Job description

Systems & Cloud Engineer (DevOps)

Location:

Hybrid - Must be commutable at least twice a week to: Peterborough, Cambridgeshire or Tunbridge Wells, Kent or Chesterfield, Derbyshire Offices

We are currently seeking a Systems & Cloud Engineer (DevOps) for a leading and expanding insurance group.

This role will implement and support the delivery of infrastructure and software software-based projects around the group into automated and managed Continuous Integration/Delivery pipelines (CI/CD) to save time and manual effort, and to speed up the secure development/deployment cycle and reduce errors.

This role is expected to be the interface between the development team members and other departments to help achieve delivery of applications using CI/CD pipelines. To design (and adhere to) standards and best practises to be followed through these pipelines as they move between different environments on the road to Production.

CI/CD practises are not exclusive to in-house developed software applications, and therefore other existing applications and installations can be introduced to Continuous Delivery mechanisms through scripting and deployment frameworks. Similarly, CI/CD pipelines can be split between on premise infrastructure and Cloud based setups predominantly Azure.

We have a hybrid multi-cloud strategy so other clouds and on premise work will be included.

Key tasks:

• To assist the developers and development teams to achieve their goals in projects or BAU work streams
• Design, support and implement the CI/CD ecosystem
• Maintain and implement industry best-practises for automated configuration management and security
• Deliver a seamless CI/CD solution to one or more Cloud platforms, primarily Azure, and on premises
• We own our changes and ensure they are tested every step of the way
• To work in Agile based iterations within multiple teams as required
• To work with 3rd parties as required.
• To ensure the right level of documentation is created, available and maintained where it relates to DevOps practices.
• To continue to develop the group's technical capabilities using existing and emerging technologies.
• Ensure our solutions minimise system downtime and customer impact
• Take ownership for platform solutions and optimisations, ensuring operational and project outcomes are achieved
• Contribute to the continuous improvement culture by regularly reviewing and enhancing processes, practices, and standards.

Key competencies, skills and knowledge

• The ability to automate deployments and infrastructure creation in Cloud (primarily Azure, however a multi-Cloud strategy is being followed so DevOps and System Engineering skills in any of the Clouds would be considered (AWS, GCP)
• Must be a team player and be able to share your successes and learnings
• Technical problem solving from a complex environment
• Proficient with Terraform, PowerShell, Kubernetes, Docker for containerisation.
• Experience of source code management tools such Git/GitHub
• Expert understanding of DevOps principles and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts and techniques
• Experience of PaaS, IaaS, VM, Networking is an advantage