Job Title: DevOps Engineer (Payments Platform) – IKP / GCP / Jenkins / Linux / Oracle / Distributed Databases

Location: Sheffield, UK (Hybrid-3 days weekly from office)

We at Coforge are looking for Devops Engineer in Sheffield, UK.

Role purpose

Design, build, and run secure, resilient, and automated CI/CD and platform capabilities for a high-throughput payments environment. You’ll enable rapid, safe change through Infrastructure as Code, pipeline engineering, observability, and operational excellence across Linux-based workloads on GCP and IKP, integrating with Oracle and distributed database technologies.

Key responsibilities

Platform & DevOps engineering

• Engineer and operate DevOps tooling and platform services across IKP and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to support mission-critical payments workloads.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins (Pipeline-as-Code), including reusable shared libraries, quality gates, and automated release orchestration.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management to standardise environments, reduce drift, and improve auditability.
• Drive automation-first practices for provisioning, deployment, patching, and operational tasks (self-service where possible).

Payments reliability, resilience & performance

• Deliver high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) designs aligned to payments RTO/RPO expectations.
• Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, and resilience testing (e.g., failover, chaos-style testing where appropriate).
• Support 24x7 production operations through robust runbooks, incident response, and continuous improvement (post-incident reviews, problem management).

Cloud, Linux & runtime operations

• Administer and troubleshoot Linux systems (process, memory, storage, networking, systemd, kernel parameters) in production-grade environments.
• Manage secure connectivity, routing, and firewalling across hybrid/cloud networks (VPC design, subnets, DNS, load balancing concepts).
• Harden platforms using baseline controls, patching strategies, and vulnerability remediation aligned to enterprise security requirements.

Database & data platform enablement

• Support DevOps enablement for Oracle (deployment automation, schema migration tooling, backup/restore automation, performance monitoring).
• Work with distributed databases (e.g., multi-node clusters, replication, sharding/partitioning concepts) to ensure reliability, scalability, and operational readiness.
• Implement database CI/CD patterns (versioned migrations, rollback strategies, environment promotion, data masking where required).

Observability & operational excellence

• Implement end-to-end observability: metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting, and SLO/SLI-based monitoring.
• Improve MTTR through actionable alerting, correlation, and automation (auto-remediation where appropriate).
• Champion DevSecOps: integrate security scanning and policy checks into pipelines (SAST/DAST, dependency scanning, container/image scanning, secrets detection).

Collaboration & governance

• Partner with engineering, security, architecture, and operations teams to deliver compliant, auditable change in a regulated payments context.
• Contribute to technical standards, reference architectures, and engineering playbooks.
• Mentor engineers on CI/CD, IaC, reliability patterns, and operational readiness.

Required skills & experience

• Strong hands-on DevOps/SRE experience in high-availability, low-latency environments (payments/financial services experience preferred).
• Proven expertise building Jenkins pipelines (declarative/scripted), shared libraries, pipeline security, and release automation.
• Solid experience with GCP services and cloud-native operations (IAM, networking, compute, storage, logging/monitoring).
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting in production.
• Experience supporting Oracle in enterprise environments (automation, monitoring, backup/restore, performance tuning exposure).
• Working knowledge of distributed database concepts (replication, consistency, failover, scaling, operational tooling).
• Strong scripting/automation skills (e.g., Bash, Python) and API-driven integration.
• Experience implementing IaC and environment standardisation (e.g., Terraform/Ansible-style approaches—tooling can be specified to match your stack).
• Understanding of SDLC, change management, and controls in regulated environments.

Desirable (nice to have)

• Kubernetes/container platform experience (build, deploy, operate; policy and runtime security).
• Experience with secrets management and key management (KMS/HSM concepts).
• Experience with service mesh, API gateways, and zero-trust patterns.
• Familiarity with ITIL practices (incident/problem/change) and SRE practices (error budgets, SLOs).