DevOps /Cloud Engineer

• Up to £60k base  plus benefits
• Hybrid, Bracknell

A brief description of the main purpose of the role

The DevOps role is responsible for the availability, performance and scalability of infrastructure services (network, servers, applications, security and capacity) used in the deployment of multiple applications. You will be tasked with driving consistency and ease of deployment through automation on multiple cloud platforms and regions, working closely with Software Development teams. Key areas will include CI/CD pipelines, automated provisioning of environments, infrastructure as code, integration with source control and the observability of applications.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

3-5 major areas of responsibility with a brief description of the expected activities

Automation

• Facilitating the transition from traditional web applications and services to container-based alternatives with an end-goal of moving to a fully orchestrated environment.
• Working closely with members of the development teams to deploy containers quickly and efficiently and own the deployment standards to provide a consistent and scalable solution.
• Coordinating and improving automated test suites and frameworks.

Continuous Improvement

• Responsible for the maintenance and optimisation of our CI Pipeline (GitLab CI/CD, Harbor, Puppet).
• Developing/documenting tools and processes to drive and improve customer experience.
• Working closely with members of the development, operations, security, provisioning, NOC and support teams to ensure a stable transition from development to staging and production.

Infrastructure support

• Maintaining systems and tooling responsible for continuous delivery
• Preparing technical handovers to rest of our teams in Operations and Support.
• Investigate, diagnose and remediate operational issues or escalated customer tickets.
• Automate routine manual tasks to increase engineering time on high value work