Senior DevOps Engineer - Cloud & CI/CD Automation

Ernst & Young Advisory Services Sdn Bhd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

EY is seeking a Senior Consultant for Technology Consulting in London to drive secure, automated software delivery. You will set up projects, automate pipelines, and support cloud environments across dev, test, and prod while collaborating with cross‑functional teams to improve speed, resilience and control.

The role emphasizes hands‑on engineering, cloud proficiency, and a proactive approach to automate and secure the software delivery lifecycle within a regulated financial services context.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT or related discipline.
• Experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, platform engineering or release automation.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure and Azure DevOps; Azure certifications advantageous.
• Experience onboarding projects from scratch, including repository setup, environments, pipelines, cloud infrastructure, monitoring and release governance.

Responsibilities

• Set up and configure new projects in Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitLab or comparable DevOps platforms, including repositories, branching models, permissions and access controls.
• Design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, code quality, security scanning, release approvals and deployment across development, test, staging and production environments.
• Create and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Bicep or ARM templates, supporting repeatable provisioning of cloud infrastructure and platform components.
• Build and support containerised workloads using Docker and Kubernetes, including deployments, manifests, Helm charts, configuration, secrets and environment‑specific release workflows.
• Configure cloud environments on Microsoft Azure, with awareness of networking, identity, security, monitoring, storage and platform services relevant to application delivery.
• Integrate automated testing, code quality gates, vulnerability scanning and compliance controls into pipelines, working with development, QA and security teams.
• Troubleshoot deployment failures, pipeline issues, Kubernetes errors, environment defects and production support incidents, documenting root cause and preventive actions.
• Maintain deployment documentation, operating procedures, runbooks, environment diagrams and handover notes for client and EY delivery teams.
• Work in Agile squads with product owners, developers, architects, QA, security, SRE and operations teams to support reliable end‑to‑end software delivery.
• Contribute to reusable DevOps templates, platform patterns, engineering standards and automation accelerators across EY FSO Digital Engineering.

Skills

Hands-on engineering

Problem solving

Ownership mindset

Attention to detail

Collaboration

Stakeholder communication

Continuous improvement

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT or related discipline

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub

GitLab

Terraform

Bicep/ARM

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure

Helm

Job description

EY is seeking a Senior Consultant for Technology Consulting in London to drive secure, automated software delivery. You will set up projects, automate pipelines, and support cloud environments across dev, test, and prod while collaborating with cross‑functional teams to improve speed, resilience and control.

The role emphasizes hands‑on engineering, cloud proficiency, and a proactive approach to automate and secure the software delivery lifecycle within a regulated financial services context.