DevOps engineer in banking in London

Handelsbanken combines a long-established relationship banking model with secure, resilient, and customer-focused technology. Our technology teams enable the Bank’s decentralised way of working, delivering systems built for stability, trust, and long-term value. We are on a multi-year technology and digital transformation journey to enhance customer experience and improve how colleagues work together. By modernising platforms, simplifying processes, and better connecting data and systems, we help relationship teams focus on customers and less on complexity.

Responsibilities:

• Promote modern engineering and DevOps practices across the UK technology organisation at the Bank.
• Provide support to engineering teams in improving their software delivery, automation and operational maturity.
• Provide support to and mentor junior members of the teams.
• Balance priorities between existing on-premise applications and tooling and driving our Cloud adoption forwards.
• Implement and manage build pipelines to automate software build, test, and deployment processes to support rapid and reliable releases.
• Design and implement observability capabilities including robust monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions enabling the tracking of system performance, detection of issues, and proactive troubleshooting.
• Manage version control systems (e.g. Git) and ensure best practices are followed for code branching, merging, and repository management.
• Monitor and optimize system performance, identifying bottlenecks and collaborating with developers to resolve issues.
• Ensure appropriate backup, disaster recovery, and failover strategies are in place to ensure business continuity and high availability of applications and services.
• Understand centrally provided capabilities and encourage teams to make the best use of them.
• Influence platform/system teams who are using tools like Bicep and Ansible to automate the provisioning and configuration of infrastructure components, providing expertise and communicating requirements that will ensure consistency and reliability across environments.
• Contribute to the work adopting centrally provided containerization platforms like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes as well as cloud native services to manage and scale applications efficiently.
• Maintain detailed documentation of infrastructure and operational documentation.

Requirements:

• Recent strong experience in DevOps practices, including developing build pipelines, automation, and observability, preferably in the banking or financial services sector.
• Proficient in the use of scripting and programming languages (e.g., Bash, Python, Ruby, PowerShell) for automation.
• Significant exposure to CI pipeline tooling (e.g. TeamCity, Azure DevOps, Jenkins etc).
• Knowledge of configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible).
• Strong experience of configuring and managing operating systems, particularly Linux, and release and support of applications, particularly Java EE services.
• Experience working with containerisation and orchestration technologies (e.g. Docker and Kubernetes).
• Detailed knowledge of and experience using at least one major cloud platform (preferably Azure) with awareness of comparable services across providers.
• Experience in the use and management of version control systems (e.g. Git) and collaboration tools.
• Good understanding of networking concepts and security practices in cloud environments.
• Experience of supporting and mentoring others.

Conditions:

Alongside brilliant colleagues, meaningful work and training and development opportunities, we provide a variety of benefits designed with your wellbeing in mind. There is a flexible benefits package with the key highlights detailed below.