DevOps Engineer - Farnborough

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a DevOps Engineer to work for our client within the finance sector. This is initially a 12-month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role based in Farnborough.

Our client is seeking a dynamic and forward-thinking DevOps Engineer to play a key role in driving automation, efficiency, and quality across their engineering and release processes. This role is instrumental in aligning the client’s products with a shared CI/CD pipeline, promoting DevOps best practices, and improving the stability and effectiveness of their certification environment.

You will work closely with engineering teams, Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), and release management to streamline delivery workflows and ensure a robust, automated path to production. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is passionate about automation, enjoys solving complex technical problems, and thrives in a collaborative, forward-thinking environment.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineering teams, SREs, and release managers to design and implement a clear path toward fully automated production releases
• Continuously evaluate and improve technical processes to enhance release quality, speed, and reliability
• Promote the value and benefits of automation and continuous delivery across technical teams
• Communicate DevOps improvements and demonstrate their impact to stakeholders through tangible results
• Analyse current usage and performance of the certification environment
• Identify and deliver opportunities to improve stability, reduce issues, and increase operational efficiency

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in DevOps role
• Strong experience creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, SonarQube, and Nexus
• Proficiency in scripting languages including Gradle and Groovy
• Practical experience with Ansible for automated deployment and configuration management
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively across teams
• A self-starter with the ability to manage ambiguity and drive outcomes independently
• Experience integrating automated QA testing into CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with WebSphere deployment processes

Why join us

• Career coaching, mentoring and access to upskilling throughout your entire FDM career
• Assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad
• Opportunity to re-skill and up-skill into new areas, develop non-linear career paths and build a skillset within your field
• Annual leave, work-place pension and BAYE share scheme

About FDM

We are a business and technology consultancy and one of the UK's leading employers, recruiting the brightest talent to become the innovators of tomorrow. We have centres across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 3,500 Consultants. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer and is listed on the FTSE4Good Index.   

Diversity and Inclusion

FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.