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Senior DevOps Engineer (SC-Cleared)6 Month ContractHybrid - 2 days per week in the office (base office can be London or Leeds)Please note: An active SC Clearance is required for this roleOur high-profile Banking client is seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to join the team responsible for the Bank's Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) platform-one of the UK's most critical national infrastructure services.As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you'll join a collaborative multidisciplinary team, supporting the delivery, operation and continuous improvement of the RTGS platform. You'll work across the entire engineering lifecycle-from maintaining on-prem services to driving automation, mentoring colleagues, and shaping technical roadmaps.
Key Responsibilities:
* Supporting, maintaining, and developing changes across the Bank's RTGS solution.
* Coaching and mentoring colleagues on best practice DevOps approaches.
* Working closely with solution designers and helping shape domain-wide architectural and technology roadmaps.
* Managing deployments, environments, and recovery procedures for mission-critical systems.
* Participating in agile ceremonies and promoting continuous improvement and modern engineering practices.
* Providing in- and out-of-hours support to a 24/7 production environment.
* Owning major incident responses and driving post-incident reliability improvements.
Minimum Requirements:
* Strong production support experience, including on-call and OOH releases.
* Significant hands-on experience with on-prem Kubernetes / OpenShift.
* Linux systems administration in high-availability environments.
* Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, with CI/CD integration (Jenkins).
* Deep understanding of observability tooling: ELK, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana.
* Proven incident-management leadership.
* Strong knowledge of Agile and modern DevOps practices.
Essential Skills:
* Leadership and mentoring capability.
* Security-first mindset.
* Strong adherence to governance, SLAs and environment management best practice.
* Experience with cloud technologies such as Azure, AWS or GCP.
Desirable:
* Exposure to financial services systems or payments platforms. xsngvjr
* Relevant certifications (Oracle, RedHat, Microsoft, Kafka, etc.).
To apply for this position please submit your CV.
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.