Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS) - Up to £100k
hace 2 días
City of London
• Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS, microservices), • Up to £100,000 + performance related bonuses + benefits, • Hybrid-Remote in London (City) or Manchester Central | 3 days onsite We’re partnered with a global fintech infrastructure company operating at the core of financial services: the data control layer behind banks, asset managers, and trading institutions worldwide. Following a major acquisition the business is entering a significant scale phase, doubling headcount and investing heavily in its cloud and platform engineering capability This is high-scale, mission-critical infrastructure software, processing trillions in financial assets daily and ensuring the accuracy, reconciliation, and compliance of global financial data. Mission of the role: • Deliver scalable, automated, and production-ready platforms built on AWS with Kubernetes, Infrastructure-as-Code, and GitOps at the core, • 6 months into the role, you will have led a successful migration or go-live, have delivered measurable improvements in scalability and efficiency, and been recognised as a trusted authority in microservices delivery, • You will work in a wider Infrastructure / SRE / Cloud team of 15 What you’ll be doing • Design, build, and operate microservices platforms on AWS using Kubernetes (EKS/AKS), • Automate provisioning, deployments, and pipelines with Terraform, Helm, and CI/CD tools, • Lead technical delivery for customer projects, from discovery through to production go-live, • Migrate and scale services into microservices-based platforms with resilience and observability in mind, • Implement GitOps workflows (e.g. ArgoCD, Flux) to ensure automation and consistency, • Produce high-quality documentation, runbooks, and reusable modules to accelerate delivery, • Act as a senior technical authority, raising engineering standards and mentoring by example What we’re looking for Essential skills and experience: • Strong AWS cloud engineering background with Terraform / IaC, • Proven expertise in microservices design, deployment, and operations, • Hands-on Kubernetes orchestration (EKS/AKS), • Linux administration and scripting (Bash / PowerShell; Python desirable), • GitOps experience with Argo CD or Flux, • CI/CD pipeline development and automation, • Strong communication and problem-solving skills, • Track record of delivering service migrations and platform go-lives into production Nice to haves: • Helm chart authoring and advanced Argo CD usage, • Event-driven microservices (Kafka), • PostgreSQL in cloud environments, • Advanced CI/CD pipeline design, • Experience with Internal Developer Platforms (e.g. Backstage), • Multi-cloud exposure and/or Python development for tooling Why join • Work on large-scale, regulated financial data infrastructure used globally, • Major transformation phase following strategic acquisition and rapid scaling, • Opportunity to shape platform architecture during a key growth period, • Stable, PE-backed business with enterprise scale + modern cloud adoption