DevOps Engineer (CI/CD) - BELFAST

Synechron is looking for an experienced DevOps/SRE Engineer to drive automation, improve infrastructure reliability, and ensure smooth and efficient software delivery across a global financial organisation. The ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise, and a passion for continuous improvement in CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, system monitoring, and deployment processes.

Role:

• Management of multi-test environments supporting large-scale Big Data applications, web services, and downstream integrations
• Enhance and develop end-to-end CI/CD pipeline implementation and optimisation using tools like Jenkins, Harness, Tekton, GitHub, and BitBucket
• Drive platform governance, automation, and performance optimisation across containerised environments, leveraging OpenShift and Kubernetes
• Collaborate with development teams to support Java, Spark, and Python-based applications, ensuring smooth integration into CI/CD workflows
• Integrate and manage secrets and credential handling through Vault, ensuring adherence to secure DevOps practices
• Implement and monitor code quality and security scanning tools such as SonarQube, BlackDuck, and enforce development standards across the pipeline
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and post-mortems to improve system reliability and uptime
• Define and track key performance metrics around deployment health, system uptime, build stability, and pipeline efficiency
• Work closely with product engineering, architecture, infrastructure, and security teams to align DevOps goals
• Research, recommend, and implement emerging tools and technologies to continuously modernise the DevOps/SRE ecosystem

Experience:

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or infrastructure engineering role
• Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Harness, GitHub, BitBucket, RLM, Terraform, Ansible, and Tekton
• Proficient in Java, Python, and Linux shell scripting for automation and tooling
• Solid understanding of Spark and distributed data processing environments, Cloudera familiarity a plus
• Experience with containerisation and orchestration using OpenShift, ECS, and Docker
• Experience with Ansible or similar tools for configuration management and automation
• Strong knowledge of code quality and security scanning tools like SonarQube and BlackDuck
• Deep understanding of infrastructure reliability, scalability, and observability best practices
• Experience implementing monitoring, alerting, and logging tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Datadog)

Permanent position - Swift onboarding - Strong market rates - Excellent benefits - Hybrid working (x3 days in office)

Diversity Statement

Synechron are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We offer flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programmes to support our global workforce. Empowerment and collaboration are at the core of how we operate.

All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.