Junior Azure DevOps Engineer

Salary: £35,000 - £40,000 doe per annum. Location: Hybrid role, home based / Milton Keynes, travel to MK once per month + as and when required.

Applications are welcomed from candidates who have 3+ 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.

Overview:

Working within the existing DevOps engineering team, the individual will have a diverse workload covering (but not limited to):

• Automation of infrastructure and software rollout using Azure DevOps pipelines, including quality gates such as approvals and code quality scanning.


• Deploy/Maintain 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 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


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

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:

An understanding of Azure PaaS components. Key areas:

• AKS (deployment + management)


• API Management


• App Services


• Azure SQL and MI


• Functions


• Networking


• App Insights


• Data Factory


• Databricks

Proven experience with Azure DevOps [ASO]

Solid understanding of

• Terraform


• HELM


• 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-400 (Azure DevOps Engineer)

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

ATA Recruitment Solutions is working in the capacity of an Employment Agency for this position.