Job Description

Posted 2 weeks ago

Senior Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer

UK Wide

£65,000 – £80,000 + perm benefits

Eligibility for Security Clearance is required for this role!

A leading consultancy organisation is looking to grow and add a couple Senior Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer. This is a great opportunity to be involved in a some of the biggest and most exciting IT projects all built on Microsoft technology within Azure. You'll work in a cloud-first environment to build out a continuous integration process married with a solid release strategy while having the ability to upskill our client's team members and advise on best practice and strategy.

Your role

Understand the current client/project landscape and shape the design of the DevOps processes.
Identify the accelerators that can be introduced to assist with the implementation and adoption of DevOps across projects.
Help shape and implement delivery best practices across projects e.g. branching strategy, testing methodology, CI/CD and pipelines.
Implement, manage and maintain DevOps processes and ensure adoption by the implementation teams of our projects.
Act as a developer and subject matter expert on delivery engagements for clients to constantly enhance documented processes and improve the operational performance and security of systems.
Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and release velocity.
Help define processes and standards, following Open Source best practices and keeping abreast of industry trends.

Your skills and experience

Energy and excitement about DevOps with experience in developing and implementing DevOps processes within an organization across Azure, .NET, Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform. A passion for software engineering and experience with industry-wide standards and best practices. And with an understanding of the following areas.
At least one modern programming language Java/C#/Java Script/Python/Go/Ruby etc.
Understanding of scripting languages, PowerShell/Bash.
Automating the creation and maintenance of complex cloud infrastructure (anything as code).
PaaS, Serverless, IaaS including VMs, Storage and security configuration.
Application of security engineering principles (DevSecOps).
Automation and Configuration Management tools such as Terraform.
Source code control repository for Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) or Git.
Azure Services (Application Insights, Azure DevTest Lab, API Management, Web and Mobile Apps, Windows VM etc.).
Container and Container Orchestration tools, e.g. Docker and Kubernetes.
Hands on experience of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD), ideally using Azure DevOps and with awareness of other CI/CD & build automation tools (Jenkins, Quick Build, Teamcity, GitLab, Octopus Deploy etc.)

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