Job Description:

Barclays | 6-Month Contract | Inside IR35
📍 Location: Glasgow (preferred) | Manchester or Northampton also considered
🏢 Working Pattern: Hybrid - 2 days per week in the office
📅 Contract Length: 6 Months
💷 Rate: Up to £640 per day (Inside IR35 via Umbrella)

Barclays is looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join a high-performing technology team supporting the delivery of critical applications and infrastructure across the bank. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a large-scale enterprise environment, helping to drive automation, improve CI/CD processes, and support cloud-native engineering practices.
You'll work closely with development, infrastructure, and security teams to build and maintain robust, scalable, and secure platforms that enable faster and more reliable software delivery.

• Design, implement, and support CI/CD pipelines
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management
• Support cloud-based and on-premise environments
• Drive DevOps best practices across development teams
• Monitor and maintain platform performance, availability, and security
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure and deployment issues
• Collaborate with software engineers, architects, and stakeholders to improve delivery processes
• Contribute to infrastructure-as-code and automation initiatives

• Strong commercial experience within a DevOps Engineering role
• Expertise with CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps or similar
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform
• Strong scripting skills using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar
• Experience with containerisation technologies including Docker and Kubernetes/OpenShift
• Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP
• Strong understanding of Linux and distributed systems
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools
• Familiarity with security and compliance best practices within enterprise environments

• Previous experience within Financial Services or a highly regulated environment
• Exposure to SRE principles and observability tooling
• Experience supporting large-scale, mission-critical applications