Description:
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you’ll be joining the Cloud Engineering team working to drive solutions for design, build and operational aspects of our infrastructure in Azure Cloud. You will work closely with the engineering and technical support teams to proactively improve our offerings to our clients from a scalability, reliability and speed to market perspective.
Our teams are distributed around the UK with offices based in Camberley and Castle Cary. There are twenty people in the UK today across four teams (product, cloud services, developers, platform and support). We are scaling to over forty people within our department with significant investment from our parent company. This is a hybrid position for the candidate in the South with occasional (monthly) visits to the office.
Skills and Responsibilities
You will:
- Coach and mentor engineers, providing technical guidance to juniors and peers within the team, nurturing a collaborative and innovative environment.
- Contribute to development and implementation of strategy related to cloud platforms and services to best serve the goals of the business.
- Ensure design/change (devops) and execution is aligned and working to best practices around infrastructure and security.
- Design and implement of cloud platforms and services using automation and coding.
- Leverage orchestration and automation techniques to drive efficiency.
- Work with the team on critical analysis, problem solving for operational problems in the platform (logs, metrics, traces) and root cause analysis.
- Configure/build, maintenance and documentation of Azure cloud components.
- Continuously monitor and undertake security analysis of the platform using automated tools.
- Patch and maintain our Windows estate whilst overseeing the move to Linux based operating systems as standard for compute, data and ancillary services.
- Define, contribute and update standard operating procedures for all operational aspects of the platform.
- Be part of the OOH support rota in support of the services your team own and manage.
Essential
- We’re looking for people with the following skills:
- 7 years+ experience in an operational role with a cloud platform (Azure, AWS, GCP) as an engineer or other related technical cloud-focused role.
- Experience working with Microsoft Azure with knowledge of cloud-native services (Azure DNS, Application Gateway, Azure SQL Server, App Services, Blob Storage, Load Balancer, WAF) and best-practices for working with technology.
- An understanding of technologies that underpin a DevOps approach to cloud migration and management, including but not exclusive to, Infrastructure-as-Code, Configuration-as-Code, Containerisation and Orchestration, CI/CD, Test Automation using programming language like Terraform, powershell etc.
- Excellent understanding of networking principles (IP addressing, virtual networks, network security and networking models).
- Understanding of observability and site-reliability principles (SLO’s, SLI’s) and working with engineering teams to improve the applications and platform.
- Good understanding of SQL and working with relational databases.
- Experience working in a production environment to support, operate and maintain applications.
- Experience working with incident management processes and tools (we use OpsGenie).
- Experience working with logging tools (e.g. Log Analytics, Datadog) and monitoring (e.g. Azure Monitor) and application performance management tools (we use New Relic).
- Good understanding of information and data security principles (e.g. GDPR, penetration testing).
- Experience designing solutions and implementing projects.
- Excellent written and verbal communication with excellent critical analysis and problem-solving skills.