Senior DevOps Engineer

This is a remote position.

• Responsible for designing, building, and optimising the automation processes for provisioning infrastructure and applications – via infrastructure-as-code (IaC)
  
• Standardise and streamline build and release pipelines – CICD
  
• Configure and administer platforms and services
  
• Support operational activities by ensuring platforms and infrastructure for pipelines are optimal, recoverable, and easily scalable to meet the capacity demands
  
• Provide incident management oversight – root cause analysis, stakeholder communications, post-mortems, and manage preventative measures and resolutions
  
• Actively involved in regular deployments of platform and pipeline artefacts to ensure frequent and incremental value delivery while avoiding unnecessary accumulation of technical or operational debt
  
• Ensure security, high availability, and disaster recovery are always front of mind
  
• Continuous monitoring of cost and risk – to reduce and mitigate
  
• Ensure production and non-production environments stay in sync through the alignment of stable standards, code, and configurations
  
• Identify relevant emerging trends and build compelling cases for adoption, e.g., tool selection
  
• Involved in PoCs, prototypes, and innovation spikes to seek directional outcomes
  
• Engage with peer reviews of your code, and peer review other engineers’ code
  
• Help define and champion strategies and best practices to support best-in-class engineering practices and operational efficiency for all services
  
• Mentor and support other engineers, helping to grow our collaborative environment
  
• Identify and assess risk, reliability, and/or uncertainty in the design, system, or process, including the impact of change
  

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in a similar role is essential
  
• Proficient with CICD toolchains (e.g., Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Git, Artefactory, etc.)
  
• Proficient in one or more scripting languages for automation (e.g., Linux Bash, PowerShell, Python)
  
• Proficient in provisioning platforms via IaC techniques (e.g., Terraform, YAML, Azure Resource Manager (ARM))
  
• Working experience configuring, securing, and administering platforms in Azure; knowledge in Cloud infrastructure and networking principles (e.g., Azure PaaS, IaaS)
  
• Demonstrable knowledge of working with distributed data platforms (e.g., Azure ADLS, Data Lakes)
  
• Experience working with vulnerability management and code-inspection tooling (e.g., Snyk, SonarQube)
  
• Possess an “automation-first” mindset when building solutions; considerations for self-healing and fault-tolerant methods to minimize manual intervention and downtime
  
• Ability to work autonomously in an environment of constant change.
  
• Experience building/maintaining an API-led event-driven architecture, e.g., using Azure Event Grid, Azure Functions, is desirable
  
• Cluster image container management (e.g., Azure Container Registry) is desirable
  
• Good understanding of network configuration – DNS, Routing, VPN, Firewalls, Endpoint management is desirable
  
• Experience in including vulnerability management within the deployment pipelines, for package dependencies and containers, is desirable
  
• Experience in implementing custom Data Observability, capturing telemetry to understand the health of data and pipelines better, is desirable
  
• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure DevOps is desirable