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# DevOps / Application Engineer

- **Company:** CBS Butler Limited
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Salary:** £143,000.0 - £169,000.0
- **Contract:** Contract
- **Skills:** Batch Processing, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Failover, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, High Performance Computing
- **Published:** August 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://itjobpro.co.uk/job/devops-application-engineer

## About the Role

* Strong Python development skills, particularly for automation & operational tooling.
 * Experience in DevOps, Production Engineering, Platform Engineering or SRE.
 * Experience supporting business-critical, high-availability applications.
 * Good understanding of CI/CD, deployment, monitoring and software development
lifecycles.

 * Knowledge of distributed systems, resilience, failover and capacity management.
 * Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills across applications and infrastructure.
 * Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
 * Proactive approach with strong ownership and problem-solving capability.

It would be an added advantage if you had any of the following:

 * Financial Services, Capital Markets or Trading Technology experience.
 * Exposure to risk, trading or regulatory technology.
 * Cloud, containers and modern DevOps tooling.
 * Large-scale distributed or high-performance computing environments.

## Description

Financial Services Firm is hiring for an experienced Application DevOps Engineer to join a high-performing engineering team supporting critical technology platforms.
This is a hands-on role focused on Python automation, production stability, application resilience and continuous improvement within a complex, high-volume technology environment. You will work across application, infrastructure and engineering teams to improve the reliability, scalability and operational performance of business-critical platforms.

Responsibilities:

 * Develop Python-based automation and tooling to improve operational efficiency.
 * Support and enhance critical production applications and services.
 * Drive improvements across resilience, availability, performance and capacity.
 * Manage deployments, releases, production readiness and failover activities.
 * Implement monitoring, alerting and observability solutions.
 * Troubleshoot complex application, infrastructure and batch-processing issues.
 * Identify root causes and deliver sustainable technical solutions.
 * Contribute to CI/CD, automation and wider DevOps and engineering best practices.


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