DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer Permanent Salary: £40,000 - £60,000 + Benefits Location: Home Based Skills: Terraform, CI/CD Pipelines,  Azure PaaS/IaaS hosting This is a great opportunity to work in a new Azure Team working with cutting edge Azure infrastructure delivering cloud operations spanning multiple business units helping define and implementing the technical strategy. About You You will have a good understanding of working in a DevOps environment, including the following: Experience of Microsoft Azure cloud technologies Experience of internet and cloud network infrastructure Experience of designing, building, and maintaining automation pipelines preferably with Azure DevOps. (Gitlab or Atlassian will also suffice) Experience of containerisation technologies Experience working in an agile or lean methodology having used Epics, Features and Stories to manage work preferably using Kanban Experience of automation and scripting languages PowerShell Azure CLI Experience in DevOps tooling Hashicorp products having used Terraform at least Configuration automation (Ansible preferred) Analytics (Grafana or Splunk preferred) Experience of implementing and maintaining a public key Infrastructure, certificate management and renewal. Experience of version control systems such as git. Preferably using Git Flow. Experience in Microsoft IIS provisioning, configuration, and administration Experience of administering SQL Servers, Instances and Azure SQL technologies. Experience in configuring email SMTP servers, MX, SPF, DKIM and DMARC Experience in using and configuring CDN’s, WAF to front web services. Experience in creating, configuring and maintain networks, subnets firewalls and network security groups A good understanding of modern security principles and techniques (e.g. OWASP) Strong communication and collaboration skills Natural problem solving and innovation mindset Your core responsibilities: You will be responsible for the follow: Keeping up-to date with technical best practice Understand new and emerging technologies and best practices Research into alternative approaches Align the Azure Team to the above Work within the Azure Team on strategic projects, assisting in the delivery of the technical roadmap As new technologies or projects emerge Items both large and small need to be logged Manage work items in an Agile working method Engage with the relevant teams to gather requirements Participate in refinement to create tangible work items Designing and implementing build and release pipelines spanning development through to production for applications within the division. Ensure new products or platforms adhere to the latest CI/CD best practices Maintain all pipelines to adhere to the latest templates or standards, reducing technical dept Continuously monitor and improve deployments Liaise with the relevant teams to align and fulfill customer expectations Ensure reliability and performance of deployments by making them as automated as possible Minimize customer down time during deployments targeting 100% uptime Writing automation to make the infrastructure self-managing and self-service Automate common or repeatable tasks and requests Implement a control gate approach to infrastructure builds and deployments empowering stakeholders self-serve Provide auditing of self-service automation Supporting, maintaining, and providing Azure infrastructure for the division Deliver a consistent approach across all Azure PaaS and IaaS environments Define and implement a process for manual tasks that cannot be automated Creating and using automated tool sets Backups, resilience, DR planning and provisioning Routine infrastructure and application maintenance Patching monitoring for and patching zero-day vulnerabilities. Ensure Infrastructure and cloud environments are secure Infrastructure secret management Maintaining cypher suites Ensuring appropriate security best practices are adhered to Adhere to the principle of least privilege Cost management, optimisation and reporting Ensure that the infrastructure is of the appropriate scale and costs and as cost effective as possible. Manage infrastructure and software in a consistent manor that can be reported upon Provide regular usage and expenditure reports to stakeholders Manage monitoring and reporting of the following: Security Availability Performance SLA’s Alerts when in breach of any of the above Knowledge sharing and mentoring of other team members Ensure that there are no single points of failure Ensure that anyone in the team can pick up operational tasks Create and maintain both technical and process documentation Responsible for maintaining performance and scaling infrastructure where appropriate Occasional out of hours working where required Participating in an on-call rota Out of hours maintenance both emergency and scheduled Continuous improvements Identify day to day activities that can be improved by automation or process change to reduce operational overhead Where required support, maintain and provision legacy application on premises. Responding to tender questions and method statements where applicable. Provide 3 rd line support for all business units. About The Company My client are a leading provider of digital solutions and managed services for public sector and regulated markets. They help organisations around the world to deliver better outcomes for people and places. Recognised Gold Standard ‘Investors in People’ My client’s exceptional team and culture sets them apart. They take great pride in their people and culture – supporting and celebrating the talents, qualities and vital contributions of everyone in the global team. Diversity Leader, ranked as one of the top European companies for workplace diversity and equality - Financial Times 2021. Flexible working Employee Awards Range of benefits In return my client can offer a competitive salary & package and the opportunity join a leading software and solutions company that has gone through a sustained period of growth.  

Job Type : Permanent

Job Role : Dev Ops Engineer

Job Unique ID: JOBID-133

Location Area : Home-Based

Closing Date : Thu, 30 Jun 2022 23:59:59 GMT

Posted By : Ellie Walker

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