DevOps Engineer
* Location: Newport
* Salary: £47,000 - £54,000 (including allowances)
* Job Type: Full-time, Permanent
* Business Area: DDaT - Technology
Are you passionate about collaborative working and problem-solving?Do you enjoy using your technical skills to help teams work more effectively, and get software into the hands of users with speed and stability?If you are looking for a role where you are treated as an individual and supported in your professional development, then this DevOps Engineer position is for you!
An excellent, exciting opportunity within a growing civil service business, the Platform Engineering group during the companies digital transformation journey. This role is perfect for someone who wants to turn innovative ideas into customer value using a range of technologies and delivery platforms.
Key Tech: Azure DevOps YAML Pipelines, Azure, Terraform, scripting, deploying to Azure Machine Learning
Day-to-Day of the Role:
* Support all aspects of the software development lifecycle, applying DevOps principles.
* Lead on developing, implementing, enhancing, and managing DevOps practices following agreed processes and best practices.
* Design, release, and implement automated, efficient delivery pipelines and manage deployments onto Production.
* Provide administration, configuration, and troubleshooting support for CI & CD pipelines and hosted container applications.
* Lead on delivery, integration, administration, and configuration of DevOps tools.
* Conduct reviews and quality checks for newly delivered code and advocate for security and performance standards.
* Implement and configure DevOps specific monitoring, alerting, auditing, and notification strategies.
* Contribute to technical decisions and directions in a collaborative team environment.
* Attend Team and Agile Scrum ceremonies.
* Promote and encourage the use of test automation and infrastructure-as-code within delivery teams.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
* Understanding of DevOps principles and experience in a DevOps or iterative development culture.
* Demonstrable experience with CI & CD tools, including pipeline implementation.
* Awareness of automated testing and embedding this in CI/CD pipelines.
* Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with experience in service support.
* Technical skills in Python, Bash, PowerShell.
* Experience with Azure DevOps Pipelines or other CI/CD orchestration tools.
* Experience in containerisation technologies and platforms such as Docker or Azure container services.
* Experience managing and supporting distributed source code repositories (Git).
* Experience of consuming cloud platform resources (Microsoft Azure preferred).
Experience supporting the build and deployment of, or coding in the following:
* Python
* .NET Core / C#
* NextJS / Node Frontend
* Experience with Infrastructure as code such as Terraform
* Experience in containerisation technologies and platforms such as Docker or Azure Container services such as Azure App Services, Azure Functions, Azure Logic Apps or Azure Container Registry
* Experience in managing and supporting distributed source code repositories (Git).
Benefits:
* A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
* Hybrid working arrangements with at least 20% of time spent onsite.
* Opportunities for professional and career development.
To apply for this DevOps Engineer position, please submit your CV to be considered immediately.