Job Description

DevOps Engineer

Barclays | 6-Month Contract | Inside IR35

📍 Location: Glasgow (preferred) | Manchester or Northampton also considered

🏢 Working Pattern: Hybrid - 2 days per week in the office

📅 Contract Length: 6 Months

💷 Rate: Up to £640 per day (Inside IR35 via Umbrella)

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