£455 - £500 per day (Inside IR35 via Umbrella)
📍 Glasgow, Scotland (Onsite Monday - Friday)
📅 24-Week Contract
The Opportunity
We're recruiting for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join a high-profile technology programme with one of the world's leading financial services organisations. This is an on site role Monday - Friday in Glasgow, Scotland.
You'll become part of a fast-paced Software Engineering team, working within a critical delivery unit responsible for driving infrastructure improvements, automation initiatives, and cloud-based deployment capabilities across enterprise-scale environments.
This is an excellent opportunity for a hands-on DevOps professional who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, improving operational resilience, and collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams in a highly regulated and innovative environment.
Key Responsibilities
As a DevOps Engineer, you will:
Build, maintain and enhance development tools, platforms and infrastructure.
Design, develop and support CI/CD pipelines to streamline software delivery.
Drive infrastructure automation initiatives to improve deployment efficiency, consistency and reliability.
Work closely with engineering, operations and security teams to resolve complex infrastructure and deployment challenges.
Monitor system performance and proactively implement improvements to enhance scalability, resilience and security.
Support cloud-based environments and containerised applications.
Contribute to infrastructure design decisions, technical roadmaps and deployment strategies.
Provide technical leadership and guidance, sharing DevOps best practices across teams.
Ensure environments remain secure, compliant and operationally resilient.
Support incident management activities and assist with root cause analysis and service restoration.
Required Skills & Experience
Essential
Strong experience working as a DevOps Engineer in enterprise environments.
Advanced experience in Infrastructure Service Incident Management.
Proven expertise designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
Experience with infrastructure automation and deployment tooling.
Strong knowledge of cloud technologies and modern DevOps practices.
Experience with containerisation and orchestration technologies.
Ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex production and infrastructure issues.
Experience collaborating across multiple technical teams and stakeholders.
Strong understanding of security principles within DevOps environments.
Desirable
Experience with SRE Observability tools and practices.
Knowledge of Configuration & Release Management processes.
Experience with Cloud Automation DevOps frameworks and tooling.
Previous experience within financial services or other highly regulated environments
Salary description
£455.00 - £500.00 per day