Principal DevOps Engineer

Management Level E Business Division: IT Business Function / Department: DSD Job Title: Principal DevOps Engineer Reporting to (Job Title): Engineering Manager Equiniti provides comprehensive solutions to support organizations throughout their corporate lifecycle, including managing shareholder engagement, maintaining stock registers, facilitating ownership transfers, enabling shareholder meetings, paying dividends, supporting IPOs, and administering employee equity plans. We are dedicated to revolutionizing shareholder services by developing digital solutions that facilitate dematerialization for issuers and shareholders. EQ is a fintech that connects the future of capital, communications, and governance, building trust and confidence in every market we serve. Our values set the core foundations to our success. We are TRUSTED to deliver on our commitments, COMMERCIAL in building long term value, COLLABORATIVE in our approach and we IMPROVE by continually enhancing our skills and services. There has never been a better time to join EQ. Role Summary Role Summary The Principal DevOps Engineer is a senior technical leader responsible for shaping and scaling modern DevOps, platform engineering, and release practices across product teams. The role is hands‑on and highly influential, focused on automation, reliability, security, developer productivity, and AI‑assisted engineering. Key Responsibilities DevOps & Engineering Excellence Own and evolve DevOps standards, CI/CD practices, and SDLC guardrails Champion automation‑first, quality‑driven engineering Act as the DevOps technical authority within squads CI/CD & Platform Engineering Design and scale secure, reusable, YAML‑first CI/CD pipelines Drive adoption of trunk‑based development, Infrastructure as Code, and progressive delivery (Blue/Green, Canary) Build reusable pipeline frameworks and platform accelerators Release & Reliability Engineering Lead release planning, risk assessment, deployment, and rollback strategies Ensure systems are observable, resilient, and reversible by design Conduct post‑release reviews and embed continuous improvement AI‑Enabled DevOps (Practical AIOps) Build custom agents to support development, deployment, and infrastructure pipelines Apply AI‑assisted DevOps to improve productivity and reliability, including: Intelligent pipeline failure analysis, AI‑assisted code, pipeline, and infrastructure reviews, Automated root‑cause analysis using logs, metrics, and traces Drive responsible adoption of AIOps and AI tooling where it delivers measurable value Cloud & DevSecOps Design and operate secure cloud platforms on Azure (primary) and AWS Embed DevSecOps and policy‑as‑code into CI/CD pipelines Apply strong fundamentals in networking, security, and enterprise environments Mentorship & Enablement Mentor engineers across Development, QA, and Platform teams Raise DevOps maturity through hands‑on coaching, standards, and guidance Technologies & Frameworks CI/CD: Azure DevOps (YAML & Classic), GitHub Actions, Jenkins Cloud & IaC: Azure, AWS, Terraform, ARM/Bicep, Puppet Containers & Platform: Docker, Microservices, Kubernetes (AKS/EKS desirable) Automation: PowerShell (strong), Bash AI / AIOps: AI‑assisted DevOps tooling, intelligent observability Security & Data: DevSecOps practices, networking, MS SQL, Windows/.NET Experience & Expectations 14+ years in product / SaaS engineering environments Proven experience building and scaling DevOps capabilities Strong systems thinking across speed, reliability, security, and cost Ability to influence senior engineers and leaders without formal authority Success Measures Faster, safer, and predictable releases Highly automated, AI‑assisted DevOps pipelines Improved engineering productivity and reliability DevOps embedded as engineering culture, not just tooling We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks. Our people and platforms connect businesses with markets, engage customers with their investments and allow organisations to grow and transform. Our vision is to help businesses and individuals succeed, creating positive experiences for the millions of people who rely on us for a sustainable future. We provide share registration, deliver services for reward and benefits and develop solutions for customer management in regulated industries. Our work with some of the most significant organisations in the UK and US means we engage with 29 million of their shareholders, pensioners and employees.