• Client: Global banking sector
• PAYE - inside IR35
• 12 months' contract
• Location: London, UK
• Hybrid working (50% on site)
• At least 12 years experience needed!

Key Roles & Responsibilities

You will lead a global team of engineers to measure and improve performance and efficiency, driving deliverables through engineering excellence and effective relationship building with supporting technical service teams, up/downstream dependencies, stakeholders and vendors.

You will be expected to;

• Lead a global team of engineers.
• Take responsibility for the building and maintenance of CICD pipelines and infrastructure serving several business-critical applications.
• Administer OpenShift and Kubernetes environments.
• Design resilient, scalable application infrastructure solutions for the following components: Elastic stack, Confluent Kafka, Datastax Cassandra.
• Provide operational support to developers, production services and management teams where necessary.
• Build and maintain relationships with stakeholders, vendors, and technical service teams.
• Adhere to, maintain, and improve the adoption of rigorous compliance measures in all aspects of your role.
• Automate everything through documented reusable code.
• Have experience of supporting large-scale data processing systems written in Java.
• Plan and execute work using Agile methodologies; JIRA planning and task prioritization, Confluence documentation and Bitbucket/GHE for all the wonderful code you'll be building.

Who we're looking for:

• OpenShift/Kubernetes and Docker administration.
• You will have built and managed clusters and understand all aspects of both platform and application layer configuration and troubleshooting.
• A development background preferred.
• A previous DevOps, Sys Admin, SRE or Test Automation role.
• Scripting! We use Ansible, Puppet, Bash, Python, Groovy and Golang.
• CI/CD pipeline development will be your daily bread and butter, if it can be automated, your instinctive DevOps nature will compel you to design one.
• Proven experience with Kafka, Cassandra & Elasticsearch will be a significant advantage, as developers love to break these things.
• Experience working within the finance industry is desirable.