Senior DevOps Engineer

U.S. Bank; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is looking for a DevOps specialist who will maintain and support Opayo Payments Applications in a fast-paced, high-availability environment. Candidates should have extensive experience with AWS, scripting, and monitoring tools. This position offers a hybrid work schedule with in-office expectations of three or more days a week. Key responsibilities include automating solutions and collaborating with development teams to ensure product compliance.

Benefits

Diverse working environment

Health and financial security benefits

Career development resources

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in AWS.
• Experience in scripting languages.
• Experience with monitoring tools like SumoLogic and New Relic.
• Experience with automation tools such as Puppet, Ansible, and Terraform.
• Experience in a DevOps support model.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and support Opayo Payments Applications.
• Work with development teams to design new products.
• Monitor live environment for failures.
• Deploy software releases with Development & Test Teams.
• Support production systems as needed.
• Reduce manual tasks with automation solutions.

Skills

AWS

Scripting languages

Monitoring tools

Automation tools

DevOps support model

High available production environment

Fast-paced team communication

Job description

At U.S. Bank were on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed in the right ways all more confidently and more oftenthats what we call the courage to thrive. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive. Try new things learn new skills and discover what you excel atall from Day One.

Job Description

The Dev Ops Team is about ensuring all the Opayo Web Applications are delivered through Development Test and Productions environments in an automated Continuous Delivery manner. Opayo is a high transactional environment and applications are available 24 hours a day 365 days a year. The team ensures that the Opayo core applications are maintained monitored and issues are responded to and resolved in line with departmental SLAs.

Key accountabilities and decision ownership

• Maintaining and supporting Opayo Payments Applications using monitoring tools to detect failures and investigating / resolving issues and writing custom monitoring scripts
• Working with the development teams to help design new products and architecting new solutions
• Monitor Live environment to detect failures and investigate / resolve issues
• Work closely with the Development & Test Teams to deploy software releases
• Support production systems as required inside and outside of standard working hours.
• Reducing the overhead of BAU and manual tasks and replacing them with automated solutions
• Actively contributing to the process of continual improvement with regard to self team and the systems you support
• Actively participating in departmental projects as per the technology roadmap
• Working with 3rd parties and partners to ensure product compliance and stability

Skills know-how and experience

Must have

• Extensive experience of AWS
• Extensive experience of scripting languages
• Extensive experience of monitoring tools (SumoLogic New Relic)
• Extensive experience of automation tools (Puppet Ansible Terraform)
• Extensive experience of working in a DevOps support model
• Experience of working in a highly available high transaction production environment
• Demonstrable experience communicating in a fast-paced results-oriented team-based environment

Preferred

• Proven experience of payment gateways

Key performance indicators

• System uptime and downtime is in accordance with Operational SLAs
• Ensure all releases follow defined processes and procedures
• Participation in Oncall rota (additional on-call allowance)
• Objectives achieved through scripts maintained in source control

Key stakeholders

• Operations Database Infrastructure and Network Teams
• Agile scrum Teams.
• Security Team.

Location

The role offers a hybrid / flexible schedule which means theres an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days.

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

If theres anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants .

Benefits

We offer an exciting fast-paced and diverse working environment with employees of many different nationalities. We provide benefits to help you protect your health and financial security; and give you peace of mind. We also invest in your career growth with development resources that give you the opportunity to stretch and shine.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.

Required Experience

Senior IC

Key Skills

• APIs
• C / C++
• Computer Graphics
• Go
• React
• Redux
• Node.js
• AWS
• Library Services
• Assembly
• GraphQL
• High Voltage

Employment Type

Full-Time

Experience

years

Vacancy

1