Azure DevOps Engineer

Manchester

£50-£75K (depending on experience) + Great benefits

Manchester/Hybrid

An Azure DevOps Engineer is required for our public sector client who are based in Manchester. The DevOps Engineer will take technical responsibility for the design, development, integration and configuration of automation components and infrastructures. This role plans and drives development activities and system integrations, as well as builds capabilities including automation and continuous integration. The successful candidate will design large and complex systems, undertakes impact/risk analysis and will make decisions that balance functional and non-functional requirements. You will also ensure adherence to appropriate methods and tools; monitors standards; and will contribute to setting technical policies, guidelines and architecture. The ideal candidate will be hands on and will possess a deep understanding of the Azure ecosystem to join delivery teams working on some of the most exciting digital programmes within the education sector. The organisation has a clearly defined IT digital roadmap leading to 2024/2025. As an Azure expert, you'll work in small product teams alongside developers, architects, designers, analysts and product owners to deliver automation, tooling and cloud infrastructure.

Experience required

• You'll have the expertise and confidence to lead the definition and support of the Azure, AWS and GCP delivery platform in complex engagements, typically working in multi-disciplinary teams.
• Familiarity with collaboration suites ie Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence)
• Hands on with any of Azure, AWS or GCP Services
• Automating cloud services
• Exposure towards Infrastructure Management, Data Migration.
• Scripting with one or more of the following: Powershell, Python, Go
• SecOps experience.
• Automating delivery of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) via Terraform.
• Deep understanding of CI/CD pipeline
• Code Repository Management (eg Gitlab, GitHub, Bitbucket)
• Architecture awareness and experience around enterprise scale applications and distributed systems
• DevOps mind-set towards Automation.
• Understanding of Security Compliance PCI DSS, ISO, Cyber Essentials, NIST.

Desirable Criteria

• Experience with container technologies using Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with Cloud Best Practices, Cost Optimisation and Architecture
• Automating configuration management Ansible.
• Knowledge around Identity Management, DNS, SAML 2.0.

Benefits

Learning and development opportunities -opportunity to obtain Azure qualifications.