Lead Azure DevOps Engineer - Cardiff, United Kingdom - CPS Group

CPS Group

Verified Company

Cardiff, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

THE ROLE

Reporting to the Head of Cloud Infrastructure, the DevOps Lead Engineer will join a dynamic, fastpaced and highly skilled team working to maintain and improve their cloud services to support their growing product and customer base.

You will play a critical role partnering with Product, Development, and QA teams to deliver SaaS solutions to the world.

You should have a passion for DevOps, Cloud Architecture and Infrastructureas-Code, and a desire to pursue excellence.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND EXPECTATIONS

Ensure cloud solutions are secure, scalable, resilient, monitored, auditable and costoptimised. Continually evaluate existing infrastructure to identify risks or opportunities for improvement
Ownership of InfrastructureasCode (IaC). Drive the future approach, design and development of IaC deployments
Own build, test and deploy using CI/CD with Azure DevOps pipelines
Contribute to the definition and development of companywide Infrastructure Architecture
Contribute to estimation and scheduling of DevOps and Operational scope
Troubleshoot and rectify problems in their services and deployed systems
Quickly and safely build & deploy, effortlessly recover systems in case something goes wrong, and multiply the productivity of a team with tools
Manage automation, monitoring tools, and developing tools to improve efficiency, keeping systems secure, adhering to security compliance, and abstracting complexity
Define and implement procedures to achieve operational excellence and adhere to security compliance requirements
Implement Cloud and DevOps industry best practices and tooling. Stay abreast of the evolving landscape and evaluate new technologies to make substantiated recommendations for improvement
Run DevOps team daily standups and provide team coaching
Participate in afterhours upgrades and troubleshooting activities, as required
Is part of oncall support roster.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
Required

Relevant experience in a Developer or DevOps role
Handson experience working with cloud infrastructure and services (Azure preferred)
Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines and tools (Azure DevOps preferred)
Experience with IaC tools (Pulumi preferred, Terraform, Bicep or ARM also useful)
Experience with Containers & Container Orchestration (Kubernetes)
Experience with at least one scripting language
Git repository and release management experience
Knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle and experience working in Production environments
Experience with configuration management tools
Excellent and demonstrable organisational and planning skills
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Able to handle sensitive information and maintain confidentiality
Able to demonstrate a high level of professionalism
Able to multitask and manage changing priorities
Ability to problem solve and come up with creative solutions.

Desired