DevOps Engineer- Manchester

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking DevOps Engineers to work for our client in the Banking sector. This is a 12 month fixed-term contract opportunity based in Manchester.

Our client is building and improving the platforms behind its engineering teams. It is looking for DevOps Engineers to deliver reliable, automated and observable infrastructure. The role will focus on Kubernetes/OpenShift, infrastructure as code, continuous delivery and the internal developer platform. It will suit engineers who enjoy platform engineering and making developers more productive through good tooling and automation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build, configure and maintain Kubernetes/OpenShift clusters and workloads.
• Provision and manage infrastructure as code using Terraform, with consistent and repeatable environments.
• Design, build and improve continuous delivery pipelines so releases are fast, safe and reliable.
• Develop and extend the internal developer platform (IDP), including Backstage, to give engineering teams self-service capabilities.
• Implement and improve observability across metrics, telemetry, logging and alerting.
• Define and track SLOs, and use the insight to improve platform reliability and performance.
• Automate runbooks and operational tasks to reduce manual effort and speed up incident response.
• Apply platform and control engineering practices so the platform stays secure, governed and compliant.