DevOps Engineer | Azure Automation & Platform Engineering - Inside IR35 Contract

A leading financial markets firm is looking for a DevOps Engineer to help enhance and automate critical infrastructure and application delivery platforms.

This role offers the opportunity to work across cloud, CI/CD, configuration management and monitoring technologies in a highly technical environment where reliability, scalability and automation are key.

What You'll Bring

• Strong Scripting skills using Python, Bash and/or Groovy
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps pipelines
• Infrastructure automation and configuration management using Ansible
• Experience with Git, Artifactory, Nexus and modern DevOps tooling
• Monitoring and observability expertise with tools such as Geneos and the ELK Stack
• Knowledge of enterprise infrastructure including networking, Servers, load balancers and storage
• Experience within banking, financial services or capital markets

Desirable Experience

• Infrastructure as Code
• Azure and/or AWS
• Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift or Podman
• Release and Change Management processes
• Oracle database administration
• Unix/Linux administration
• Production support or low-latency trading environments

The Individual

You'll be a proactive engineer who enjoys solving complex technical problems, improving operational efficiency and delivering robust long-term solutions. Strong communication skills and the ability to work across multiple technology teams are essential.