DevOps Engineer in Edinburgh

DevOps Engineer in Edinburgh

Edinburgh Full-Time No working from home possible
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The Opportunity

We are seeking an accomplished and highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to join our

growing engineering team.

In this pivotal role, you will help design, implement, and operate the cloud infrastructure,

automation tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and platform services that support our External

Marketplace platform and API ecosystem. You will work closely with engineering teams,

architects, security specialists, and product stakeholders to build reliable and secure

cloud-native solutions.

You will play a key role in establishing infrastructure standards, driving automation

initiatives, improving operational resilience, and enabling engineering teams to deliver

software quickly and safely. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced DevOps

professional who thrives in complex enterprise environments and enjoys solving large-

scale engineering challenges.

What You'll Do

Infrastructure Automation & Platform Engineering

- Design, implement, and manage scalable, secure, and highly available cloud

infrastructure primarily on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform and reusable

infrastructure modules.

- Build self-service platform capabilities that enable engineering teams to provision and

manage infrastructure efficiently.

- Implement infrastructure standards, governance controls, and automation frameworks

across multiple environments.

CI/CD & Release Engineering

Design, build, and optimize enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines using tools such as:

- GitHub Actions

- Jenkins

- GitLab CI/CD

- Harness

Drive deployment automation, release management, environment provisioning, and

configuration management practices.

Improve deployment reliability through progressive delivery approaches, automated

testing, and deployment guardrails.

Champion GitOps and Infrastructure-as-Code practices across the engineering

landscape.

Cloud Architecture & Operations

Provide technical leadership and guidance on cloud architecture, best practices, and

operational excellence.

Support cloud-native services including:

- GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine)

- Cloud Run

- Cloud Functions

- Pub/Sub

- Cloud SQL

- Apigee

- VPC Networking

- IAM

- Cloud Monitoring

- Design resilient and observable systems aligned to enterprise security and reliability

standards.

- API Platform & Marketplace Enablement

- Build and maintain infrastructure supporting enterprise API platforms and external

marketplace services.

- Enable secure onboarding of internal and external API consumers.

- Establish standardized deployment and operational processes for API products and

services.

- Support API gateway technologies such as Apigee and enterprise integration

platforms.

- Drive incident management, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.

- Improve platform availability, scalability, and performance through automation and

engineering improvements.

- Monitoring & Observability

- Implement enterprise monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability solutions.

Utilize tools including:

- Prometheus

- Grafana

- Google Cloud Monitoring

- ELK/Elastic Stack

- OpenTelemetry

- Proactively identify issues before they impact customers and engineering teams.

- Develop dashboards and operational reporting for platform health and reliability.

- DevSecOps & Security

- Embed security best practices throughout the software delivery lifecycle.

- Integrate automated vulnerability scanning, code analysis, policy enforcement, and

compliance controls into CI/CD pipelines.

- Partner with Cyber Security teams to ensure compliance with internal and regulatory

requirements.

- Support implementation of secure identity and access management controls across

cloud platforms.

Operational Excellence:

- Lead resolution of complex production incidents and service disruptions.

- Continuously improve operational procedures, runbooks, and platform support

processes.

- Drive automation initiatives that reduce manual effort and improve service reliability.

- Identify opportunities for cloud cost optimization while maintaining performance and

resilience.

- Mentoring & Leadership

- Mentor junior engineers and promote DevOps best practices across the engineering

community.

- Collaborate with architects, developers, testers, platform teams, and product owners.

- Drive engineering excellence through knowledge sharing, technical leadership, and

continuous learning.

What You'll Need

- Essential Skills & Experience

- DevOps & Cloud Engineering

- Proven experience (10+ years) in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability

Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure roles.

- Significant experience operating highly available production systems at enterprise

scale.

- GCP Expertise (Essential)

Strong hands-on experience with:

- GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine)

- Cloud Run

- Cloud Functions

- Pub/Sub

- Cloud SQL

- VPC Networking

- IAM

- Cloud Monitoring

- Secret Manager

- Cloud Storage

- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

- Expert-level knowledge of Terraform.

- Experience building reusable infrastructure modules and automation frameworks.

- Experience with policy-as-code and infrastructure governance.

Kubernetes & Containerization

- Strong experience with:

- Kubernetes

- Docker

- Container security

- Service mesh technologies

- Experience operating production Kubernetes environments.

- CI/CD & Release Management

Experience with:

- GitHub Actions

- Jenkins

- GitLab CI/CD

- Harness

- ArgoCD (desirable)

Strong understanding of:

- GitOps

- Deployment strategies

- Release automation

- Configuration management

- API & Integration Technologies

Experience working with API Gateway technologies such as:

- Apigee

- Azure API Management

- Kong (desirable)

- Strong understanding of:

- REST APIs

- OpenAPI Specifications

- OAuth2

- JWT

- API Security Standards

- Observability & Monitoring

Experience with:

- Prometheus

- Grafana

- ELK Stack

- OpenTelemetry

- Google Cloud Monitoring

- Scripting & Automation

Proficiency in one or more of:

- Python [optional]

- Bash

- Go

- PowerShell

- Networking & Security

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Contact Details:

Wipro Europe Recruitment Team