Senior DevOps Engineer

London (Hybrid: 2–3 days onsite)

£500-£520 per day | Outside IR35 | 6-month contract

Contact: Matthew.Makranczy@forsythbarnes.com

Overview

We are seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to support mission-critical platforms in the financial risk and compliance space. This is a hands-on role focused on CI/CD, deployment automation, and Kubernetes-based infrastructure supporting highly reliable, scalable services.

You will work closely with engineering and QA teams to ensure efficient, compliant, and traceable delivery across multiple environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and optimise CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment speed, reliability, and consistency.
• Automate deployments and environment configuration using infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform).
• Embed deployment best practices across development and QA workflows.
• Support production handover, incident triage, and defect prioritisation.
• Promote resilient, self-healing microservices and strong operational practices.
• Manage stakeholder communication and track delivery risks and dependencies.
• Maintain a strong understanding of end-to-end architecture and system integrations.

Required Experience

• Strong background in DevOps practices, tooling, and automation.
• Proven experience leading DevOps initiatives across development and operations teams.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Linux/Unix, and containerised systems.
• Experience building and operating deployment pipelines and debugging distributed systems.
• Knowledge of relational databases (SQL) and NoSQL technologies.
• Familiarity with modern architectures including containers, APIs, and streaming platforms.
• Experience working in Agile environments and using Git with established branching strategies.
• Ability to produce clear operational documentation (e.g. runbooks).