DevOps Engineer

Client: Leading UK Bank

Contract Type: 6-month contract – Inside IR35

Location: UK (Hybrid – London / Regional offices)

Start: ASAP

Role Overview Join the Data Platform DevOps team to build and run highly reliable CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure for the bank’s modern data estate (AWS + Airflow + Databricks).

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation and AWS services
• Manage and scale Apache Airflow (MWAA) environments
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Git + Jenkins/GitHub Actions)
• Build serverless components with Lambda and other AWS services
• Manage Linux environments and write automation scripts in Bash
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting and cost optimisation
• Support on-call rotation and incident resolution

Essential Skills & Experience

• 5+ years as a DevOps/Platform Engineer
• Strong AWS experience + CloudFormation
• Production experience with Apache Airflow (MWAA)
• Lambda, Linux + Bash scripting
• CI/CD expertise (Git, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
• IaC and GitOps practices

Nice to Have

• Terraform
• Databricks or Spark platform experience
• Banking/regulatory environment