Job Title
DevOps Engineer
Department
Application Development & Enablement-BG-UK
Overview of Department
Purpose of Role
We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to act as the technical linchpin between our delivery streams and our Central Platforms team. Rather than building the underlying platform from scratch, your focus will be on ensuring our software engineering teams can seamlessly consume platform capabilities. You will remove friction, automate CI/CD pipelines, and embed modern DevSecOps and AI-augmented practices.
If you enjoy treating infrastructure as code, optimising containerised workloads, and mentoring developers to build a "you build it, you run it" mentality, this role gives you the autonomy to shape how we ship software within your delivery stream.
Responsibilities
1. Platform Collaboration: Partner with the Central Platforms team to define infrastructure requirements and feedback loops, ensuring the underlying architecture supports the specific needs of your delivery stream.
2. Pipeline Automation: Design and optimise CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, enabling application teams to deploy securely and rapidly.
3. Developer Enablement & Augmentation: Act as a technical multiplier. You will upskill delivery teams on modern cloud-native practices, containerisation, and platform tooling, while championing the use of AI assistants to reduce boilerplate coding and infrastructure tasks.
4. System Reliability: Collaborate across teams to diagnose complex infrastructure issues, optimise telemetry and monitoring, and improve overall system resilience.
5. Security by Design: Integrate application security and compliance checks directly into the deployment lifecycle.
Your Experience and Knowledge
The tech stack you'll use:
You do not need to be an expert in all of these, but you should have solid experience in the core ecosystem
6. Cloud & Orchestration: Azure, Kubernetes (AKS), Helm, Docker
7. CI/CD: Azure DevOps, migrating to GitHub
8. Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
9. Monitoring/Observability: Instana
10. Security and Quality: SonarQube, Wiz
11. Workflow Augmentation: Practical experience with AI coding assistants and LLMs (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT) to accelerate scripting and troubleshooting.
The Type of Candidate That We're Looking For
12. Possessing a proven background in software development or systems engineering, with hands-on experience building CI/CD pipelines.
13. Strong understanding ofcontainerisationand orchestration(Kubernetes) and cloud infrastructure (Azure).
14. Practical experienceleveragingAI tooling to augment engineering workflows, coupled with the critical thinkingrequiredtovalidateAI-generated configurations.
15. A systems-thinking approach to problem-solving and a low tolerance for manual, repetitive tasks.
16. Excellent communication skills with a genuine desire to mentor colleagues, bridge the gap between application and platform teams, and drive technical standards forward.
Critical Skills (not limited to)
17. Adaptability
18. Digital effectiveness
19. Enabling others
20. Systems thinking
21. Team Working
Additional Role Detail
On-Call: Not currentlyrequired. We are building for resilience first; however, as our operational requirements evolve, a formal on-call rotation may be introduced in the future (this would be supported by dedicated standby and call-out allowances).
Development: Continuous learning is a priority. We actively support upskilling and expect a proactive approach to dedicating time to masteringnew technologiesand modern engineering practices, includingrelevant certifications.
Working Model: The role requires weekly in office attendance at the Edinburgh office, enabling both deep-focus engineering and collaborative whiteboarding. The role cannot be done on a remote basis.
Closing Date
March 24, 2026
If you are currently working at Baillie Gifford as an employee or contractor please apply to this job from the firm's Workday internal career site.