Job Description

Azure DevOps Engineer / Cloud Engineer

A talented and ambitious Azure DevOps Engineer is required to join a digital challenger and scale up within the financial services sector.

We are looking for a hands on Azure DevOps Engineer who has a passion for learning and personal development with cloud technologies to manage our clients modern and complex Microsoft Azure estate.

The role.

As part of its exiting and progressive change agenda, our client is migrating its key systems to a multi-vendor API driven microservices model. As a DevOps Engineer, you will work to architect, develop and administer these systems across the Azure estate.

You will use your management, deployment, and monitoring skills to strike the perfect balance to achieve both speed and reliability.

Your key responsibilities will be

• To deploy and manage multiple integrated systems
• To manage web and database components of several applications.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure and network issues that affect multiple business functions.
• Design and deploy Azure data protection features.
• Work cross departmentally, managing our clients infrastructure partner teams.
• Design and monitor high performing, secure virtual networks that can handle high levels of performance and workload.
• Discover and deploy best in class cloud based solutions.
• Monitor and then communicate the methods that best support the deployment of applications and infrastructure.

About you.

Ideally, we are looking for an Azure DevOps Engineer who will offer:

• An appetite for knowledge and a passion for how technology & cloud innovation can bring advantage and new opportunity.
• Technical leadership experience that spans complex integration projects.
• Ability to work without top-down leadership.
• A strong team ethic
• The ability to multi task and juggle many projects simultaneously.
• A clear and empathetic communication style.

Your technical expertise should include an understanding or knowledge of some / most of the following.

• Microsoft Azure Technologies.
• Expert level skills in powershell
• Windows and Linux operating systems administration
• Microsoft Azure DevOps
• IaaS experience
• PaaS services experience (database services Kubernetes)
• IP Subnetting, Network security Groups, routing, Azure firewall, load balancing, DNS
• Database technologies relational and non relational
• Some coding or scripting skills (any of - C#, java, python)
• A familiarity with the Atlassian toolset (Jira/Confluence)
• Domain driven design.
• Azure certifications and accreditations are desirable but not essential
• Some experience of working within the financial services / fintech sector again is desirable but not essential

The benefits.

In exchange for your expertise, you will have the opportunity to make a real difference and be part of a culture that is driven to make life better. You can expect a range of benefits that include:

• Flexible remote working although ideally you will be able to attend 1 day per month in the office or more if you prefer
• Discretionary company bonus
• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance x4
• 6% Company Pension
• 24/7 GP service
• Medicash
• Travel insurance and much more