DevOps Engineer - Banking Company - 6 Months - Inside IR35 - London - 3 days p/week onsite

Main Responsibilities

• Collaborate with application developers in XiP, the [Company] Tech and Infrastructure colleagues and 3rd party public cloud vendors to bring relevant public cloud infra and services into [Company] in a timely fashion.

• Work closely with [Company] Cloud Security team to ensure public cloud services undergo proper evaluations speedily, with business priorities upheld.

• Partner with multiple teams to ensure appropriate integration of functions to meet our business and technology goals.

• Identify and define necessary system enhancements to improve current processes and architecture.

• Provide expertise and advanced knowledge in DevOps engineering and ensure our processes adhere to best practices and the firm's strategic tech plan.

• Perform support tasks such as troubleshooting with clients and working with production support to triage production stability issues.

• Provide in-depth analysis with interpretive thinking to define issues and develop innovative solutions.

• Serve as advisor or coach to mid-level engineers and analysts, allocating work as necessary.

• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding [Company], its clients, and assets.

Required Experience

• Proven experience in creating DevOps solutions in enterprise container platforms, such as the public cloud Kubernetes Services in Amazon Web Services / Google Cloud, or on-premises platforms such as RedHat OpenShift.

• Subject Matter Expert (SME) in microservice architecture and container technologies such as Docker, Podman and Kubernetes.

• SME in Kubernetes related technologies such as S3, EFS, Lustre FSx, Kubernetes cluster autoscaler, Karpenter and KEDA.

• In-depth knowledge in using tools such as Terraform, Helm, kubectl, Hashicorp vault.

• Great understanding in managing vulnerability and maintaining strong security for applications and services running in public cloud.

• Investment Banking / High Performance Compute platform experience would be an advantage.

• Experience in Java programming and the Spring framework would be an advantage.

• Understanding of agile software development approach and experience in using developer tools such as Github, Bitbucket, JIRA, Artifactory and Jenkins.

• In-depth experience in analysing application metrics using observability tools such as Splunk, Elasticsearch and Grafana is highly desirable.

• Be flexible and agile to fast evolving technology and business demands and changing priorities.

• Demonstrated leadership and project management skills.

• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication.

Please apply should you meet the requirements.