Senior DevOps Engineer

Role: Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Type: Permanent

Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Working Hours: 40 hours per week (Full-time)

Careers at TCS: It means more

TCS is a purpose-led transformation company, built on belief. We do not just help businesses to transform through technology. We support them in making a meaningful difference to the people and communities they serve - our clients include some of the biggest brands in the UK and worldwide. For you, it means more to make an impact that matters, through challenging projects which demand ambitious innovation and thought leadership.

The Role

We are seeking an accomplished and highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to join our growing engineering team.

In this pivotal role, you will help design, implement, and operate the cloud infrastructure, automation tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and platform services that support our External Marketplace platform and API ecosystem. You will work closely with engineering teams, architects, security specialists, and product stakeholders to build reliable and secure cloud-native solutions.

You will play a key role in establishing infrastructure standards, driving automation initiatives, improving operational resilience, and enabling engineering teams to deliver software quickly and safely. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced DevOps professional who thrives in complex enterprise environments and enjoys solving large-scale engineering challenges.

Your responsibilities:

Infrastructure Automation & Platform Engineering

• Design, implement, and manage scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure primarily on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform and reusable infrastructure modules.
• Build self-service platform capabilities that enable engineering teams to provision and manage infrastructure efficiently.
• Implement infrastructure standards, governance controls, and automation frameworks across multiple environments.

CI/CD & Release Engineering

• Design, build, and optimize enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Harness
• Drive deployment automation, release management, environment provisioning, and configuration management practices.
• Improve deployment reliability through progressive delivery approaches, automated testing, and deployment guardrails.
• Champion GitOps and Infrastructure-as-Code practices across the engineering landscape.

Cloud Architecture & Operations

• Provide technical leadership and guidance on cloud architecture, best practices, and operational excellence
• Support cloud-native services including GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine), Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, Apigee, VPC Networking, IAM, Cloud Monitoring
• Design resilient and observable systems aligned to enterprise security and reliability standards.
• API Platform & Marketplace Enablement
• Build and maintain infrastructure supporting enterprise API platforms and external marketplace services.
• Enable secure onboarding of internal and external API consumers.
• Establish standardized deployment and operational processes for API products and services.
• Support API gateway technologies such as Apigee and enterprise integration platforms.
• Drive incident management, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
• Improve platform availability, scalability, and performance through automation and engineering improvements.
• Take care of Monitoring & Observability
• Implement enterprise monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability solutions.

Utilize tools including:

• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Google Cloud Monitoring
• ELK/Elastic Stack
• OpenTelemetry
• Proactively identify issues before they impact customers and engineering teams.
• Develop dashboards and operational reporting for platform health and reliability.
• DevSecOps & Security
• Embed security best practices throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
• Integrate automated vulnerability scanning, code analysis, policy enforcement, and compliance controls into CI/CD pipelines.
• Partner with Cyber Security teams to ensure compliance with internal and regulatory requirements.
• Support implementation of secure identity and access management controls across cloud platforms.

Operational Excellence:

• Lead resolution of complex production incidents and service disruptions.
• Continuously improve operational procedures, runbooks, and platform support processes.
• Drive automation initiatives that reduce manual effort and improve service reliability.
• Identify opportunities for cloud cost optimization while maintaining performance and resilience.
• Mentoring & Leadership
• Mentor junior engineers and promote DevOps best practices across the engineering community.
• Collaborate with architects, developers, testers, platform teams, and product owners.
• Drive engineering excellence through knowledge sharing, technical leadership, and continuous learning.

Your Profile

Essential skills/knowledge/experience:

• DevOps & Cloud Engineering
• Proven experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure roles.
• Significant experience operating highly available production systems at enterprise scale.
• GCP Expertise (Essential)
• Strong hands-on experience with GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine), Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, VPC Networking, IAM, Cloud Monitoring, Secret Manager, Cloud Storage, Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Expert-level knowledge of Terraform
• Experience building reusable infrastructure modules and automation frameworks.
• Experience with policy-as-code and infrastructure governance.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Container security, Service mesh technologies
• Experience operating production Kubernetes environments.
• CI/CD & Release Management

Desirable skills/knowledge/experience:

• Experience with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Harness, ArgoCD (desirable)
• Strong understanding of GitOps, Deployment strategies, Release automation, Configuration management, API & Integration Technologies
• Experience working with API Gateway technologies such as Apigee, Azure API Management, Kong (desirable)
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, OpenAPI Specifications, OAuth2, JWT, API Security Standards, Observability & Monitoring
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, OpenTelemetry, Google Cloud Monitoring, Scripting & Automation
• Proficiency in one or more: Python [optional], Bash, Go, PowerShell, Networking & Security

Rewards & Benefits

TCS is consistently voted a Top Employer in the UK and globally. Our competitive salary packages feature pension, health care, life assurance, laptop, phone, access to extensive training resources and discounts within the larger Tata network.

We offer health & wellness initiatives and sports events; we are the proud sponsor of the London Marathon.

Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing

Tata Consultancy Services UK&I is committed to meeting the accessibility needs of all individuals in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010 and the UK Human Rights Act 1998.

We welcome and embrace diversity in race, nationality, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, age, physical ability, gender reassignment, sexual orientation. We are a disability inclusive employer and encourage disabled people to apply for this role.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer an interview to applicants with disabilities or long-term conditions who meet the minimum criteria for the role. Please email us at UKI.recruitment@tcs.com if you would like to opt in.

If you are an applicant who needs any adjustments to the application process or interview, please contact us at UKI.recruitment@tcs.com with the subject line: “Adjustment Request” or call TCS London Office 02031552100 / +44 204 520 2575 to request an adjustment. We welcome requests prior to you completing the application and at any stage of the recruitment process.

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