Description About the Role: Next Technology is looking for Senior DevOps Engineers with extensive CI/CD Pipeline development to be aligned to great teams of developers in our Warehouse. We require an individual who has vast experience with Cloud, Ideally Microsoft Azure, and containerisation technologies (Using Docker and Kubernetes) to ensure a smooth transition from On-Premise to a Cloud Driven infrastructure. Why Next Technology? We work closely with our Development Domains and Business users to ensure they have the right tools to get our Products to the market as quickly and efficiently as possible, allowing the business growth NEXT has seen over the last few years. We never standstill, we are constantly looking to evolve our technology, our applications and the services we offer our stakeholders. We really are a group of people who love technology, pushing boundaries and answering the what-ifs! Working with us would mean exposure to new technologies and ways of working, getting involved in forcing through change and ultimately providing our customers with a better service. Like all departments, we also have challenges with some legacy applications and ‘older’ code languages but who doesn’t love a good challenge? We can promise an environment that is never dull with the freedom and support to express yourself to come up with new initiatives. If you want to suggest a new way of working, an improvement to an application or try a new technology…go for it! We run a lean operation in a quick paced environment, so we need our people to be able to work efficiently, accurately and well under pressure. We expect the right individual to have excellent communication skills, being able to work in a team, be involved in open discussion, communicate ideas, inclusion and diversity. Having strong analytical and problem-solving skills will be advantageous especially as the person in this role will be driving forward the new technologies and approach in Next Technology. What will the Senior DevOps Engineer do? Automate the creation & deployment of Development, Test, PreProduction and Production environments Automate testing of applications/services and integrate with build process Maintain and govern all test environments to ensure consistency of software and codebase. Management of Warehouse Systems application Source Code, including ensuring that branching strategies are followed Create and maintain data refresh processes and scripts ensuring that sensitive data is kept secure and anonymised Use monitoring tools for Applications, Servers & Services diagnostics Assist Dev teams with performance and volume testing Setting up nuget/npm repositories Setting up web servers (IIS, Node.js) Identify departmental processes that where possible can be streamlined or automated Create and maintain documentation detailing environments Provide knowledge on Cloud environment setup, connectivity, server configuration and guide the Project teams in using the environments in the most efficient manner Work alongside both internal and external Auditing and Security teams in order to maintain security of all environments and data. About you: Technical requirements: IaC Terraform Azure DevOps, Artifacts, Boards, CI/CD pipelines (YAML), Repositories Awareness of DevOps concepts, best practices and Agile principles Azure cloud infrastructure Knowledge of on premise to cloud offering migrations Microsoft .NET Framework, .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, C#, Node.js, REACT PowerShell and Bash scripting Networking skills/fundamentals? SQL Server / NoSQL databases Windows & Linux servers Source Control Management (Git) Docker containers Kubernetes Microservices SonarCloud / Crowdstrike Docker Compose / Helm charts DevSecOps Tooling LI-LE1LI-Hybrid