Senior Azure Infrastructure DevOps Engineer

Job Description

Role Introduction The Senior Azure Infrastructure DevOps Engineer role provides delivery and support of the Infrastructure within Microsoft Azure cloud environments for Advanced Managed Services customers. This exciting role requires an innovative individual taking currentknowledge and previous experience to deploy new solutions together with supporting and improving existing environments.There will be a strong focus on DevOps, including,· Developing version-controlled Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform.· Building, supporting and running YAML deployment pipelines.· Conducting pull requests and contributing to peer reviews of engineers code.Communication and collaboration are paramount in this role, you will work closely with a variety of internal and external business stakeholders and will be continually engaged and collaborating with our clients.This role can be home based on in one of our UK Offices What You Will Do Work with the business stakeholders to maintain and continually improve Managed Services client environments hosted in Azure:· Input into and deployment of designed Infrastructure services across the Azure stack via Terraform IaC, if applicable to that client.· Identify and implement innovation opportunities within existing infrastructure.· Automate deployments.· Contribute towards improving automation and scripting of tasks.· Completion of system documentation and service take on.Provide 3rd line support on Azure IaaS/PaaS services and Azure Networking issues. This requires:· Root cause investigation, reporting to senior management with a prevention plan.· Resolution of incidents in line with contractual timescales.Collaborate on creation and improvement of Infrastructure-as-Code deployments:· Identify and implement innovation opportunities within existing infrastructure.· Automate deployments.· Contribute towards improving automation and scripting of tasks.· Perform proactive maintenance upon customer systems.The nature of the role requires mandatory participation in flexible working:· On call 24x7 support rota, providing an escalation path to the Service Desk. (1 in 4 weeks expected, additional payment for on-call).· Out of Hours changes on Production systems, if required. (overtime paid for agreed out of hours work).Participate in continual improvement processes, modelled around meeting ISO standards:· Change control, with peer change review.· Quality driven; work planned with minimal disruption to users.· Incident investigation.Assist with ad-hoc tasks as required to support wider business plans and initiatives. What You Will Have

• A desire for success and operational excellence to deploy solutions based on best practice.
• A keen thirst for knowledge, be constantly keeping abreast of the latest technologies and continually considering how they can be utilised to provide a first class solution.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written, being able to operate at all levels and articulate messages to a variety of different audiences. Understand people and cultural differences to build good relationships with colleagues and Customers.
• Capability to author and update design, support and procedural documentation as well as provide input into project design and concepts.
• Keen willingness to mentor and support others in the team.
• The ability to multi-task, keep accurate logs and provide reports on progress.
• Capability to project manage in an informal capacity; able to apply appropriate project methodology to plan, execute and report on work in a structured way.
• Ability to obtain and maintain UK Government Security Check (SC).

Essential skills to be considered for the role:

• Developing version-controlled Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with raw Terraform to be able to deploy and update Azure infrastructure environments and resource.
• Significant experience with managing Azure environments.
• Significant experience with Azure networking. Including: VNETS / VNET peering / VPN Gateways / Azure Firewalls / Azure Routing / Azure Load Balancers / Application Gateways / ExpressRoute / Virtual WAN
• Experience with running production systems, triaging and solving outages involving Azure Infrastructure resources
• Highly confident in Cloud Architecture.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills, diagnose system and service faults and undertake problem analysis.

Experience of the following technologies is highly desirable:

• Familiarity / Experience using the Terraform CAF Supermodules for Azure.
• Windows Server experience.

What We Do For You Wellbeing focussed – Our people are our greatest assets, and ensuring everyone feels their best self to come to work is integral

• Generous Annual Leave – 25 days of annual leave, plus public holidays and the ability to buy additional days
• Employee Assistance Programme– Free advice, support, and confidential counselling available 24/7 through Care First

Personal Growth - Regardless of where you are at in your career, we’re committed to enabling your growth personally and professionally

• Development Programmes – From Future Managers to Leadership Training, our development programmes help you get where you need to go
• Profit Share – Our Group-wide bonus scheme enables you to reap the rewards of your success

Financial wellbeing - We understand as well as your mental wellbeing, your financial wellbeing is really important Pension Scheme– Our plan with Scottish Widows of