DevOps Lead Engineer

Job Description

• As a member of the Platform Development team, build the tools that evolve our Azure cloud infrastructure in a safe, reliable, automated and cost-effective manner enabling our proprietary technology development teams to have the best possible development experience.
• Provide expertise and input in to the design and implementation of IaC automation to serve the needs of our application hosting, with particular focus on consistency, security and developer enablement
• Participate in planning efforts with stakeholders and IT department
• Help define and enforce security guidelines for engineering work
• On failure events, work on fixing the issues and communicating with senior members of the team
• Work as part of a small team and successfully manage your own tasks according to the larger needs of the business

Requirements

Skills & Ability

• Good understanding of database concepts and management
• Experience with containers (Kubernetes) / service mesh / orchestration is a plus
• Good understanding of Azure Platform Engineering, especially in relation to automation and yaml pipelines
• Excellent understanding of DevOps-centric concepts
• Good general infrastructure knowledge, including networking basics
• Good general development skills

Knowledge & Experience

• Min 6+ Years
• Enterprise experience of Azure
• Excellent understanding of SDLC best practises
• Excellent understanding of Infrastructure as Code / Desired State Configuration (Terraform, Ansible, etc)
• Advanced level of experience using command line/scripting tools such as Azure CLI, Bash and Powershell