Application Upgrade & Automation Engineer

Application Upgrade & Automation Engineer - SC Cleared

Contract: Inside IR35

Location: London (Hybrid)

Security Clearance: SC Clearance preferred or ability to obtain

We are seeking an experienced SC Cleared Application Upgrade & Automation Engineer to join a leading Financial Systems & Solutions team.

You will play a key part in delivering application upgrades, platform refreshes and automation initiatives across a complex enterprise estate. You will work closely with application, infrastructure and engineering teams to ensure business-critical systems remain secure, supported and aligned to future technology roadmaps.

This is an excellent opportunity for an engineer with strong Windows and Linux administration experience, coupled with a passion for automation, DevOps practices and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate and deliver application upgrades, migrations and platform refresh activities.
• Ensure applications remain compliant with vendor support and security requirements.
• Administer and support enterprise applications hosted across Windows and Linux environments.
• Troubleshoot application, middleware and infrastructure-related issues.
• Produce and maintain operational documentation, support procedures and runbooks.
• Identify opportunities to automate manual operational processes and improve efficiencies.
• Develop automation solutions using PowerShell, Bash, Python, Ansible or similar technologies.
• Design, build and maintain CI/CD deployment pipelines.
• Promote Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and DevOps best practices across engineering teams.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong experience supporting and administering enterprise applications across both Windows and Linux platforms.
• Proven experience delivering application upgrades, migrations and platform refresh programmes in production environments.
• Hands-on scripting and automation experience using PowerShell, Bash, Python or similar technologies.
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible.
• Strong understanding of application servers, middleware technologies and databases.
• Excellent troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.
• Experience working within large-scale enterprise or regulated environments.

Desirable Experience

• Experience integrating Artifactory, Xray and SonarQube into CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of application release management and repository governance.
• Experience designing and maintaining GitHub Actions pipelines.
• Exposure to monitoring and observability platforms.
• Experience working within financial services, government, defence or other highly regulated sectors.

If you have a strong background in enterprise application support, automation, platform upgrades and DevOps tooling, we'd love to hear from you.