Junior Azure DevOps Engineer
Milton Keynes
Vacancy No: LH10637
Junior Azure DevOps Engineer
Salary: £35,000 - £40,000 doe per annum
Location: Hybrid role, home based / Milton Keynes, travel to MK once per month + as and when required.
Applications are welcomed from candidates who have 3+ years enterprise experience with Azure, who can demonstrate a real passion for cloud technologies, with strong problem solving and critical thinking, good communication skills and a strong work ethic.
Excellent opportunity to work for a British healthcare software development company that has recently been awarded "Outstanding" by Best Companies, earning a top 100 spot in the mid-sized companies’ category, amongst other accolades.
They have high ambitions and are looking to bring in highly skilled individuals to help continue the adoption of Azure-native services and building a best-of-breed scalable SaaS platform for their solutions.
Overview:
Working within the existing DevOps engineering team, the individual will have a diverse workload covering (but not limited to):
Automation of infrastructure and software rollout using Azure DevOps pipelines, including quality gates such as approvals and code quality scanning.
Deploy/Maintain Infrastructure, using an IaC approach
Design and develop automated scaling and failover using deep health checks and insights
Work closely with other departments, such as Ops and TechOps, to facilitate the smooth running of the cloud services by providing utilities/dashboards/scripts etc
Work closely with the Security teams to analyse and help remediate on internal and SoC flagged issues, along with assisting in internal vulnerability checks/ethical hacking
Continuous improvement and testing of DR/BCP to ensure high availability
Personal Attributes :
• Able to work well as an individual and as part of a team
• Take part in architectural discussions with technical / non-technical team members
• Able to self-manage and self-motivate
• An eye for detail and a desire to adhere to best practices
• Strong inter-personal and communication skills
• Able to work under pressure
• Have a desire to keep up with the latest tools and techniques
Experience & Skills:
An understanding of Azure PaaS components. Key areas:
AKS (deployment + management)
API Management
App Services
Azure SQL and MI
Functions
Networking
App Insights
Data Factory
Databricks
Proven experience with Azure DevOps [ASO]
Solid understanding of
Terraform
HELM
Flux
PowerShell / Azure CLI
Advantageous:
• Healthcare or Government related industry experience
• Understanding of JIRA and Confluence
Qualifications:
• Microsoft certification(s) in Azure, such as AZ-400 (Azure DevOps Engineer)
Experience is valued over accreditation, however, as we’re a Microsoft partner, there will be encouragement to gain accreditation during employment.
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