DevOps Engineer AWS / Python / Cloud Platform

6 Days Old

We are supporting a Tier 1 financial institution in hiring a DevOps Engineer to join a specialist engineering team responsible for a cloud resilience platform used to protect critical applications running in public cloud environments. Sheffield (Hybrid

3 days onsite) Competitive day rate (Inside IR35) Initial 6 month contract This platform enables applications to recover from severe but plausible cyber events such as ransomware attacks and plays an important role in the organisations wider cloud security and resilience strategy. The successful contractor will join an established DevOps and software engineering team responsible for building, scaling and operating the platform across AWS and GCP environments. This role will suit a DevOps engineer with strong coding capability, ideally someone who originally came from a software engineering background. Key Responsibilities Supporting the build and maintenance of platform environments across AWS and GCP

Managing CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation

Supporting software releases through controlled enterprise production environments

Helping onboard internal applications onto the platform

Working closely with software engineers to support application lifecycle and deployment automation

Maintaining infrastructure and platform environments as adoption grows

Ensuring deployments comply with governance and release control frameworks

Supporting operational stability as the platform scales across regions

Key Requirements Must have significant Tier 1 banking experience

Strong DevOps engineering background

Strong experience working with AWS cloud environments

Exposure to GCP is beneficial

Strong coding capability, ideally with Python

Experience working in environments where software engineering and DevOps overlap

Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines

Comfortable working within regulated or enterprise environments

Strong collaboration skills and ability to work closely with engineering teams

Highly Desirable

Experience supporting internally built engineering platforms

Exposure to Go-based systems or environments

Location

This role is Sheffield based, with 3 days per week required onsite, this is a firm requirement therefore candidates should ideally live within a commutable distance of Sheffield.

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Location:
United Kingdom
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
IT;IT;IT