• Takes part in incident response and post-incident reviews, and follows up the actions.

Control engineering, team and development

• Builds the bank''s resilience, security, change and audit controls into platforms and pipelines, using policy as code, automated scanning, approval gates and evidence capture.
• Works with risk, security, architecture and audit teams to turn control requirements into automated, testable checks.
• Follows the bank''s security, regulatory and change management standards.
• Reviews peers'' code, pipelines and infrastructure changes.
• Mentors junior engineers, and shares knowledge across the team.
• Invests in their own development by working within the existing development framework.

Essential

• Several years of professional experience in DevOps, platform engineering or site reliability engineering, running production systems.
• Strong hands-on experience of Kubernetes or OpenShift.
• Strong hands-on experience of Terraform and continuous delivery pipelines.
• Experience of observability, including metrics, alerting and SLOs, and of automating operational tasks.
• Experience of building automated checks and controls into delivery and platforms.
• Clear communication and a collaborative approach within an Agile team.

Desirable

• Experience in a regulated environment such as a Tier 1 bank, and with core banking or other critical systems.
• Experience of Backstage or another internal developer platform.
• Experience of GitOps, policy as code and supply chain security.
• Certification such as CKA, CKS, Red Hat OpenShift or Terraform Associate, or a cloud certification.
• Experience of running a platform used by many product teams.
• Experience of mentoring or onboarding less experienced engineers.
• A relevant degree, or equivalent experience.

Disclaimer:

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission. Where the role is marked as Outside IR35 in the advertisement this is subject to receipt of a final Status Determination Statement from the end Client and may be subject to change.