Senior Devops Engineer

TL;DR

Senior DevOps Engineer: Building pipelines, automation, and standards to help labs deliver faster and more safely across GCP and private OCP platforms with an accent on automation, pipelines, infrastructure and monitoring. Focus on raising engineering standards by sharing knowledge, reviewing designs and implementations, and supporting teams in adopting best DevOps practices.

Location: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in Manchester

Salary: £72,702 - £80,780

Company

hirify.global is rebooting an icon and building the future of finance.

What you will do

• Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and monitoring using GitHub, Helm, Harness, Jenkins, IBM DevOps Deploy and Dynatrace.
• Build and refine Kubernetes and Istio patterns across GCP and OCP, serving as a technical reference for adopting teams.
• Drive automation to reduce toil and improve stability, scalability and performance across DevOps services.
• Define and implement platform guardrails and standards to ensure secure, fast delivery.
• Use infrastructure-as-code and scripting (e.g., Terraform) to create reliable, repeatable environments.
• Partner with feature teams and central groups to coach on build, release and monitoring practices, and mentor junior engineers.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Istio and Helm, alongside solid experience with source code management and orchestration tooling in production environments.
• Proven cloud platform experience across public cloud (GCP) and private cloud (OCP/OpenShift), with a practical “keep it simple and reliable” approach with hands-on experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform.
• Understanding of technical architecture and Microservice design principles.
• Experience of continuous monitoring such as Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus, Kibana.
• Strong automation skills (infrastructure as code and scripting such as Python and/or Bash) to reduce manual steps and improve consistency.
• A collaborative approach—you build relationships easily, bring people with you, and enjoy helping teams adopt better ways of working.

Nice to have

• Experience of common programming languages, frameworks and testing tools e.g. Java Spring Boot/Quarkus, Node.JS & REACT, Selenium, Cucumber, Playwright.
• Experience of working with code scanning tools and vulnerability management.
• Understanding of networking including segmentation, subnetting, policies, firewalls and routing.
• Experience with managing secrets and certificates, working with tools such as Hashi Corp Vault.
• Experience of cloud optimisation, FinOps to measure and optimise cloud resources.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive environment that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.
• Wide-ranging benefits package.
• Generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top.
• Annual bonus award, subject to Group performance.
• Share schemes including free shares.