Senior DevOps Engineer - FDM Group : Job Details

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to work for our client within the finance sector. This is initially a 12-month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role based in Leeds.

Our client is seeking a talented Senior DevOps Engineer to join their Segments and Propositions Platform, where you'll play a key role in shaping the future of our digital services. This is a chance to be part of the ground-breaking innovation we're delivering to millions of customers.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer within their platform, you’ll collaborate across engineering, operations and product teams to develop, support and enhance our tools and processes for Continuous Integration, automated testing, and release management. You’ll contribute directly to improving agility, system reliability, and development quality across their platforms.

DevOps at our client’s organisation is not just a function, but a mindset. You’ll play a key part in driving this cultural shift, embedding DevOps principles and agile ways of working across the platform. You'll have the freedom to explore, suggest and implement best practices that enable scale and continuous improvement.

You'll bring a contextual understanding of DevOps practices—explaining not just how to use the tools, but why they matter, what business value they deliver, and how they can evolve to support a changing technology landscape.

Responsibilities

• Build and support robust Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipelines
• Lead the evolution of our DevOps tooling and practices across teams
• Provide operational support for applications in cloud environments, including incident resolution, performance tuning, and optimisation
• Promote agile and DevOps principles throughout the engineering community
• Mentor and support the development of more junior engineers
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions in an agile environment
• Continuously look for opportunities to automate, improve, and innovate

Requirements

• Minimum of 7 years’ experience in managing applications in cloud environments (GCP, Azure, or private cloud platforms like OCP)
• Strong hands-on knowledge of containerisation and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Practical experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation
• Familiarity with service mesh technologies
• Extensive experience in building CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, Nexus, and SonarQube
• Knowledge of build tools such as Maven and npm
• Proficient in working with source control systems, especially Git
• Comfortable with at least one modern programming language, ideally Java or JavaScript; experience in Python, Golang or Rust is also beneficial
• Experience across the full software development lifecycle
• Previous mentoring or leadership experience in a technical team

Why join us

• Career coaching, mentoring and access to upskilling throughout your entire FDM career
• Assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad
• Opportunity to re-skill and up-skill into new areas, develop non-linear career paths and build a skillset within your field
• Annual leave, work-place pension and BAYE share scheme

About FDM

We are a business and technology consultancy and one of the UK's leading employers, recruiting the brightest talent to become the innovators of tomorrow. We have centres across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 3,500 Consultants. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer and is listed on the FTSE4Good Index.

Diversity and Inclusion

FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.