Senior DevOps Engineer [Azure]

Salary: Neg / £70k+

Job Type: Permanent / Contract considered
Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer [Azure]
Location: Home Based with some travel
 
Essential is a thorough understanding of Azure PaaS components. Key areas:

• AKS (deployment + management)


• APP Management


• App Services


• Azure SQL and MI


• Functions


• Networking


• App Insights

 
Proven experience with Azure DevOps (ADO)
Solid understanding of:

• Terraform (desired) / Bicep / Pulumi


• HELM charts


• PowerShell / Azure CLI

 
Advantageous:

• Healthcare or Government related industry experience


• Understanding of JIRA and Confluence

 
Required qualifications / Industry Accreditations:
Microsoft certification(s) in Azure, such as AZ-104, AZ-400, AZ-303/4
Experience is valued over accreditation
The client is a Microsoft partner hence there will be encouragement to gain accreditation during employment.
 
The client is a British software development company that builds and delivers market leading applications in the integrated care record and population health space.
Due to expansion, highly skilled individuals are required to help continue the adoption of Azure-native services and contribute to the building of best-of-breed scalable SaaS platforms.
 
Candidates should be able to demonstrate the following:

• 4+ years enterprise experience with Azure


• A passion for cloud technologies, with strong problem solving and critical thinking, good communication skills and a strong work ethic.

 
Working at the sharp end of the existing DevOps team, the individual will have a strong influence and diverse workload covering (but not limited to):

• Mentoring more junior staff


• Automation of infrastructure and software rollout using Azure DevOps pipelines, including quality gates such as peer reviews


• Design and develop Infrastructure, using an IaC approach


• Design and develop automated scaling and failover using deep health checks and insights


• Work closely with other departments, such as Development and Architecture, to ensure that Azure technologies are being used correctly


• Work closely with other departments, such as Ops and TechOps, to facilitate the smooth running of the cloud services by providing utilities/dashboards/scripts etc


• Work closely with the Security teams to analyse and help remediate on internal and SoC flagged issues, along with assisting in internal vulnerability checks/ethical hacking


• Keeping up to date with emerging technologies and advising on how they could be used to better the existing architecture (this may also include PoC)


• Continuous improvement and testing of DR/BCP to ensure high availability


• Comfortable in taking part in architectural discussions with technical / non-technical team members


• Able to self-manage and self-motivate


• An eye for detail and a desire to adhere to best practices


• Strong inter-personal and communication skills


• Able to work under pressure


• Have a desire to keep up with the latest tools and techniques

 
 
Wilde Associates is working in the capacity of an Employment Agency for this role