Senior DevOps Engineer (Fintech)

Location: Belfast, UK; hybrid working with 3 days in the office and 2 days from home. Candidates must currently reside in Northern Ireland and have full UK Right to Work.

Salary: £60,000–£70,000 per year, depending on experience.

Company

Global provider of financial and commodities market infrastructure, connecting clients to liquidity and data through people and technology.

What you will do

• Lead the strategy and adoption of a three-year DevOps and software delivery modernisation programme.
• Build internal tooling and fully automated CI/CD pipelines covering development, testing and production delivery.
• Improve production stability, resilience, logging, monitoring and observability.
• Support application teams worldwide in adopting consistent tools and practices for agile, incremental delivery across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Architect containerised and serverless solutions and automate environment management.
• Work with vendors and service providers to introduce best practices and accelerate adoption.

Requirements

• Essential: experience leading transformation programmes that significantly improve DevOps and SDLC automation.
• Essential: experience building fully automated CI/CD pipelines as code, with integrated unit, integration and smoke testing, using tools such as GitLab, Jenkins, SonarQube and Nexus.
• Essential: deep and broad AWS experience; strong Azure or GCP experience is also considered.
• Essential: experience practising and leading DevOps in financial services or technology companies.
• Essential: experience delivering measurable productivity improvements and running metrics-driven continuous improvement.
• Essential: strong communication skills and experience influencing development teams to adopt new tools and practices.
• Strong advantage: proficiency in a scripting language such as Python, Go, PowerShell, Bash or Groovy, plus working knowledge of Java, C#, Node.js, Ruby or C++.
• Strong advantage: experience with Windows Server, Amazon Linux, RHEL and Ubuntu.

Nice to have

• Experience containerising applications, writing Dockerfiles and deploying to Kubernetes.
• Experience with SRE principles and observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus and CloudWatch.
• Experience working in Agile teams, such as SAFe, and with Lean delivery principles.
• Degree in Computer Science.

Culture & Benefits

• Lead a global engineering modernisation programme from strategy through delivery.
• Combine hands-on engineering with influence over how teams build and ship software.
• Shape company-wide tools and delivery practices.
• Hybrid working from Belfast with 3 office days and 2 home-working days.

Hiring process

• Contact Jordan Madden at jordan@hirify.globalpeople.com for a confidential conversation about the role.
• Visa sponsorship is not provided.