About Synechron: Synechron is a leading digital transformation consulting firm dedicated to delivering innovative technology solutions within banking, financial services, and insurance. We thrive on engineering excellence, collaboration, and a passion for cutting-edge technologies. We are seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to lead enterprise‑scale automation, platform reliability, and continuous delivery initiatives. This role demands deep expertise across DevOps, AWS Cloud, CI/CD engineering, infrastructure automation, container platforms, and API management. The Senior DevOps Engineer will serve as a technical SME for DevOps, release engineering, observability, and cloud‑native architectures—driving high availability, performance, and operational excellence across enterprise applications. Job Location : Belfast, Hybrid Key Responsibilities Act as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for DevOps and release platforms including IBM UrbanCode Deploy (uDeploy), GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Tekton, and Harness. Design, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines to support frequent, secure, and reliable software releases. Drive DevOps, API platform (Apigee, APIM), and AI tooling adoption across enterprise applications to ensure high availability and reliability. Implement and manage observability and monitoring using Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, Splunk, and OpenTelemetry for proactive issue detection and resolution. Define, measure, and track SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs to improve service reliability and operational transparency. Automate infrastructure provisioning and operational workflows using Terraform, Ansible, and scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell) for scalable, repeatable deployments. Support and optimize containerized and cloud‑native workloads on Kubernetes, OpenShift, and AWS, ensuring best practices for scalability, resiliency, and security. Manage API traffic routing, load balancing, versioning, and secure deployments using NGINX, Apigee, and enterprise API gateways. Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to troubleshoot production issues, optimize performance, and drive continuous improvement across systems and platforms. Required Skills & Experience Hands-on experience with: AWS Cloud services and cloud-native architectures CI/CD tools : Jenkins, GitHub Actions, TeamCity, Tekton, Harness, uDeploy Infrastructure automation : Terraform, Ansible Containerization & orchestration : Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift API management : Apigee, APIM, NGINX Strong expertise with Linux, Git, and scripting languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell). Strong understanding of monitoring, observability, logging, and reliability engineering. Proven experience in designing scalable, secure, and automated deployment practices. Preferred Qualifications Certifications in AWS, Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD), Terraform, or DevOps disciplines. Experience with AI‑based tooling for operations, predictive monitoring, or automated remediation. Strong understanding of security best practices in CI/CD, cloud, and API management. Diversity Statement S ynechron are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We offer flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programmes to support our global workforce. Empowerment and collaboration are at the core of how we operate. All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.