Role Summary
We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to support a substantial migration and platform modernisation backlog planned across coming quarters. The successful candidate will play a key role in transforming and standardising CI/CD tooling, cloud infrastructure, and engineering practices across the Platform estate.
The role requires strong hands‑on expertise in GCP, Jenkins, Harness, Maven, Git/GitHub, and CI/CD automation, with a proven track record of delivering migration and platform engineering initiatives in enterprise environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and support migration activities across DevOps toolchain & cloud platforms.
- Migrate existing Jenkins pipelines to Harness ensuring minimal disruption to delivery teams.
- Support migration of repositories from GitHub.com to GitHub EU (GitHubs Enterprise Cloud services with data residency options in the European Union and EFTA countries).
- Contribute to GCP adoption and cloud modernisation activities.
- Migrate, standardise build & deployment pipelines onto engineering platform.
- Automate build, test, deployment, and release processes using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD best practices.
- Work closely with Engineering, Platform, Security, and Architecture teams to ensure compliance with enterprise standards.
- Resolve technical debt and actively manage the migration backlog.
- Improve platform reliability, deployment velocity, and operational efficiency.
- Produce technical documentation, runbooks, and knowledge-sharing materials.
Required Skills & Experience
Essential
- 5–8 years' experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering.
- Strong experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Strong hands‑on experience with Jenkins pipeline development & administration.
- Experience implementing and supporting Harness CI/CD.
- Strong knowledge of Git/GitHub repository management & branching strategies.
- Experience with Maven build automation and application deployment, management, and versioning using reusable Helm charts.
- Proven experience delivering large-scale migration or transformation initiatives.
- Experience designing and supporting CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong scripting and automation skills (Shell, Python, Groovy, or similar).
- Experience working within Agile delivery environments.
Desirable
- Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform preferred).
- Kubernetes and containerisation experience.
- Experience with observability and monitoring tooling.
- Financial services or regulated-industry experience.
- Experience working with enterprise engineering platforms and shared services.
Key Deliverables
The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to:
- Jenkins Harness migration programme.
- GitHub.com GitHub EU migration.
- GCP platform adoption activities.
- Migration of build pipelines to the engineering platform.
- CI/CD standardisation and automation improvements.Reduction of platform technical debt and legacy tooling dependencies.
Candidate Profile
- Self-starter with a strong ownership mindset.
- Comfortable working across multiple engineering teams and stakeholders.
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting capability.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Delivery focused with the ability to manage a migration backlog and execute against agreed milestones.