DevOps Engineer

Role: DevOps Engineer x 2
Location: Hybrid (Brighton (2 days per week) and home)

Salary: £63 - 81K + exceptional Employee Benefits

Key Skills: DevOps/ Platform Engineer, Terraform, Azure, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, strong communication skills

Summary: Our client is a high-profile organisation with a large IT function responsible for delivering consistently accurate, efficient, and quality based data services. This role joins a hands-on technical team enabling the growth and development of the companies' technologies, implementing fast and effective change adhering to a cloud first strategy. The DevOps Engineers helps increase business agility through the reduction of delivery timelines and the optimisation and automation of IT infrastructure platforms.

The role:

• Creating a new platform for development work, creating standard pipelines and automation processes. Design, develop, build and automate CI/CD pipelines to streamline solutions. This includes cloud environments, automations, DevOps toolsets and development of Infrastructure as Code principles.
• Oversee, estimate and prioritise work items
• Proactively engage and drive collaboration across technical groups, project teams and service providers, driving best practise.
• Support migration of IT infrastructure into Azure IaaS, PaaS and SaaS cloud introducing Infrastructure as Code principles and tools.

You need to be able to demonstrate:

• Ability to work 2 days per week in Brighton
• Experience using CI and CD tooling to create, build and release processes for different types of applications in a predominantly .NET ecosystem, including solving complex CI problems (for example, Azure DevOps, TFS, TeamCity).
• Good experience of collaborating across teams to investigate, diagnose and fix problems using creative thought processes within large-scale IT systems, and ability to identify, design and deliver long term improvements in DevOps efficiencies.
• Good experience with configuring management and workflow automation tools (for example, Terraform and PowerShell DSC).
• Good experience and understanding of using Agile methodologies to plan, develop, test and deliver software through the value stream.
• Working knowledge of MS Azure technologies including experience designing CD for Azure App Services.
• Working knowledge of automated testing tooling such as Selenium, particularly in their use in continuous integration.
• Strong communications and collaboration skills to enable multi team design, delivery and problem solving.

Desirable

• Knowledge of PowerShell, C#, .Net framework and SQL.
• Familiarity with orchestration systems and containerisation, for example, Kubernetes, Docker.

** Please note that technical tests in Terraform and Azure DevOps will be used as part of the screening for these roles **