🚀 We're Hiring: DevOps Engineer – Centre of Excellence (Cloud / CI/CD / Automation)

📍 Location: London, United Kingdom (Hybrid – Minimum 2 days onsite/week)
📅 Start Date: Immediate
💼 Engagement Type: Contract – Outside IR35, 12-month initial term(with potential for extension or permanent employment)
🏦 Industry: Financial Services / Technology Consulting

About the Role

We are seeking a highly capable and automation-driven DevOps Engineer to join a newly established Centre of Excellence (CoE). This strategic team is responsible for delivering secure, scalable, and production-grade digital platforms across multiple client engagements in the financial services sector.

This role is ideal for an engineer with strong experience in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code, who thrives in collaborative, high-accountability environments. The successful candidate will play a key role in enabling continuous delivery, platform reliability, and engineering excellence across the CoE.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support rapid and reliable software delivery
• Build and manage cloud-native infrastructure(AWS, Azure, or GCP) using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools
• Collaborate with engineering teams to automate deployment, monitoring, and scaling of applications
• Ensure platform security, compliance, and observability through DevSecOps best practices
• Participate in architecture reviews, sprint planning, and incident response processes
• Contribute to the development of reusable DevOps assets and CoE engineering standards
• Support the integration of DevOps practices across multiple delivery teams and client engagements

Required Skills and Experience

• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer in enterprise-grade environments
• Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD tools(e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)
• Proficiency in cloud platforms(AWS, Azure, or GCP) and containerisation (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation)
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog)
• Experience working in regulated environments such as banking, fintech, or insurance
• Prior experience working in or contributing to a Centre of Excellence team
• Strong scripting skills (e.g., Bash, Python) and automation mindset
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Desirable Attributes

• Exposure to service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio, Linkerd)
• Experience with secrets management and security tooling (e.g., Vault, Snyk)
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks (e.g., ISO 27001, PCI-DSS)
• Prior consulting experience or experience in client-facing roles

Engagement Model

• Outside IR35
• 12-month initial contract with potential for extension or permanent employment
• Hybrid working model: minimum 2 days onsite in London, with flexibility to travel to other UK client sites as required
• Part of a long-term strategic capability within a joint consulting and technology delivery partnership
• This is a strategic, reusable engineering role

What We Offer

• A high-impact role within a purpose-built Centre of Excellence
• Opportunities to work on complex, high-value projects in the financial services sector
• A collaborative, delivery-focused culture committed to engineering excellence
• Long-term career development within a respected and expanding consulting capability

📩 Interested? Apply now or reach out directly for a confidential conversation.