Senior Azure DevOps Engineer

Your responsibilities will include:

• Designing, building, test and run significant components within a modern digital service platform.
• A focus on automation of component deployment will be required.
• Producing designs that are scalable, resilient, efficient, secure, cost-effective and minimise lock-in.
• Contributing to technical decisions and direction in a collaborative team environment, including architecture, estimation, product planning, user story/requirement creation.
• Implementing modern Continuous Delivery processes for releasing software to production.
• Applying industry best practices and patterns across infrastructure and application components e.g. security, elasticity, performance.
• Using public cloud platform(s) to solve business problems (Azure, GCP is a desirable).
• Applying configuration management, infrastructure provisioning and container orchestration tooling to solve business problems.
• In a customer-facing role you will implement DevOps processes and tooling for the delivery of IaaS and PaaS services using IaC in the public cloud.
• Automate the configuration and management of cloud workloads in Azure.
• Build toolchains to support automated builds, tests, and deployments of applications to public cloud platforms
• Contribute to technical decisions in a collaborative team environment.

Requirements

Essential criteria:

• 7 years’ experience in Information Technology with 5 years DevOps experience with a focus on Microsoft Azure
• Strong demonstratable experience with Azure DevOps (or equivalent CI/CD tooling), scripting languages, and configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, PowerShell DSC
• Experiencing building and configuring cloud services via Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
• Good knowledge on Microsoft Cloud adoption framework for Azure
• One or more of the following Azure certifications: Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
• Experience of implementing modern CI/CD processes for releasing software
• Experience in implementing and advocating for DevOps methodologies and processes.
• Broad experience building and configuring Azure IaaS and PaaS service (i.e., App Service, VNETs, NSGs, SQL databases, Service Bus, Function Apps, Key Vault, Logic Apps)
• Experience of platform/infrastructure architecture and design best practices, e.g. networking, security, and governance best practices
• Self-driven approach at work with an intrinsic motivation to excel and take ownership of tasks and projects.
• Azure Cloud Ops & build pipeline Azure Networking (vNets, firewalls AZLB’s etc.)
• Azure Components (AKS, ACR, Key Vault, App Gateway, Azure SQL, API Manager)
• Azure Devops (pipelines, repos, releases etc.)
• Hashicorp Terraform
• Ansible
• Monitoring (Azure monitor, App Insights, Log Analytics and Dynatrace)
• Ideally exposure to (data Center) Migration Projects
• Desirable Exposure to Node.
• JS based micro services using RESTful and gRPC comms.