DevOps Engineer

We're working exclusively with a major financial institution to hire a contract Cleanroom **DevOps Engineer** into their engineering team. This is a rare opportunity to own a mission\-critical security capability \- the last line of defence in the event of a ransomware attack. **Key info:** **Location:** City of London **Work Type:** Contract (Inside IR35\) **Rate:** £600/day **Hybrid model:** 2 days a week onsite **The Role:** You'll design, implement, automate and maintain a largely autonomous cleanroom (Ransomware Recovery) environment, enabling the rapid recovery of affected systems into ring\-fenced environments where they can be analysed, cleansed and restored to production. You'll protect and recover both application data and infrastructure configuration data across a large estate spanning Europe and the Americas. **What you'll be doing:** * Leading infrastructural improvements in security, recovery and automation * Day\-to\-day support of the cleanroom environment, including incident, problem and change management * Ensuring systems meet security and vulnerability management standards * Working across compute, converged, storage, backup and archive environments * Building and delivering cutting\-edge, highly automated recovery solutions in a small expert team **Required skills:** * **VMware Aria Automation** (formerly vRealize automation) * JavaScript **Preferred skills:** * Terraform * Ansible **What we're looking for:** An experienced, versatile engineer and genuine self\-starter. You'll be comfortable operating with autonomy, thrive in a small high\-calibre team, and bring tangible value from day one. The scope of this role means you'll continually broaden your skills across multiple technologies \- ideal for someone who enjoys breadth as much as depth!