DevOps Engineer SFTPGo Axway Red Hat Banking

A leading financial services organisation is seeking a DevOps Engineer on a contract basis.

You will be required to work onsite at the client office 3 days per week. Please DO NOT apply unless you can commit to this.

The DevOps Engineer must have experience in SFTPGo/Axway and Red Hat OpenShift.

Our client are replacing their existing Axway Managed File Transfer platform with SFTP-Go running on Red Hat OpenShift (OCP). The solution will be delivered as a shared, secure and resilient file-transfer platform for internal and external clients.

The DevOps Engineers will provide hands-on platform engineering and infrastructure-as-code capability. Working as part of the SFTP-Go delivery team, they will build and automate the platform, establish GitOps and CI/CD delivery, implement onboarding pipelines, support operational readiness and assist with the controlled migration of services from Axway.

Essential Skills and Experience

* Strong hands-on Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift experience supporting production workloads, including deployments, services, ingress or routes, RBAC, network policies, persistent storage and storage classes.

* Practical experience authoring and maintaining non-trivial Helm charts.

* Strong Terraform experience, including reusable modules, peer review and state management for production environments.

* Hands-on GitOps experience using Argo CD or an equivalent tool, with Git-centred and pull-request-based workflows.

* Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitLab CI, GitHub Actions or Tekton.

* Strong Linux fundamentals and scripting or automation experience.

* Experience working with containers, registries, image build processes and deployment promotion.

* Working knowledge of secrets management and TLS/PKI fundamentals.

* A declarative, automation-first approach, with a strong preference for documented, repeatable and auditable change.

* Exposure to SFTP-Go, Axway or another Managed File Transfer platform.

* Ability to work effectively across Architecture, Infrastructure, Security, Network, Database, Operations, Integration and application teams
Only candidates based in UK and eligible to work in UK are allowed