Quality Cloud Engineer / DevOps Engineer - AKS

ClearRoute; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering consultancy in Greater London is seeking a Quality Cloud Engineer to build and operate cloud-native platforms for a SaaS-based retail banking solution. The role demands expertise in CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, and DevOps practices. Ideal candidates will have 8-10 years of relevant experience, strong Docker skills, and a passion for delivering high-quality, secure software. The position offers opportunities for collaboration and innovation in a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• 8 to 10 years of hands-on experience on SaaS/IaaS.
• Hands-on experience with DevOps tools like Ansible, Docker, and Git.
• Prior experience with at least one Cloud Service provider.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage scalable CI/CD pipelines.
• Improve monitoring and security of applications.
• Collaborate with teams for automation and long-term needs.

Skills

SaaS/IaaS experience

DevOps techniques

Kubernetes

Docker

Scripting in Python

Education

CKA or CKAD certification

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

About Us:

ClearRoute is an engineering consultancy bridging Quality Engineering, Cloud Platforms and Developer Experience. We work with technology leaders facing complex business challenges.

We take as much pride in our people, culture and work-life balance as we do in making better software. We’re not just making better software. We’re making the making of software better.

Collaborative, entrepreneurial and dedicated to problem solving, we bring the step change our customer need to sustain innovation. Our values challenge us to do the best we can for ClearRoute, our customers and most importantly our team. We want to create a collaborative team to help build ClearRoute. This is an opportunity for you to build the organisation from the ground up, use your voice to drive change and help transform organisations and problem domains.

Job Role

We are seeking a Quality Cloud Engineer with strong hands‑on experience in building and operating scalable, secure, and highly available cloud‑native platforms for a SaaS‑based retail banking solution. The role involves designing and managing CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes‑based infrastructure, automation, monitoring, and security while closely collaborating with engineering teams to support application, infrastructure, and network needs. You will be responsible for improving platform reliability, observability, and security, enabling developers through tooling and standards around containers, service mesh, and infrastructure as code, and ensuring production systems meet high availability and defect SLAs. This role requires deep expertise in cloud platforms, distributed systems, CI/CD, container orchestration, and scripting, along with the ability to communicate technical solutions effectively in a global, collaborative environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Designing and managing highly scalable, reliable and fault tolerant CI/CD Pipeline infrastructure & networking. The initial engagement you join will be working with systems that form the backbone of our customers SaaS based Retail Banking Solution.
• Improving overall Monitoring and security posture of infrastructure/application by implementing protective measures, efficiently in tandem with better ROI and TCO.
• Working along with the Dev Engineering teams to help with Application / Infrastructure / Network automation and long‑term business needs.
• Researching and evaluating parallel products available, define & govern application/ infrastructure baselines.
• Communicating, collaborating and work effectively across distributed teams in a global environment.
• Operating to strengthen teams across their product with their knowledge base.
• Researching and implementing toolsets that help developers use Containers, Kubernetes and Service Mesh.
• Developing tools for developers, operations and release teams to use Kubernetes and Service Mesh with ease.
• Ensuring Platform Security and Monitoring using tools like Prometheus/Grafana etc and implementing Monitoring and Security best practices.
• Having a passion for delivering zero‑defect and highly resilient code and being responsible for ensuring the team's deliverables exceed the prescribed availability and defect SLA.
• Presenting technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms.
• Grooming user stories into detailed development tasks.
• Effectively communicating status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner.

Required Skills & Experience

• At least 8 to 10 years of hands‑on experience on SaaS / IaaS.
• Hands‑on experience with DevOps techniques building continuous integration solutions using Ansible, Bash, Docker, Git, Maven.
• Experience with Load Balancing, Rate Limiting, Traffic Shaping and managing connectivity between applications and networks.
• Must have prior experience with at least one Cloud Service provider – Azure AKS, AWS EKS, GCP GKE, OpenShift, Rancher etc.
• Experience implementing Kubernetes controllers/operators.
• Strong Docker experience.
• Operational experience deploying and managing Kubernetes.
• CKA or CKAD certification.
• Deep knowledge of Linux as a production environment.
• Strong understanding of container technologies. e.g. Docker, Infrastructure As Code such as Terraform, K8s administration at large scale.
• Strong understanding of cluster orchestrators and schedulers (Kubernetes, Mesos etc).
• Excellent Bash, and scripting fundamentals and strong hands‑on with scripting in programming languages such as Spring, Python, Java, Ruby, etc.
• Good understanding of distributed system fundamentals and ability to troubleshoot issues in a larger distributed application infrastructure.
• Excellent understanding of interactive application development paradigm, memory management, performance/resource optimisations, database interactions, network programming, concurrency and multithreading, fault tolerance, monitoring, security and operability of systems.

Bonus Points

• AZ400 experience.

Equal Opportunity Statement

At ClearRoute, we believe diverse perspectives lead to better outcomes, and inclusion creates the conditions for everyone to thrive. We are proud to have built a family‑friendly working environment and have many employees who have caring responsibilities alongside work. We welcome applications from people who require flexibility and will be happy to discuss needs on an individual basis.

We are committed to fostering a culture where all team members feel respected, supported, and empowered to do their best work. We celebrate individuality and our differences and understand that some differences may mean that you require changes made to the interview process. We are happy to cater to your needs to make the interview accessible, if this is something you require please let us know by emailing us at [e-mail].