DevOps Engineer – CI/CD & QA Automation

About the role

We are partnering with a leading insurance client on a large‑scale transformation programme and need a DevOps / QA Engineer to design, build and maintain resilient CI/CD infrastructure. The role sits at the intersection of DevOps, platform engineering and quality assurance, offering technical ownership of automation, testing and release reliability.

Key responsibilities

• Build, optimise and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Develop and maintain automated smoke, integration, performance and security tests within the deployment lifecycle.
• Design and implement automated rollback and fail‑over procedures to minimise downtime.
• Partner with engineering teams to diagnose build failures and drive remediation.
• Support continuous improvement of deployment automation, testing standards and release quality.
• Prepare and deliver weekly system demonstrations covering infrastructure health, performance benchmarks and security metrics.
• Contribute to best‑practice documentation for DevOps, QA automation and release engineering.

Required profile

• 4+ years of experience in DevOps, CI/CD engineering and QA/testing environments.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work cross‑functionally.
• Hands‑on experience troubleshooting deployment failures and supporting remediation activities.
• Experience in enterprise or regulated environments is desirable.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and Infrastructure as Code practices is a plus.

Required skills

• CI/CD pipelines
• Deployment automation
• Version control systems
• Automated testing frameworks
• Scripting (e.g., Python, Bash)
• Cloud infrastructure
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices