Devops Engineer

Ocho People; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Autonomy

Startup atmosphere

Founding DevOps presence in Belfast

Hybrid work flexibility

Job summary

Ocho People is seeking a DevOps/SRE Engineer in Belfast to join a fintech-focused team. This hybrid role involves building reliable infrastructure and release processes with a global engineering group.

You will partner with an existing DevOps engineer to move from reactive operations to a structured, repeatable process. This is an opportunity to establish the first DevOps presence in our Belfast office, with autonomy backed by an established firm and a startup feel, plus hybrid working options

Qualifications

• Experience with Nomad or a comparable container orchestration tool (Kubernetes experience is transferable).
• Experience with HashiCorp Consul and Terraform.
• Experience with monitoring/observability tooling such as Grafana and InfluxDB.
• Solid grounding in CI/CD pipeline design and infrastructure-as-code.
• Comfortable operating in an on-premise, non-public-cloud environment.
• Experience in a latency-sensitive or regulated environment (e.g. finance) is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Build out infrastructure-as-code practices across an on-premise environment.
• Own and improve CI/CD pipelines.
• Build out observability: dashboards, alerting and automated checks (Grafana, InfluxDB).
• Work closely with development teams to support and streamline release processes.
• Partner with an existing DevOps engineer and the wider engineering team.
• Support the move from ad hoc, reactive operations to a more structured, repeatable process.

Skills

CI/CD collaboration

Team collaboration

Tools

Nomad

Kubernetes

HashiCorp Consul

Terraform

Grafana

InfluxDB

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure-as-Code

Job description

DevOps / SRE Engineer

Hybrid - Belfast

Our client is a financial technology firm, part of a leading global financial services group. They provide high-performance, low-latency FX matching, and are now building out an engineering presence in Belfast.

Role Summary

They’re looking for a DevOps/SRE engineer to bring more structure and reliability to infrastructure and release processes, working closely with an existing engineer and a wider, globally distributed engineering team.

Key Responsibilities

• Build out infrastructure-as-code practices across an on-premise environment.
• Own and improve CI/CD pipelines.
• Build out observability: dashboards, alerting and automated checks (Grafana, InfluxDB).
• Work closely with development teams to support and streamline release processes.
• Partner with an existing DevOps engineer and the wider engineering team.
• Support the move from ad hoc, reactive operations to a more structured, repeatable process.

Requirements

• Experience with Nomad or a comparable container orchestration tool (Kubernetes experience is transferable).
• Experience with HashiCorp Consul and Terraform.
• Experience with monitoring/observability tooling such as Grafana and InfluxDB.
• Solid grounding in CI/CD pipeline design and infrastructure-as-code.
• Comfortable operating in an on-premise, non-public-cloud environment.
• Experience in a latency-sensitive or regulated environment (e.g. finance) is an advantage.

What's on Offer

• A high degree of autonomy.
• The backing and benefits of an established company, with a startup feel.
• The opportunity to be the founding DevOps presence in a growing Belfast office.

Benefits

• Company pension scheme.
• Private health and dental care.
• 25 days' annual leave.Opportunities to travel.
• Flexibility to work from home (hybrid).

Please apply now if you are meeting the above criteria or contact Andrew Harrison directly.