DevOps Engineer (Cleanroom Ransomware recovery)
Summary
Contract DevOps Engineer building and automating a secure 'Cleanroom' ransomware recovery environment for a major European bank in hybrid London. Day to day: designing infrastructure that recovers attacked systems into ring-fenced environments for analysis and restoration (~21,000 VMs, ~20PB data), using VMware Aria Automation and expert JavaScript, with Terraform/Ansible desirable.
DevOps Engineer – Contract - Financial Services £500–600/day | Inside IR35 | 12 months | Hybrid London
We’re working with a major European bank looking for a Cleanroom DevOps Engineer to join their Engineering & Enterprise Technology team.
This is a key role within their ransomware recovery environment, helping design, build, automate and maintain a secure infrastructure capable of recovering critical systems following a ransomware attack.
The Role You’ll be working on a rapidly developing environment designed to recover affected systems into secure, ring-fenced environments, where they can be analyzed, cleansed and restored to production.
The role will involve:
- Supporting, designing and implementing infrastructure components
- Building and maintaining a largely autonomous ransomware recovery environment
- Automating and testing infrastructure and engineering applications
- Protecting and recovering application data and infrastructure configuration
- Supporting compute, storage, backup, archive and converged environments
- Improving infrastructure security, recovery processes and automation
- Managing incidents, problems and changes within the Cleanroom
- Ensuring systems meet required security standards
- Working with a small, international team of infrastructure and security specialists
What We’re Looking For You’ll need to be a versatile, experienced T-shaped DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer who is comfortable working across multiple technologies and operating autonomously.
Essential:
- Strong experience with VMware Aria Automation
- Expert-level JavaScript skills
Desirable:
- Experience with Terraform
- Familiarity with Ansible
- Background in infrastructure automation, security, recovery or resilience
- Experience working with large-scale infrastructure environments
Why This Role? You’ll be working on a highly important infrastructure project supporting the recovery of systems across Europe and the Americas, including approximately 21,000 virtual machines and nearly 20PB of data.
It’s an opportunity to work with cutting‑edge security, automation and recovery technologies while helping build a practical, scalable solution that protects critical banking services.
We believe in equal opportunity for all and actively encourage applications from diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.