DevOps Engineer

Job Title: DevOps Engineer
Location: Sheffield, Birmingham or Edinburgh (Either location - 3 x days per week on site)
Salary/Rate: Up to £571 per day
Start Date: April 2026
Job Type: 8-month contract (Inside IR35)

Company Introduction
Own and evolve our tier 1 banking clients Jenkins Shared Library, powering multi-language builds (Java/Maven, Node/NPM, Python, Helm, Terraform, containers). Deliver fast, secure, provenance-rich pipelines (SLSA, SBOM, digests) and strengthen supply chain integrity across teams.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives

• Design and maintain Groovy pipeline steps (build, test, package, scan, deploy).
• Extend Python tooling for SLSA provenance, SBOM generation, hash/digest accuracy, and security scan aggregation (SonarQube, Sonatype IQ, SAST/Container).
• Optimize performance (parallel builds, caching, scope-reduced BOMs, dependency prefetch).
• Ensure artifact integrity (correct SHA1/SHA256 mapping, reproducible inputs, evidence modeling).
• Refactor legacy scripts (remove global state, consolidate hashing, standardize templates).
• Document ci-config.yaml standards and usage patterns.
• Troubleshoot and prevent pipeline incidents.
• Mentor engineers on secure pipeline development and supply-chain practices.

Required Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:

• 7 years engineering; 3 in CI/CD platform or DevSecOps.
• Strong Jenkins Groovy shared library expertise.
• Advanced Python automation (JSON/YAML processing, tooling scripts).
• Deep Maven/NPM/Python packaging knowledge; exposure to Helm/Terraform and container image metadata.
• Supply-chain security (SLSA, CycloneDX SBOM, digests).
• Experience with SonarQube, Sonatype IQ, container and SAST scanning.
• Compliance Awareness
• Proven performance tuning (caching, parallelization, dependency pruning).

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
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