Security-Focused DevOps Engineer (Kubernetes & CI/CD)

Glocomms; City Of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Glocomms is partnering with a leading investment manager in London to find a DevOps Engineer to join their Security Engineering team. This role offers the opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment, focusing on building and managing secure, reliable systems critical for trading activities.

The ideal candidate will handle CI/CD pipelines, automation, and collaborative security enhancements in a technology-driven setting. Strong coding skills and experience with Kubernetes or cloud platforms are essential.

Qualifications

• Strong coding or scripting skills and a passion for automation.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and modern deployment practices.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Solid experience working with Kubernetes and containerized environments.
• Good understanding of Linux systems and networking fundamentals.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), ideally in complex or hybrid environments.
• Understanding of security fundamentals (secrets management, access control, vulnerability management).
• A proactive, problem-solving mindset with the ability to work independently.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across engineering and security teams.

Responsibilities

• Designing and enhancing CI/CD pipelines or supporting teams in adopting GitOps workflows.
• Building internal tools and automation to support platform and data-driven initiatives.
• Collaborating with security engineers to embed controls into development pipelines.
• Supporting and improving security tooling, including secrets management platforms.
• Improving observability with better monitoring, logging, and alerting across infrastructure and security systems.
• Automating operational and security processes to reduce manual effort and risk.
• Managing and securing containerized environments, ensuring strong runtime protections.
• Contributing to incident response and troubleshooting production or deployment issues.
• Continuously improving system reliability, scalability, and security posture.

Skills

Coding or scripting skills

Automation passion

CI/CD pipelines experience

Infrastructure as code

Kubernetes proficiency

Linux systems knowledge

Cloud platforms experience

Security fundamentals understanding

Communication skills

Problem-solving mindset

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Vault

Job description

Glocomms is partnering with a leading investment manager in London to find a DevOps Engineer to join their Security Engineering team. This role offers the opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment, focusing on building and managing secure, reliable systems critical for trading activities.

The ideal candidate will handle CI/CD pipelines, automation, and collaborative security enhancements in a technology-driven setting. Strong coding skills and experience with Kubernetes or cloud platforms are essential.