Senior DevOps Engineer
Executive Placements · North Riding
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We are looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join a leading banking environment.
This is a hands-on role where you will focus on AWS, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automation, cloud platforms, and operational reliability . You will work closely with developers, architects, security teams, and other engineers to build and maintain secure, reliable, and scalable technology environments.
The ideal candidate enjoys solving technical problems, automating processes, and improving how development teams deliver software.
Key Responsibilities
DevOps & Automation
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for reliable and repeatable software deployments
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Infrastructure as Code
- Develop deployment, release, and environment management solutions
- Improve developer experience through reusable pipeline and deployment templates
- Integrate security and compliance requirements into pipelines and infrastructure
- Identify manual processes and implement automation to improve efficiency
AWS & Cloud Engineering
- Work hands-on with AWS cloud services in a large-scale banking environment
- Build and support workloads using services such as EC2, RDS, EBS, EKS, ECS, Load Balancing, Secrets Manager, KMS, and Service Catalog
- Use AWS CDK as the primary Infrastructure as Code tool
- Work with CloudFormation, Ansible, and scripting where required
- Apply cloud networking concepts including security groups, DNS, TLS, routing, and load balancing
- Support secure, scalable, and highly available cloud environments
Reliability & Monitoring
- Improve system reliability, performance, and resilience
- Implement effective monitoring, logging, alerting, and dashboards
- Troubleshoot production and infrastructure issues
- Support incident response and identify ways to prevent recurring issues
- Apply SRE principles to improve platform reliability where applicable
- Work with application teams to troubleshoot performance issues, including Java-based applications
Collaboration & Mentorship
- Work closely with developers, architects, security teams, and other technical stakeholders
- Provide technical guidance on DevOps, AWS, automation, and reliability practices
- Participate in code reviews, knowledge sharing, and mentoring
- Promote secure, automated, and repeatable delivery practices across teams
Requirements & Qualifications
Must-Have Experience
- 7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or a similar engineering role
- Strong hands-
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