Senior Azure DevOps Engineer

Job Description

JOB DESCRIPTION

About The Role

We are recruiting for a

Senior DevOps Engineer

to join our growing consultancy. The Senior DevOps Engineer is a key role within our

Managed Services

team. You will be working with like-minded, talented engineers across a range of clients, delivering value and driving automation. As part of a close-working and collaborative team, we make data valuable and available to our clients, through consultancy services or product development.

Our solutions help our customers realise value beyond the boundaries of systems and applications. We collaborate with our customers to build and support secure, scalable and well-engineered systems that can be relied on. We love data and have made it our mission to build awesome systems that allow our customers to understand and get the most from their data. The Senior DevOps Engineer will play a key role in all of this.

Requirements of the Role

Champion Infrastructure-as-code and automation in every aspect of the solution, encouraging a platform agnostic approach;
Be prepared to operate in a hands-on development environment, working with several different platforms, languages and frameworks;
Support and encourage the maintenance of best practice and standards in Cloud architecture, data platform development, testing and support;
Share knowledge gained through consultancy and product development with the wider community, with the wider Managed Services team and other Engineering teams.
Ensure that all platforms are delivered in a secure, supportable and scalable manner and are documented appropriately;
Externally represent the Managed Services team at client meetings with the presence of the Technical Operations Manager.
Manage clients’

expectations/communications.

About the Candidate:

We are looking for experience in the following things. We need people who are open to new technologies, quick to adapt, and quick to learn. If you don’t have one of the following please apply and we can discuss in more detail.
Working experience of IaaS, PaaS and Serverless technologies on Azure and willing to develop knowledge of the other key Cloud providers;
Working experience of CI/CD pipelines within Azure DevOps;
Working experience of database development methodologies, including hands on experience with SQL;
Working experience and automation of ETL processes and tools such as SSIS, ADF, Azure Synapse;
Highly scalable data processing platform design and implementation experience;
Understanding of Infrastructure as Code frameworks e.g. Terraform;
Working experience of designing and implementing logging and monitoring stacks to aid observability e.g. Grafana, Cloudwatch, PagerDuty, ELK stack
Good scripting skills in one of PowerShell, Bash/Shell and Python or another appropriate language;
Experience of moving in a fast-paced, agile environment;
Experience of responding to aggressive, delivery-focussed objectives;
Experience of working as part of a Managed Services Provider (MSP) is preferred, but not essential.

About The Company

As well as a competitive salary which we’re transparent about from the outset, you can also expect a range of benefits:

Contributory pension scheme (company 6% with employee contributions of 2%)
25 days holiday plus UK public holidays
Perkbox access for a wide range of discounts
Critical illness cover
Life assurance and death in service cover
Volunteer days
Cycle-to-work scheme for the avid cyclists
Salary sacrifice electric vehicles scheme
Season ticket loans
Financial and general wellbeing sessions
Flexible benefits scheme with options of:
private health cover
private dental cover
additional company pension contributions
additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days)
wellbeing contribution
charity contributions
tree planting