DevOps Engineer and team lead

AdvancedMD; Knaresborough; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in the UK seeks a skilled individual to implement automated workflows and manage cloud resources. This role involves collaboration across teams, governance of CI/CD pipelines, and mentoring levels of engineers. Ideal candidates will have proven experience in IT with a focus on security and automated deployments, including tools like Jenkins and Terraform. Join us to drive technology excellence and innovation in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 6 years of experience in IT with complex technology solutions.
• Familiarity with security automation and policy frameworks.
• Experience with continuous integration build engines.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement automated workflows using Jenkins.
• Develop and maintain IaC pipelines using Terraform.
• Collaborate with development teams to improve systems processes.
• Monitor and triage security vulnerabilities.

Skills

Automated build and deployment workflows

Terraform

AWS

Container orchestration

Git branching strategies

Vulnerability scanning

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Harness.io

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Splunk

Job description

Overview

Every day, Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid and merchant services. Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results. We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions. Join our dynamic team.

Combines software development and IT operations practices which shorten the systems delivery life cycle and provide a continuous delivery platform and complements the efficiencies of Agile software development methods. Builds and maintains the tooling and infrastructure used to automate the release, deployment, and upgrade processes. Ensures continuous, high velocity delivery and automated deployment through the use of software provisioning, configuration management, source code management and/or team collaboration applications.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement automated build, test, and deployment workflows using tools like Harness.io and Jenkins.
• Continuously improve pipeline reliability, speed, and maintainability via templating, modularization, and best practices.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code (IaC) pipelines using Terraform.
• Ensure consistent provisioning and configuration of cloud resources (compute, networking, storage, IAM).
• Operate and optimize components in AWS or on prem.
• Monitor cost, performance, and security posture; recommend and implement improvements.
• Work hand-in-hand with application teams to onboard services onto CI/CD pipelines, define branching strategies, and automate release gates.
• Partner with security and compliance teams to bake in policies (e.g., vulnerability scans, secret management) into pipelines.
• Build reusable pipeline templates and shared libraries to accelerate delivery across teams.
• Integrate testing frameworks (unit, integration, security) and observability tools (logging, metrics, tracing) into workflows.
• Diagnose and resolve pipeline failures, infrastructure provisioning errors, or environment drift.
• Monitor and triage security vulnerabilities identified by platforms such as Wiz and Macroscope; partner with engineering and security stakeholders to drive remediation efforts.
• Collaborate with security teams to integrate automated vulnerability detection and reporting into CI/CD pipelines.
• Configure and maintain secure and reliable log forwarding from application and infrastructure layers to observability platforms such as Splunk.
• Help other developers on the team with technical issues and onboard them to the frameworks.
• Partner with development and other project teams to improve the systems process and provide the necessary support with day to day operations.
• Migrate older technology implementations to a modern container/Kubernetes platform.
• Ensure logs meet compliance, audit, and monitoring requirements; help define and enforce logging standards across environments.
• Primary contributions in Development, Testing Frameworks and Rollout.
• Works under the guidance of Lead Software Engineers, Tech Leads and Architects.
• Research trends in the current technology domain, discover new tools and garner the consensus for internal adoption.
• Mentor and train junior and mid-level engineers on the team; assist with technical issues and onboard them to the frameworks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a technical discipline.
• Typically minimum of 6 years of experience in IT with expertise in complex technology solutions.
• Preferred Attributes:
• Familiarity with container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with policy-as-code tools (OPA, policy frameworks). Exposure to security automation (vulnerability scanning, secrets management).
• Understanding of Git branching strategies (GitFlow, trunk-based development).
• SAFe certified.
• Working with remote teams (onshore, nearshore, offshore).
• Experience with managing a large code base that is a mixture of legacy code and modern technology, preferably experience with moving legacy code to the cloud.
• Experience with continuous integration build engines, such as Jenkins.
• Experience with on and off prem infra in a large enterprise context.