DevOps Engineer

Hunter Bond; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 66,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Hunter Bond is recruiting a DevOps Engineer in London with hybrid work arrangement. You will own automation, observability and platform reliability across a mixed on-prem and cloud environment.

You will design and enhance CI/CD pipelines, build dashboards, own service reliability, and collaborate with development teams to automate needs early in delivery.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on experience in Python/shell scripting and Linux environments.
• Experience with containerisation using Docker/Podman and CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI).
• Production-grade experience with distributed systems and basic network troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Design and enhance CI/CD pipelines using industry best practices.
• Build dashboards and alerting to maintain production and test environments.
• Own service reliability; investigate and fix recurring issues rather than firefight.

Skills

Python

Shell scripting

Linux

Containerisation

CI/CD tooling

Jenkins

GitLab CI

CircleCI

Docker/Podman

Kubernetes

Kafka

Distributed systems

Network troubleshooting

Tools

Helm

Ansible

Job description

London (Hybrid)

Salary: Up to £110,000 + Bonus

We're working with an established, global financial technology business, they're hiring a DevOps Engineer to sit embedded within a software engineering team, owning automation, observability and platform reliability across a mixed on-prem and cloud environment - a genuinely differentiated setup in a market where most roles have gone all-in on public cloud.

What you'll be doing:

• Designing and enhancing CI/CD pipelines using current industry best practice
• Building dashboards and alerting to keep production and test environments running smoothly
• Owning service reliability — investigating, resolving, and permanently fixing recurring issues rather than firefighting them
• Writing deployment automation with tools like Helm and Ansible
• Working hands‑on with Kubernetes and Kafka as part of platform integration work
• Collaborating closely with development teams and stakeholders to automate their needs early in the delivery lifecycle

What you'll bring:

• Solid hands‑on experience (3+ years, 5+ for senior) across Python/shell scripting, Linux, containerisation (Docker/Podman), and CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI or similar)
• A track record operating in production environments, with a strong grip on distributed systems and network troubleshooting
• Comfort with Git branching models and configuration management

Nice to have, not essential:

• Kubernetes and Kafka experience
• Experience in a highly regulated environment
• Familiarity with no-downtime/blue-green deployment practices
• iOS/mobile build tooling exposure (Xcode, Swift)