Excellent contract opportunity for an experienced DevOps Engineer (Azure) to join our leading clients growing development team who will contribute to the continued success of products and technical solutions.
You will design, develop and in some cases own the automated deployment, maintenance and monitoring of SaaS products, using your experience to achieve this within optimal cost.
Working with Development Teams, within a Scrum framework, you will design and implement robust procedures for deployment to internal and external environments to minimise downtime and proactively address information security risks through principles of shared responsibility across the Microsoft Azure platform.
Responsibilities:
- Create, maintain and optimise infrastructure as code across Azure.
- Implement continuous integration, deployment and infrastructure / application monitoring through collaboration with key stakeholders.
- Implement processes to support the availability of appropriate pre and production environments for team members including Developers and QA Professionals.
- Support and improve monitoring tools to provide early visibility to the business of (1) Compliance to performance, availability, incident SLA’s; (2) scaling
- decision making around addition resources; (3) escalation of critical events (from security to performance and capacity management).
Role relationships:
Internal
Architects, Development/Scrum Teams, Project Managers, Technical and Business Analysts, Product/Process Owners, and Business Users.
External
3rd party solutions and service providers.
Role accountabilities
- Build and implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) solutions in an Azure environment with Jenkins at the centre and automate the code delivery pipeline with the goal of one click deployments, rollbacks, and parameterised builds.
- Create, maintain and optimise infrastructure as code across Azure.
- Identify areas for continuous improvement, through automation, documentation, process change, or working methods, in addition to business-generated requirements.
- Implement continuous integration, deployment and infrastructure / application monitoring through collaboration with key stakeholders.
- Implement processes to support the availability of appropriate pre and production environments for team members including Developers and QA Professionals.
- Support and improve monitoring tools to provide early visibility to the business of (1) Compliance to performance, availability, incident SLA’s; (2) scaling decision making around additional resources; (3) escalation of critical events (from security to performance and capacity management).
- Be a DevOps champion, subscribe to the DevOps mentality and the philosophy of automating everything.
- Work with the development team to cross-pollenate DevOps processes and ensure that new architectures are drawn up with “ease of management”, delivery, and operability in mind.
- Collaborate with the Information Security team to review risks as well as implement and maintain appropriate controls.
- Troubleshoot application and service issues or system outages while clearly communicating status updates with management and engineering teams.
- Coach and mentor staff members through training and individual support.
- Manage a junior DevOps Engineer in the creation and maintenance of high[1]quality deliverables within agreed project deadlines.
General
- Ensure you follow the financial regulations, policies and procedures.
- Ensure that you follow relevant Health and Safety policies and related
- procedures, keeping up to date with changes and taking action to maintain personal health and safety and that of others.
- The tasks and responsibilities outlined above are not exhaustive, the post holder may undertake other duties as is reasonably required
Please get in touch for further details on this not to be missed contract opportunity.