Senior DevOps Engineer

My Financial Customer is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join a growing technology team responsible for maintaining and evolving a complex on-premise platform. This role will play a key part in ensuring the reliability, performance, and continuous improvement of the organisation's technical estate while supporting the delivery of new services., * Support, maintain and enhance the organisation's core platform and supporting infrastructure.

• Manage the promotion of code across environments, ensuring safe and controlled releases from pre-production through to live.
• Champion continuous improvement and modern DevOps practices, helping teams adopt automation-first approaches across build, deployment, and release processes.
• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to engineers, sharing best practices and supporting professional development within the team.
• Collaborate with architects and solution designers to align technical delivery with long-term product and technology roadmaps.
• Lead incident management activities, coordinating major incident responses and ensuring effective communication with stakeholders.
• Support a 24/7 production environment, including participation in an on-call rota and out-of-hours release support when required.

This Senior DevOps Engineer is required to have experience with the following: Cloud Platform (Azure, AWS, or GCP), Kubernetes, IaC using Terraform and CI/CD pipelines., * Active SC Clearance

• Cloud Platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
• Strong experience supporting production environments, including on-call support and release management.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes or OpenShift in on-premise environments.
• Proven background in Linux system administration
• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code, ideally using Terraform, integrated with CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins.
• Observability platforms including logging, monitoring, and alerting tools such as ELK, Splunk, Prometheus, or Grafana.
• Experience improving DevOps tooling and contributing to technology roadmaps.
• Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies and modern DevOps practices.
• Experience working in the financial industry would be beneficial.