Senior DevOps Engineer | Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD, Azure | Central Enablement Team for a Tier-1 Bank (Global Consultancy)
- 12-month contract (extensions likely / potential to go permanent)
- £550–£700 per day (depending on experience)
- London – 2 days per week on-site
- Immediate / ASAP start
The Role
Join a prestigious, global consultancy, with its foundations firmly rooted in the UK, as part of a central enablement team supporting one of the world’s leading Tier-1 banks. You’ll operate as both engineer and consultant: helping multiple development squads modernise their CI/CD delivery through best-in-class tooling and DevOps practices.
This isn’t a ticket-driven operations role, it’s hands-on, architecture-minded enablement. You’ll coach teams, design scalable pipelines, and lead migrations from legacy systems into streamlined, automated workflows that power financial platforms used by millions.
What They’re Looking For (Non-Negotiables)
- Proven software engineering background: you’ve been a developer before moving into DevOps, and understand build quality, testing, and code pipelines from the inside out.
- Kubernetes platform enablement and troubleshooting at scale.
- GitLab CI/CD (plus Jenkins/TeamCity) pipeline design, templating, and optimisation.
- Docker image build and registry management.
- CI/CD automation experience across multiple teams/products.
- Azure and/or AWS familiarity (majority Azure).
- Consultancy-grade communication.
What You’ll Work With
- Kubernetes enablement, deployment support, and incident troubleshooting.
- GitLab CI/CD, Docker, and migration pathways from TeamCity/Jenkins.
- Azure (primarily) and AWS in a mixed-cloud environment.
- Terraform (IaC), observability tooling, security scanning, and secrets management.
Nice to Haves
- Prior consultancy or customer-facing engineering background.
- Deep Terraform fluency and experience embedding SAST/DAST gates into CI/CD workflows.
- Strong testing mindset and understanding of quality gates, unit coverage, and continuous testing practices.
Why Join / Projects
Be part of a globally recognised consultancy driving a major digital transformation for a leading UK bank. Working in the central enablement team, you’ll help multiple delivery squads achieve faster, safer, and more automated releases.
You’ll have real technical influence, shaping DevOps standards across a complex enterprise and delivering visible impact in one of the UK’s most high-profile engineering modernisation programmes.
Senior DevOps Engineer | Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD, Azure | Central Enablement Team for a Tier-1 Bank (Global Consultancy)
