DevOps Consultant

What You Will Work On These are the main challenges you will contribute to - you will grow into the full scope over time with support from the team: • Observability. Improve observability across the estate - building dashboards, alerts, and traces so teams can understand system behaviour without escalating to the platform team. • Toil reduction. Reduce toil - identify repetitive manual operations work and progressively automate it, freeing the team for higher-value engineering. • Delivery pipelines. Support and improve CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, helping engineering communities ship faster and more safely. • Automation. Contribute to platform automation using Ansible and scripting - provisioning, configuration management, and self-service capabilities. • COTS operations. Operate and improve reliability of COTS products (TIBCO, Oracle) within platform standards. • Incident response. Participate in incident response - contributing to post-mortems and follow-up action items, building your reliability engineering craft. What We Are Looking For Core skills - these matter most We expect hands-on experience with most of these. You do not need all of them to be considered. • Platform or infrastructure engineering background - you have built or operated platforms, not just consumed them. • Comfortable with containers: Docker and/or OpenShift (or Kubernetes). Able to read, write, and troubleshoot workload configurations independently. • Some observability experience - Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK. Ideally you have written alert rules or built dashboards, not just read them. • Automation mindset with hands-on scripting ability - Python, Bash, or equivalent. Ansible experience is a strong plus. • Understanding of CI/CD concepts and at least one pipeline tool (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar). • Exposure to Linux system administration and VM-based workloads. • Able to read and reason about Java or JVM-based applications - you do not need to be a Java developer, but you should be comfortable in that world. Helpful extras - good to have These will make you effective faster but are not barriers to entry. • Experience with TIBCO or similar integration middleware in an operations context. • Oracle or Cassandra database operations - monitoring, backup/restore, basic query tuning. • Spring Batch - understanding of batch job patterns and failure modes. • SRE concepts - SLOs, error budgets, toil measurement. Even theoretical familiarity is valued. • Experience working in financial services or regulated environments. • Familiarity with AI-assisted development tooling (GitHub Copilot or similar).