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# Senior DevOps Engineer

- **Company:** Ocho People
- **Location:** Belfast, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £60,000.0 - £70,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Agile Methodology, Microsoft Azure, Bash Shell, C Sharp (Programming Language), C++ (Programming Language), Ubuntu (Operating System), Linux, DevOps, Groovy, Python (Programming Language), Windows Servers, Cisco Nexus Switches, Node.Js, Windows PowerShell, Systems Development Life Cycle, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Prometheus, Ruby, Smoke Testing, Software Engineering, SonarQube, Datadog, Data Logging, Scripting, Grafana, Gitlab, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Cloudwatch, Serverless Computing, Jenkins, Golang, Programming Languages
- **Published:** November 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5952258264

## About the Role

* Experience leading transformation programmes that significantly uplift DevOps and SDLC automation is essential, and the single most important thing we are looking for.
 * Experience building fully automated CI/CD pipelines as code, with unit, integration and smoke testing integrated, using tools such as GitLab, Jenkins, SonarQube and Nexus, is essential.
 * Deep and broad experience with AWS is essential. Strong Azure or GCP experience will also be considered.
 * Experience practising and leading DevOps in financial services or technology companies is essential.
 * Experience delivering measurable productivity improvements and running a metrics driven continuous improvement practice is essential.
 * Strong communication skills and experience influencing development teams to adopt new tools and practices is essential.
 * Experience containerising applications, writing Dockerfiles and deploying to Kubernetes is highly advantageous.
 * Experience with SRE principles and observability tooling such as Grafana, Prometheus and CloudWatch is highly advantageous.
 * Proficiency in a scripting language (Python, Go, PowerShell, Bash or Groovy) and working knowledge of a programming language (Java, C#, Node.js, Ruby or C++) is a strong advantage.
 * Experience with Windows Server, Amazon Linux, RHEL and Ubuntu is a strong advantage.
 * Experience working in Agile teams (for example SAFe) and with Lean delivery principles is desirable.
 * A degree in Computer Science is desirable.

## Description

You will lead the modernisation of how software is built, tested and delivered, combining hands-on engineering with thought leadership. Working with a mix of internal and external teams, you will design the DevOps strategy, build the tooling and pipelines to deliver it, and bring application teams around the world with you, showing measurable gains in productivity, time to market and operational resilience., * Design the DevOps modernisation and adoption strategy, drawing on current industry practice and technology.

 * Engineer internal tooling that automates software development, testing and production delivery.
 * Lead the move to fully automated delivery pipelines, with testing built in, to remove manual overhead from releases.
 * Improve production stability and resilience through better process and observability tooling.
 * Support application teams to adopt a consistent set of tools and practices for agile, incremental delivery across cloud and on-premises environments.
 * Work with vendors and service providers to bring in best practice and accelerate adoption across the company.
 * Architect containerised and serverless solutions where appropriate.
 * Drive automation of environment management, logging and monitoring.