DevOps Engineer

**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).