Details:
- Salary: £600 - 640 - Day
- Job Type: Contract
- Job Status: Full-Time
- Salary Per: Day
- Location: Glasgow
- Date: 1 day ago
Description:
DevOps Engineer
Barclays | 6-Month Contract | Inside IR35
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The Opportunity
Barclays is looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join a high-performing technology team supporting the delivery of critical applications and infrastructure across the bank. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a large-scale enterprise environment, helping to drive automation, improve CI/CD processes, and support cloud-native engineering practices.
You'll work closely with development, infrastructure, and security teams to build and maintain robust, scalable, and secure platforms that enable faster and more reliable software delivery.
Key Responsibilities
Design, implement, and support CI/CD pipelines
Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management
Support cloud-based and on-premise environments
Drive DevOps best practices across development teams
Monitor and maintain platform performance, availability, and security
Troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure and deployment issues
Collaborate with software engineers, architects, and stakeholders to improve delivery processes
Contribute to infrastructure-as-code and automation initiatives
Required Skills & Experience
Strong commercial experience within a DevOps Engineering role
Expertise with CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps or similar
Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform
Strong scripting skills using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar
Experience with containerisation technologies including Docker and Kubernetes/OpenShift
Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP
Strong understanding of Linux and distributed systems
Experience with monitoring and logging tools
Familiarity with security and compliance best practices within enterprise environments
Desirable
Previous experience within Financial Services or a highly regulated environment
Exposure to SRE principles and observability tooling
Experience supporting large-scale, mission-critical applications