Devops Engineer

DevOps Engineer Job Description

About the Core Banking Platform

The Core Banking Platform is responsible for the systems that process payments manage accounts and deliver essential banking functionality. We serve all areas of the Bank that consume transactional data from our Core Banking Systemssupporting colleague and customer journeys regulatory reporting and real-time event streaming. Our platform is moving towards a modern event-driven architecture leveraging APIs cloud-native services and advanced DevOps tooling to deliver secure scalable and high-performing solutions. We work closely with partners across the Group including Data & Machine Learning Consumer Lending and Cloud Services to deliver strategic account data products and enable the next generation of banking services.

Were committed to continuous improvement modernising our tooling (e.g. migrating from Jenkins to Harness for CI/CD enabling blue-green deployments adoption of backstage as the Internal Developer Portal) and ensuring our engineers have the skills and support to deliver at pace and scale.

About the Role: DevOps Engineer

As a DevOps Engineer in Core Banking youll play a pivotal role in designing building and supporting the tools and processes that enable our teams to deliver high-quality software at pace. Youll work collaboratively across engineering product and operations teams to ensure our platform is secure resilient and continuously improving.

What youll do:

• Design implementation and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines using industry-standard tools (e.g. Jenkins Harness Git Nexus SonarQube Docker Kubernetes).
  

• Champion DevOps best practices including Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automated testing monitoring and observability ensuring compliance with banking regulations and internal security standards.
  

• Support the deployment and operation of microservices on both private and public cloud environments leveraging container orchestration (Kubernetes) and service mesh (Istio) where appropriate.
  

• Drive continuous improvement by identifying bottlenecks automating manual processes and sharing knowledge across engineering teams.
  

• Ensure robust monitoring alerting and incident response processes are in place to maintain high availability and reliability of banking services.
  

• Foster a culture of collaboration learning and inclusion supporting the professional development of team members and promoting diversity in all its forms.
  

What were looking for:

• Strong engineering background with a deep understanding of DevOps practices processes and supporting tools.
  

• Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines and associated DevOps tooling (Jenkins Harness Backstage Git Nexus SonarQube Docker Kubernetes).
  

• Proficiency with source control systems (Git) including branching strategies and code review practices.
  

• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (especially GCP) Kubernetes Docker and Infrastructure as Code.
  

• Familiarity with monitoring logging alerting and SRE concepts (Prometheus Grafana ELK etc.).
  

• Experience with test automation tools (JUnit Cucumber Selenium Postman).
  

• Knowledge of messaging and streaming platforms (Kafka) and service mesh (Istio).
  

• Understanding of network protocols security best practices and compliance requirements for banking.
  

• Curiosity adaptability and a commitment to continuous improvement and inclusive teamwork.
  

• Experience with network protocols & security.
  

• Exposure to large-scale regulated environments (preferably financial services).
  

• Knowledge of additional DevOps tools and emerging technologies.