Job Title: DevOps Engineer (Payments Platform) – IKP / GCP / Jenkins / Linux / Oracle / Distributed Databases
Location: Sheffield, UK (Hybrid-3 days weekly from office)
We at Coforge are looking for Devops Engineer in Sheffield, UK.
Design, build, and run secure, resilient, and automated CI/CD and platform capabilities for a high-throughput payments environment. You’ll enable rapid, safe change through Infrastructure as Code, pipeline engineering, observability, and operational excellence across Linux-based workloads on GCP and IKP, integrating with Oracle and distributed database technologies.
Key responsibilities
* Engineer and operate DevOps tooling and platform services across IKP and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to support mission-critical payments workloads.
* Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins (Pipeline-as-Code), including reusable shared libraries, quality gates, and automated release orchestration.
* Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management to standardise environments, reduce drift, and improve auditability.
* Drive automation-first practices for provisioning, deployment, patching, and operational tasks (self‑service where possible).
Payments reliability, resilience & performance
* Deliver high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) designs aligned to payments RTO/RPO expectations.
* Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, and resilience testing (e.g., fail‑over, chaos‑style testing where appropriate).
* Support 24x7 production operations through robust runbooks, incident response, and continuous improvement (post‑incident reviews, problem management).
* Administer and troubleshoot Linux systems (process, memory, storage, networking, systemd, kernel parameters) in production‑grade environments.
* Manage secure connectivity, routing, and firewalling across hybrid/cloud networks (VPC design, subnets, DNS, load balancing concepts).
* Harden platforms using baseline controls, patching strategies, and vulnerability remediation aligned to enterprise security requirements.
* Support DevOps enablement for Oracle (deployment automation, schema migration tooling, backup/restore automation, performance monitoring).
* Work with distributed databases (e.g., multi‑node clusters, replication, sharding/partitioning concepts) to ensure reliability, scalability, and operational readiness.
* Implement database CI/CD patterns (versioned migrations, rollback strategies, environment promotion, data masking where required).
Observability & operational excellence
* Implement end‑to‑end observability: metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting, and SLO/SLI‑based monitoring.
* Improve MTTR through actionable alerting, correlation, and automation (auto‑remediation where appropriate).
* Champion DevSecOps: integrate security scanning and policy checks into pipelines (SAST/DAST, dependency scanning, container/image scanning, secrets detection).
* Partner with engineering, security, architecture, and operations teams to deliver compliant, auditable change in a regulated payments context.
* Contribute to technical standards, reference architectures, and engineering playbooks.
* Mentor engineers on CI/CD, IaC, reliability patterns, and operational readiness.
Required skills & experience
* Strong hands‑on DevOps/SRE experience in high‑availability, low‑latency environments (payments/financial services experience preferred).
* Proven expertise building Jenkins pipelines (declarative/scripted), shared libraries, pipeline security, and release automation.
* Solid experience with GCP services and cloud‑native operations (IAM, networking, compute, storage, logging/monitoring).
* Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting in production.
* Experience supporting Oracle in enterprise environments (automation, monitoring, backup/restore, performance tuning exposure).
* Working knowledge of distributed database concepts (replication, consistency, fail‑over, scaling, operational tooling).
* Strong scripting/automation skills (e.g., Bash, Python) and API‑driven integration.
* Experience implementing IaC and environment standardisation (e.g., Terraform/Ansible‑style approaches—tooling can be specified to match your stack).
* Understanding of SDLC, change management, and controls in regulated environments.
Desirable (nice to have)
* Kubernetes/container platform experience (build, deploy, operate; policy and runtime security).
* Experience with secrets management and key management (KMS/HSM concepts).
* Experience with service mesh, API gateways, and zero‑trust patterns.
* Familiarity with ITIL practices (incident/problem/change) and SRE practices (error budgets, SLOs).
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