Permanent
London(hybrid)
CollinsonGroup is a global leader in driving loyalty and engagement for manyof the worlds largest companies. Predominantly through theprovision of travel related benefits within a market leadingdigital travel ecosystem. The group offers a unique blend ofindustry and sector specialists who together provide marketleadingexperience in delivering products and services across four corecapabilities: Loyalty Lifestyle Benefits andInsurance.
The group provides unrivalled insightand expertise around affluent consumers and frequent travellerscreating and delivering products and services now accessible toover 400m end consumers.
We have more than 25years experience with 28 global locations servicing over 800clients in 170 countries employing 1800people.
We have been bringing innovation to themarket since inception from launching the first independent globalVIP lounge access Programme Priority Pass to being the first tosell direct travel insurance in the UK through Columbus Direct andcreating the first loyalty agency of its kind in the travel sectorwith ICLP. Today we still invest heavily in innovation to ensurethat we continue to deliver superior customerexperiences.
Key clients include: Visa MastercardAmerican Express Cathay Pacific British Airways LATAM Flying BlueAccor EasyJet HSBC Chase HDFC.
Our mission isfocused on doing good beyond profit which for us means we seek outopportunities for our people to share in our success and that wegive back to the communities and people within which wework.
Never short of ambition the success of ourbusiness is delivered through the diverse and talented team of over1800 colleagues globally.
Purposeof the job
We are looking for aDevOps Engineer to join our Engineering Team.As a key member of ourteam youll play a pivotal role in maintaining and enhancing ourstrategic platform. Your handson involvement will directly impactour core Insurance functions driving efficiency innovation andreliability.
You will be workingwithdevelopment and infrastructure teams to manage and improvethebuild automation continuous integration and automation ofourrelease and deploymentprocesses. By partnering with fellowDevOps Engineers Software Engineers and Architects youll tap into awealth of knowledge and collectiveexpertise.
Some key projects for the team willinvolvework on security hardening of systems in AWS and Azureandprocess automation.
You will have theopportunity to work with cuttingedge technologies and experienceall aspects of the software developmentlifecycle.
KeyResponsibilities
* Actively seek to enhance improve and drive efficienciesinto our environments
* Design and Document newprocesses; maintain existing process documentation
* Monitor and look to improve the security of ourenvironments
* Monitor metrics and develop waysto improve
* Handle IaC code deployments in allenvironments
* Communicate and collaborate withboth development and infrastructure teams as well as otherdepartments to ensure our applications and environments are stableand optimal
* Ensure that technical informationrelated to DevOps are available in the knowledgebase and kept up todate
* To keep up to date with the technologiesrequired to perform well in the job
* Assistproject teams during the full life cycle of projects. Bringingtechnical knowledge and skills to improve upon the automation ofbuilds and deployments
* Seek to automate andenhance new and existing processes
Knowledge skills and experiencerequired
* EnterpriseDevOps experience
* Experience in monitoring andtuning systems to provide optimum performance and highavailability
* Experience in hardening internaland external system security
Essential Technical skills
* Terraform
* Git
* PowerShell/Python
* Windows
* Experience with AWS or Azure Cloud Platforms
Desirable Technical skills
* Puppet
* Continuous Deploymentpipelines
* APM Tools
* Continuous Delivery Pipelines
Personalskills
* The ability todemonstrate through examples the effective management ofstakeholder relationships
* Excellent writtenand spoken English
* Personable enthusiastic anda good communicator (ability to present inform and guideothers)
* Ability to bridge communicationsbetween technical and business focussed groups
* Passionate about technology willingness to learn aboutnew and emerging technology within web cloud languages frameworksand methodologies
* Ability to thrive in a fastmoving and changing environment
* Ability toshow initiative and to work independently
* Willingness to take on a variety of roles andresponsibilities
Collinson is anequal opportunity employer and welcomes differences in all theirforms including: colour race ethnicity gender identity sexualorientation neurodivergence family status age individuals withdisabilities and people from all backgrounds cultures andexperiences as we strongly believe this contributes to our ongoingsuccess.
We are focused oncontinually evolving our purpose driven high performing cultureproviding an environment where our people have the opportunity toachieve their full potential and do interesting and meaningfulwork. Our company values are: Act smarter Do the right thing Oneteam and Be insight led. These help guide everything we dointernally in terms of how we think act and interact right throughto how we deliver value to our customers and clients.
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