DevOps Engineer (Azure)

Responsibilities:

• Ensure that our applications and environments are stable, scalable, secure, and performing as expected.
• Proactively engage and work in alignment with cross-functional colleagues to understand their requirements, contributing to and providing suitable supporting solutions.
• Develop and introduce systems to aid and facilitate rapid growth, including implementation of deployment policies, designing and implementing new procedures, configuration management, and planning of patches and capacity upgrades.
• Observability: ensure suitable levels of monitoring and alerting are in place to keep engineers aware of issues.
• Establish runbooks and procedures to keep outages to a minimum.
• Jump in before users notice that things are off track, then automate it for the future.
• Automate everything so that nothing is ever done manually in production.
• Identify and mitigate reliability and security risks.
• Make sure we are prepared for peak times, DDoS attacks, and fat fingers.
• Troubleshoot issues across the whole stack: software, applications, and network.
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables as part of a self-organising team.
• Learn and unlearn every day by exchanging knowledge and new insights, conducting constructive code reviews, and participating in retrospectives.