Sr. DevOps Engineer

Synechron
Belfast, United Kingdom
3 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Belfast, United Kingdom

Tech stack

API
Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Bash
Cloud Computing
Continuous Delivery
Continuous Integration
Linux
DevOps
Github
Python
Routing
Nginx
Openshift
Powershell
Reliability Engineering
Ansible
Prometheus
Management of Software Versions
Data Logging
Scripting (Bash/Python/Go/Ruby)
Enterprise Software Applications
Load Balancing
System Availability
Grafana
Apigee
GIT
Containerization
Kubernetes
Deployment Automation
IBM UrbanCode Deploy
TeamCity
Api Gateway
Kibana
Terraform
Splunk
Api Management
Docker
Jenkins

Job description

  • Act as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for DevOps and release platforms including IBM UrbanCode Deploy (uDeploy), GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Tekton, and Harness.
  • Design, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines to support frequent, secure, and reliable software releases.
  • Drive DevOps, API platform (Apigee, APIM), and AI tooling adoption across enterprise applications to ensure high availability and reliability.
  • Implement and manage observability and monitoring using Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, Splunk, and OpenTelemetry for proactive issue detection and resolution.
  • Define, measure, and track SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs to improve service reliability and operational transparency.
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning and operational workflows using Terraform, Ansible, and scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell) for scalable, repeatable deployments.
  • Support and optimize containerized and cloud-native workloads on Kubernetes, OpenShift, and AWS, ensuring best practices for scalability, resiliency, and security.
  • Manage API traffic routing, load balancing, versioning, and secure deployments using NGINX, Apigee, and enterprise API gateways.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot production issues, optimize performance, and drive continuous improvement across systems and platforms.

Requirements

Do you have experience in Terraform?, We are seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to lead enterprise-scale automation, platform reliability, and continuous delivery initiatives. This role demands deep expertise across DevOps, AWS Cloud, CI/CD engineering, infrastructure automation, container platforms, and API management. The Senior DevOps Engineer will serve as a technical SME for DevOps, release engineering, observability, and cloud-native architectures-driving high availability, performance, and operational excellence across enterprise applications., Hands-on experience with:

  • AWS Cloud services and cloud-native architectures
  • CI/CD tools: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, TeamCity, Tekton, Harness, uDeploy
  • Infrastructure automation: Terraform, Ansible
  • Containerization & orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift
  • API management: Apigee, APIM, NGINX

Strong expertise with Linux, Git, and scripting languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell).

Strong understanding of monitoring, observability, logging, and reliability engineering.

  • Proven experience in designing scalable, secure, and automated deployment practices.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Certifications in AWS, Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD), Terraform, or DevOps disciplines.
  • Experience with AI-based tooling for operations, predictive monitoring, or automated remediation.
  • Strong understanding of security best practices in CI/CD, cloud, and API management.

About the company

Synechron is a leading digital transformation consulting firm dedicated to delivering innovative technology solutions within banking, financial services, and insurance. We thrive on engineering excellence, collaboration, and a passion for cutting-edge technologies., Synechron are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative 'Same Difference' is committed to fostering an inclusive culture - promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We offer flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programmes to support our global workforce. Empowerment and collaboration are at the core of how we operate.

Apply for this position