Azure Devops Architect

Salary: £60,000 - £70,000 doe per annum. Location: Hybrid role Milton Keynes / Home based + travel at least once a month + as and when required.

Overview:

Applications are welcomed from candidates who have 5+ years enterprise experience with Azure, who can demonstrate a real passion for cloud technologies, with strong problem solving and critical thinking, good communication skills and a strong work ethic.

Excellent opportunity to work for a British healthcare software development company that has recently been awarded “Outstanding” by Best Companies, earning a top 100 spot in the mid-sized companies’ category, amongst other accolades.

They have high ambitions and are looking to bring in highly skilled individuals to help continue the adoption of Azure-native services and building a best-of-breed scalable SaaS platform for their solutions.

Working collaboratively with the existing DevOps engineering team alongside the lead DevOps Architect, the individual will have an influence and diverse workload covering (but not limited to):

• Design 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, that aligns with industry best practices such as the Azure Well-Architected Framework.


• Design and develop automatic scaling and highly-available solutions.


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


• Work closely with the Security teams to design secure solutions from the get-go and assist with validating designs against best practices.


• Keeping up to date with emerging technologies and advising on how they could be used to better the existing architecture (this will likely include completing a PoC).

Personal Attributes:

• Able to work well as an individual and as part of a team

• Take 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

Experience & Skills:

• Strong documentation and diagramming skills to convey complex concepts in a simple manner.  

• An understanding of Azure PaaS components. Key areas: AKS (deployment + management)

• API Management

• App Services

• Azure SQL

• Functions

• Networking

• App Insights

• Data Factory

• Databricks

• Proven experience with Azure DevOps (ADO)

• Solid understanding of Terraform

• HELM charts

• Flux

• PowerShell / Azure CLI

Advantageous:

• Healthcare or Government related industry experience

• Understanding of JIRA and Confluence

Qualifications:

• Microsoft certification(s) in Azure, such as AZ-305 (Azure Solutions Architect)

Experience is valued over accreditation, however, as the client is a Microsoft partner, there will be encouragement to gain accreditation during employment.

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