Job Description
Salary circa £45,000 - £60,000 depending on experience
Hybrid Working (2 days / week on site). Please note that we are based in a rural location with no public transport.
Renishaw is undertaking an ambitious global programme to implement Microsoft Dynamics 365 across its subsidiary network. The organisation is seeking a number of motivated DevOps Engineers to support the delivery and maintenance of Azure-based environments and the associated application software releases. These roles focus on supporting the delivery, automation, and ongoing maintenance of D365 environments and CI/CD pipelines, ensuring deployments are consistent and repeatable across both Customer Engagement (CE) and Finance & Operations (F&O) solutions.
The successful candidates will demonstrate strong Azure platform management skills and possess the ability to prioritise workloads effectively in a fast-paced hybrid environment.
Key Responsibilities
1. Execute application deployments via Azure DevOps pipelines.
2. Maintain and automate non-production D365 environments.
3. Implement and improve CI/CD pipelines for D365, covering both CE and F&O modules.
4. Create scripts, templates, and tools to streamline deployment processes.
5. Deploy new releases and implement new environments as required.
6. Automate environment data refresh activities.
7. Monitor environments, proactively identify issues, and support root-cause analysis.
8. Collaborate closely with developers, testers, and release managers to ensure seamless deployments.
9. Prepare deployment documentation and artefacts for governance and traceability.
10. Adhere to release governance processes and escalate risks appropriately.
Key Requirements
11. Extensive hands-on experience with Azure DevOps, CI/CD, ALM, and cloud automation.
12. Demonstrate strong experience with Power Platform and Lifecycle Services (LCS).
13. Familiarity with D365 architecture, including both Finance & Operations (F&O) and Customer Engagement (CE).
14. Ability to integrate and configure CE & F&O solutions.
15. Proficiency with tools such as Visual Studio Code, PowerShell, YAML, Git, and pipeline automation frameworks.
16. Understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.
17. Strong attention to detail and a methodical approach to deployment activities.
Person Specification
18. Keen problem-solver with a passion for improving automation processes.
19. Comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced hybrid environment.
20. Dedicated to learning and adopting modern DevOps and cloud technologies.
Desirable Skills and Experience
21. Proficiency in performance and capacity investigation and management, including the use of AI where appropriate.
22. Use machine learning models to automatically detect abnormal, risky, or unexpected behaviour in data (AI/ML).
23. Experience in configuring and deploying AI tools to enhance DevOps operations.
24. Background in configuration and support of build servers.
25. Familiarity with the Atlassian software stack, including Confluence, Jira, and Bitbucket.
26. Experience working with ServiceNow.
Benefits
When you join Renishaw, we're committing to your future career. That's because we believe in developing our people's skills and promoting them internally. We also offer a benefits package that's highly desirable; including a 9% non-contributory pension, discretionary annual bonus, *subsidised onsite restaurants and *coffee shops, free parking, *car sharing scheme and *24 hour fitness centres. ( not available at all sites).
We also want to promote a healthy work-life balance as much as possible, so we have introduced a hybrid working policy which allows for a combination of home and office based working depending on the nature of your role. We also offer a variable working programme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, Life Assurance policy of 12 times annual salary, Cycle to Work scheme, enhanced maternity pay subject to qualifying criteria, Health Cash Plan, the option to join BUPA Renishaw Health Trust and an Employee Assistance Programme for employees and family.
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Employment Type:
Permanent
Time Type:
Full time
Requisition Number:
R9010 DevOps Engineer (Open)