Azure DevOps Engineer

A great opportunity for a DevOps Azure Platform Engineer for a long term engagement for a leading financial organisation with a dynamic and vibrant environment. There is great scope for learning more on the job with additional training and budgets provided to gain other types of certificates within your area of expertise. The ideal start date is February 2021 or earlier if possible.

Key responsibilities as a platform engineer

• Engineer complex Azure cloud infrastructures for DevOps teams

• Implement a platform runtime that allows development teams to deploy and manage their services on Azure

• Deeply engage with our DevOps teams to understand their architecture and operation’s needs, and work to continuously improve overall Azure platform support

• Collaborate with Azure engineering teams to support delivery of solutions and new platform capabilities for our DevOps teams in most critical Azure deployments

• Apply an engineering mindset to eliminate top issues impacting DevOps teams across Value Streams

• Act as a technical escalation point within the DevOps team with respect to platform issues

• Participate in scrum meetings with other DevOps teams to share knowledge with other engineers and develop efficient solutions

• Consistently share best practices with DevOps teams and help create a knowledge base to solve/workaround recurring issues

Required Skills/Experience

• 8+ years in a technical position.

• Desired degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Equivalent Experience.

• Certification in Microsoft and/or competing Cloud Technologies is desired

• Deep Understanding of cloud computing technologies across Windows and Linux, with demonstrated hands-on experience in the following domains:

• Azure Core Platform: Compute, Storage, Networking required

• AKS or Kubernetes engineering highly desired

• Data Platform: Azure, SQL Server, Azure SQL DB, Azure Data Factory

• Application development & debugging experience: C/C++/C#, Python, Node.JS, etc.

• Identity and Authentication Management: SSO/Federation, AD/Azure AD etc.

• Experience in one or more automation languages (PowerShell, Python, C#, Open Source) desired

If this is of interest, please share your latest CV and a follow up can be arranged at a convenient time.