DevOps Engineer

£455 - £500 per day (Inside IR35 via Umbrella)
📍 Central Glasgow (Full-Time Onsite)
📅 24-Week Contract

We're recruiting for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join a high-profile technology programme with one of the world's leading financial services organisations.
You'll become part of a fast-paced Software Engineering team, working within a critical delivery unit responsible for driving infrastructure improvements, automation initiatives, and cloud-based deployment capabilities across enterprise-scale environments.
This is an excellent opportunity for a hands-on DevOps professional who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, improving operational resilience, and collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams in a highly regulated and innovative environment.

As a DevOps Engineer, you will:

• Build, maintain and enhance development tools, platforms and infrastructure.
• Design, develop and support CI/CD pipelines to streamline software delivery.
• Drive infrastructure automation initiatives to improve deployment efficiency, consistency and reliability.
• Work closely with engineering, operations and security teams to resolve complex infrastructure and deployment challenges.
• Monitor system performance and proactively implement improvements to enhance scalability, resilience and security.
• Support cloud-based environments and containerised applications.
• Contribute to infrastructure design decisions, technical roadmaps and deployment strategies.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance, sharing DevOps best practices across teams.
• Ensure environments remain secure, compliant and operationally resilient.
• Support incident management activities and assist with root cause analysis and service restoration.

• Strong experience working as a DevOps Engineer in enterprise environments.
• Advanced experience in Infrastructure Service Incident Management.
• Proven expertise designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with infrastructure automation and deployment tooling.
• Strong knowledge of cloud technologies and modern DevOps practices.
• Experience with containerisation and orchestration technologies.
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex production and infrastructure issues.
• Experience collaborating across multiple technical teams and stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of security principles within DevOps environments.

• Experience with SRE Observability tools and practices.
• Knowledge of Configuration & Release Management processes.
• Experience with Cloud Automation DevOps frameworks and tooling.
• Previous experience within financial services or other highly regulated environments.