DevOps Engineer - ArgoCD - Lorien Impellam - #2083340

DevOps Engineer - ArgoCD
Hybrid Working - London - 1 day a week on site.
Financial Services

Lorien's leading banking client is looking for a DevOps Engineer to join them in the Digital Ecosystem team, you'll help create foundational products and services that standardise and accelerate the adoption of Kubernetes and cloud technologies across the bank.
These products will be consumed by high profile projects such as mobile banking to enable secure, automated, and resilient cloud-native deployments. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on building and operating these core capabilities at scale.

The ideal candidate will have experience with ArgoCD and GitOps-based continuous delivery.

This role is based in London.
This role will be Via Umbrella.
Working in a Hybrid Model of 2 days a week on site.

Key Skills and Experience

• Design, build, and maintain Kubernetes platforms and supporting components for enterprise-scale workloads.
• Deploy and manage AWS infrastructure, ensuring scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency.
• Implement and manage GitOps workflows using ArgoCD for secure, automated continuous delivery (mandatory).
• Develop and optimise CI/CD pipelines (GitLab preferred) to enable rapid and reliable deployments.
• Implement robust cloud security controls, including network perimeter, WAF, and API gateways.
• Create utilities and functions in Python to streamline platform operations.
• Monitor platform performance, manage capacity, and ensure reliability for products consumed by critical services.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to integrate platform capabilities and embed DevOps best practices.

Skills & Experience

• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes (designing, deploying, and managing clusters).
• Mandatory experience with ArgoCD and GitOps-based continuous delivery.
• Proficiency in CI/CD tooling (GitLab preferred).
• Solid experience deploying and managing AWS infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, including perimeter controls, WAF, and API gateways.
• Experience delivering business-critical systems at scale.
• Proficiency in Python for automation and tooling.
• Familiarity with proactive monitoring, capacity planning, and ensuring high availability.

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Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.