Job Description

About the Role:

Next Technology is looking for Senior DevOps Engineers with extensive CI/CD Pipeline development to be aligned to great teams of developers in our tech domains.

We require an individual who has vast experience with Cloud, Ideally Microsoft Azure, and containerisation technologies (Using Docker and Kubernetes) to drive innovation and adoption of new cloud services.

About the team:

We work closely with our Development Domains and Business users to ensure they have the right tools to get our Products to the market as quickly and efficiently as possible, allowing the business growth NEXT has seen over the last few years.

We never standstill, we are constantly looking to evolve our technology, our applications and the services we offer our stakeholders. We really are a group of people who love technology, pushing boundaries and answering the what-ifs!

Working with us would mean exposure to new technologies and ways of working, getting involved in forcing through change and ultimately providing our customers with a better service. Like all departments, we also have challenges with some legacy applications and ‘older’ code languages but who doesn’t love a good challenge?

We can promise an environment that is never dull with the freedom and support to express yourself to come up with new initiatives. If you want to suggest a new way of working, an improvement to an application or try a new technology…go for it!

We run a lean operation in a quick paced environment, so we need our people to be able to work efficiently, accurately and well under pressure. We expect the right individual to have excellent communication skills, being able to work in a team, be involved in open discussion, communicate ideas, inclusion and diversity. Having strong analytical and problem-solving skills will be advantageous especially as the person in this role will be driving forward the new technologies and approach in Next Technology.

Responsibilities:

• Automate the creation & deployment of Development, Test, PreProduction and Production environments via Infrastructure-as-Code
• Create and modify infrastructure code to provision and configure cloud resources in line with IaaS, SaaS and PaaS solutions
• Automate testing of applications/services and integrate with build process
• Manage CI/CD pipelines (YAML) - configure automated infrastructure and software build/deployment/release processes, using Git for version control and code management
• Maintain and govern all test environments to ensure consistency of software and codebase.
• Management of application Source Code, including ensuring that branching strategies are followed
• Create and maintain data refresh processes and scripts ensuring that sensitive data is kept secure and anonymised
• Use monitoring tools for Applications, Servers & Services diagnostics
• Assist Dev teams with performance and volume testing
• Setting up nuget/npm repositories and web servers (IIS, Node.js)
• Identify departmental processes that where possible can be streamlined or automated
• Create and maintain documentation detailing high level and low cloud solutions
• Provide knowledge on Cloud IaaS or Paas infrastructure and configurations, in addition to guiding the Project teams in developing in the most efficient manner and in line with best practices
• Ensure use of DevSecOps principles and work alongside both internal and external Auditing and Security teams in order to maintain security of all environments and data
• Coordinate and liaise with development project teams (Developers, QA Analyst, Project Managers) on requirements, planning and status updates
• Contribute in requirement scoping calls with our business customers and work closely with the Cloud Architects on creating cloud solutions accordingly
• Identify and contribute to internal Continuous Improvement solutions for the wider DevOps teams
• Mentor more junior DevOps Engineers, providing support and guidance on best practices
• Participate in on-call rotations to support critical infrastructure incidents.

About You:

Technical requirements

• IaC (Terraform)
• Azure DevOps, Artifacts, Boards, CI/CD pipelines (YAML), Repositories
• Expert knowledge in DevOps concepts, best practices and Agile principles
• Experience of working with the 3 main CSP’s - Azure being preferred
• Knowledge of on premise to cloud offering migrations
• Microsoft .NET Framework, .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, C#, Node.js, REACT
• PowerShell and Bash scripting
• Networking skills/fundamentals?
• SQL Server / NoSQL databases
• Windows & Linux servers
• Source Control Management (Git)
• Docker containers
• Kubernetes
• Microservices
• Monitoring tool - Dynatrace, OTel, Grafana
• Docker Compose / Helm charts
• DevSecOps Tooling - SonarCloud / PrismaCloud / CrowdStrike

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You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 35,000 people across the UK and Ireland. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 500 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now possible to buy on-line from over 70 countries around the world! So we’ve gone global!