Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer

[Braducken]

Purpose of the role

A member of our DevOps team needs to work closely with development and infrastructure to ensure fast and reliable continuous integration and to help facilitate the move to the cloud. DevOps is part of the technology department and as such it is expected that a candidate has a passion for technology and is always seeking to increase their knowledge and skills.

You will be responsible for:

· Providing leadership and accountability for work you undertake

· Articulating your work and ideas

· Adapting to fast-changing business requirements in a dynamic environment

· Taking on ideas and responding to feedback from the business and other technical experts

· Researching and implementing new technologies within the DevOps space to improve the process of code deployment to our environments, seeking to eliminate inefficiency using relevant technology solutions

· Following a source control culture within the configuration of servers and applications where environment configurations are stored in code for a fully automated process.

· Participating in a 24/7 support roster to support applications after hours, training other DevOps team members to resolve issues and reduce the dependency on yourself or other tech teams after hours.

· Taking part in daily stand-ups with the DevOps team and your assigned Dev teams to receive work and supply updates, and provide input with respect to design, monitoring, deployment, resource and security requirements.

· Attending Development meetings at project inception to ensure DevOps standards are adhered to, especially with respect to logging and monitoring of application health and compatibility with infrastructure design, security requirements and compliance and best practices.

· Maintaining knowledge of the inner workings of all applications within your portfolio, ensuring that all system dependencies are documented.

You will have:

· The ability to rapidly learn and master new technologies; As technology changes, you will be expected to move with the times and become a master in your own right. You’ll need to be a self-starter, not always relying on official/scheduled training. We need someone who loves learning, and who can teach themselves when required.

And Proven Hands-On Experience with:

· Azure DevOps (VSTS) – designing and implementing release processes for development teams (CI/CD)

· Infrastructure as Code (ie: Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM templates, etc)

· Windows Server/Linux and its product suite.

· Experience with monitoring / logging / telemetry (ie: AppInsights / New Relic / App Dynamics / ElasticSearch)

· Azure Containers (or some Kubernetes exposure)

· Experience with a programming / scripting language

· Web application security / WAFs

· Agile methodologies and DevOps principles

Job Competencies:

· Develop rich applications using the latest technology.

· Architect efficient and reusable systems that drive complex applications.

· Have an active role in all features and design decisions, defining system architecture.

· As a Senior Engineer be involved in defining development best practices and applying them in a large, distributed Development Teams.

· Ability to maintain existing code base with variant designs and implementations and strive towards a better tomorrow.

· Have an active role in planning and agile process with team.

· Transfer knowledge to team and upskill team members

Personal Competencies:

· Adaptability

· Ownership & Accountability

· Initiating Action

· Resilience

· Team Orientation

· Integrity and Innovation

· Stress Management

Hybrid model, 50/50 wfh/wfo