Devops SME

Experience: 15 Yrs

Location: London

Must‑-Have Technical Expertise

Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Configuration Management & Automation

• Strong hands‑-on experience with Terraform, Ansible, and Python for IaC, configuration management, and workflow automation.
• Ability to architect reusable modules, enforce policies, and drive standardization across environments.

Agile Delivery & Planning

• Experience in Sprint planning, backlog grooming, and translating requirements into actionable Epics/Stories using Atlassian Jira.

Collaboration & Knowledge Management

• Strong documentation and collaboration skills using Confluence to create architecture diagrams, operational playbooks, and runbooks.

Change & Release Management

• Familiarity with enterprise change workflows through ServiceNow (SNOW), ensuring compliance, traceability, and risk mitigation.

CI/CD Tooling

• Expertise with end‑-to‑-end pipeline development using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Artifactory, and related tools.
• Ability to design scalable, secure, and self‑-service CI/CD frameworks.

Source Code Management & Quality Gates

• Strong experience with Bitbucket, GitHub Enterprise, branching strategies, and repository governance.
• Proficiency with code scanning and quality tools like SonarQube.

Security & Compliance Automation

• Hands‑-on exposure to security tools such as Fortify, Trivy, Inspec, and integration of DevSecOps controls into CI/CD workflows.

Observability & Monitoring

• Experience with observability platforms including AppDynamics, Grafana, Prometheus, or similar stacks.
• Ability to define SLOs/SLIs, alerts, and dashboards.

Containerization & Orchestration

• Proficient with Docker and Kubernetes, including deployment patterns, scaling strategies, helm charts, and cluster troubleshooting.

Cloud & Platform Expertise

• Strong knowledge of AWS, Azure, and On‑-Premises infrastructure.
• Ability to design hybrid-cloud architectures, automate provisioning, and implement cost‑-optimized and secure solutions.

Preferred Skills & Responsibilities

• Lead solution architecture discussions and formalize DevOps strategy for enterprise-scale systems.
• Mentor junior engineers and influence engineering best practices across teams.
• Drive the adoption of DevOps, automation-first culture, and reliability engineering patterns.
• Collaborate closely with development, security, and platform teams to deliver resilient and scalable systems.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend tools/techniques that improve productivity and operational excellence.