Senior Microsoft DevOps Engineer

Closing: Sunday 23rd July 2023

As a Senior Microsoft DevOps Engineer you will be responsible for leading the design and implementation of applications' build, release, deployment and configuration activities as well as supporting live services and designing monitoring and alerting solutions.

You will be involved in building, managing and updating solutions across different platforms. You will also be leading in the creation of reusable pipelines for automated testing and deployment as well as monitoring and alerting solutions.

The role also includes working on platforms and infrastructure deployment (infrastructure-as-code), which may include writing/updating Terraform files.

🚀 What we offer 🚀

We are one of the largest consumers of cloud services in the UK and we make use of many vendors and technologies. We understand that continuous learning is extremely important to you as an engineer. To support you we will give you the materials and time to grow yourself. Additionally, you will have the support of a rapidly growing engineering community!

We offer a lot of autonomy and flexible working patterns that can be agreed based on your personal needs. We currently have a hybrid working model from home with an expectation to be in the office from time to time for team activities which is agreed locally (current minimum is 40% in the office).

Key Responsibilities

• Writing configuration or scripts to deliver/work with our platforms, such as modifying YAML or parametrising JSON files
• Providing technical support, solving more challenging configuration issues including reviewing others work
• Designing and configuring automated monitoring and alerting solutions
• Advising Developers on how they should use existing systems and how they should configure CI/CD pipelines

Please refer to the job advert for the full responsibilities of this role.

👀 About you 👀

We are more interested in people who understand the methodology and fundamentals rather than specific tools. You will be ideal for this role if you have a demonstrable passion for automation and collaboration, with skills or experience in the below:

• Cloud (AWS, Azure or GCP) Architecture and Services provided
• Working knowledge of Git/Source control
• Management and deployment of Serverless functions
• CI/CD pipelines
• Agile ways of working following DevOps principles
• Monitoring, Alerting, Logging tools/methods
• Scripting or configuration e.g. YAML, Bash, Terraform

💜 Some of the benefits our engineers love 💜

• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
• 25 days annual leave on appointment, plus 8 days public holidays and 1 day for the King’s Birthday, rising further with service
• Flexible working options to enable you to achieve the work life balance that right for you including part-time, flexi time and job sharing
• Training and development opportunities tailored to your role
• An in-year bonus scheme
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity

This link is to a short guide on YouTube to employee benefits:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHT1g1Ph0f0