DevOps Engineer (12 month FTC)

OVERALL SUMMARY

Close Brothers Group, a FTSE 250 company, is leading UK merchant banking group consisting of a diversified set of specialist financial services providing lending, deposit taking, wealth management services and securities trading.

As part of a wider technology strategic simplification programme, we are looking for a GitLab DevOps engineer to work closely with our Lead Dev Ops Engineer in the rationalisation and standardisation of our Dev Ops tooling onto a common suite of strategic technologies, primarily GitLab (SaaS) and JFrog Artifactory (SaaS).

You will be responsible for supporting the assessment of existing build and deployment pipelines across Jenkins, Octopus, TeamCity. Working with key stakeholders across the DevOps community, you will establish a migration approach and plan, and lead the migration execution.

This is a hands-on role, working in an exciting technology transformation project with the opportunity to transform a largely legacy estate and establish the “gold standard” for Dev Ops within the Bank.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Implement secure automation solutions (CI/CD pipelines) across development, test, and production environments covering Hybrid (Cloud/On-Premises) deployment models in alignment with the design and best practice defined by the Lead Dev Ops Engineer.
Ensure Governance is built into the automation pipelines – including traceability of change and control of environments.
Inspect, adapt and improve constantly to increase the Quality & Velocity of deliveries.
Development and support of the DevOps toolchain.
Development and maintenance of automated solution covering operational administration, system/data backup, disaster recovery, and security/performance monitoring.
Troubleshooting deployment issues and coordinating with the development and operations teams to streamline/automate.

WE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF:

Must have: GitLab experience for CI/CD pipelines.
Minimum 2 years’ experience as a DevOps Engineer.

Ideally with 1-year using GitLab pipelines with GitLab Ultimate or Premium edition.

Hands-on experience in Software Build Automation; the creation of CI/CD pipelines; Configuration Management; and Change & Release Management in an Agile/SCRUM development environment.
DevOps tooling: GIT, GitLab (SaaS), Jenkins, Artifactory (SaaS), TeamCity & Octopus Deploy.
In-depth understanding of GIT branching/merging strategies.
Atlassian JIRA/Confluence.
Proficiency in scripting languages including Groovy, Bash, Python, Ruby and JavaScript.
Knowledge of secure coding and testing concepts across a variety of tools (static, dynamic, and both automated and manual) and vulnerability management.
Experience of Container solutions such as Docker/ Kubernetes.
Ability to achieve goals and milestones while valuing and maintaining a strong attention to detail.
Excellent judgment, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills
Ability to work with mixed groups of stakeholders in a complex, multi-vendor environment.
Self-motivated with good time management and organizational skills.
‘You’re passionate about technology and excited about working with us!’

IT IS NOT ESSENTIAL BUT IT WOULD BE GREAT IF YOU:

Knowledge/experience of Salesforce and/or Snowflake platforms (not essential)