Job Description
Reporting To: DevOps Manager
Location: Milton Keynes/Home based
We are a British healthcare software development company that build and deliver market leading applications in the integrated care record and population health sector. Following recent successes of our solutions, we’re looking to expand and continue to innovate in our space.
We have high ambitions and looking to bring in highly skilled individuals to help continue our adoption of Azure-native services and building a best-of-breed scalable SaaS platform for our solutions.The person we are looking for will need to have 5+ 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.
Working collaboratively with the existing DevOps engineering team alongside the lead DevOps Architect, the individual will have an influence and diverse workload covering (but not limited to):
- Design Automation of infrastructure and software rollout using Azure DevOps pipelines, including quality gates such as peer reviews.
- Design and develop Infrastructure, using an IaC approach, that aligns with industry best practices such as the Azure Well-Architected Framework.
- Design and develop automatic scaling and highly-available solutions.
- Work closely with other departments, such as Development and Architecture, to ensure that Azure technologies are being used correctly and efficiently.
- Work closely with the Security teams to design secure solutions from the get-go and assist with validating designs against best practices.
- Keeping up to date with emerging technologies and advising on how they could be used to better the existing architecture (this will likely include completing a PoC).
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
- Strong documentation and diagramming skills to convey complex concepts in a simple manner.
- An understanding of Azure PaaS components. Key areas:
- AKS (deployment + management)
- API Management
- App Services
- Azure SQL
- Functions
- Networking
- App Insights
- Data Factory
- Databricks
- Proven experience with Azure DevOps (ADO)
- Solid understanding of:
- Terraform
- HELM charts
- 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-305 (Azure Solutions Architect)
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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