Senior DevOps Engineer - Newport
1 day ago
Hayling Island
About the job Job summary Senior DevOps Engineer Are you passionate about collaborative working and problem solving? Do you enjoy using your technical skills to help teams work more effectively, and get software into the hands of users with speed and stability? Are you looking for a new role in an organisation that treats you as an individual and supports you on your professional and career development journey? Then this is the role for you! We have an exciting opportunity for a DevOps Engineer, within the Platform Engineering group, during the IPO digital transformation journey. Working within an established team, this role provides an opportunity to turn innovative ideas into customer value using a range of technologies and delivery platforms. Key Tech: Azure DevOps YAML Pipelines, Azure, Terraform, scripting, deploying to Azure Machine Learning Working Style This role will be carried out in-line with IP O Hybrid working arrangements where staff are currently expected to spend at least 20% of their time working onsite from one of our offices. This role is based in our Newport Office . The requirement for attendance at an office location can vary by role so we would encourage candidates to discuss working arrangements with the recruiting manager to agree a reasonable balance between working from home and the office. Job description Main duties consist of but are not limited to: • Support all aspects of the software development lifecycle, applying DevOps principles and to lead on developing, implementing, enhancing and managing DevOps practices following agreed processes and best practices., • Applying industry best practices and patterns across infrastructure and application components e.g. availability, security, performance and scalability., • Leading on the design, release and implementation of automated, repeatable, efficient delivery pipelines and holds responsibility for the management, delivery and improvements of the deployments onto Production., • Lead delivery, integration, administration and configuration of DevOps tools, seeking continual improvement and ensuring effective transition onto operational support (where applicable). This includes tools for source control, build, CI & CD support, code reviews, security scans, test automation, monitoring and agile management etc., • Implementing and configuring DevOps specific monitoring, alerting, auditing and notification strategies and be an advocate for security and performance standards in the organisation, • Contributing to technical decisions and directions in a collaborative team environment, including solution architecture, estimations, product planning, user stories (requirement) creation., • Attending Team and Agile Scrum ceremonies., • Sharing knowledge and expertise and providing mentorship and training to other members of the team, enabling them to work in an automated, repeatable fashion., • Strong understanding of DevOps principles and experience of working in a DevOps or iterative development culture., • Excellent knowledge and proven experience implementing continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) tools, including pipeline design and administration., • Experience with automated testing and embedding this in CI/CD pipelines., • Demonstrable experience in service support including troubleshooting and incident resolution., • Experience in identification and tracking of risks and issues., • Substantial development or scripting experience in one or more of the following:, • Python, • Bash, • PowerShell, • Substantial experience in administration and configuration of Azure DevOps Pipelines (preferred) or other CI/CD orchestration tools., • Substantial experience supporting the build and deployment of, or coding in one or more of the following or equivalent:, • Python, • Net Core / C#, • NextJs / Node frontend, • Experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform, • Experience in containerisation technologies and platforms such as Docker or Azure container services such as Azure App Services, Azure Functions, Azure Logic Apps or Azure Container Registry or equivalent., • Experience in managing and supporting distributed source code repositories (Git)., • Changing and Improving, • Making Effective Decisions, • Unlimited Pluralsight video learning access, • Access to Microsoft's ESI training suite, • Hybrid working with no core hours, • Substantial support for career progression, • 25 days annual leave moving to 30 days in annual increments, • UK nationals, • nationals of the Republic of Ireland, • nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK, • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window), • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS), • individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020