What will be your role and responsibilities?

• Participate in code reviews
• Define and enforce code quality
• Take an active part in all regular Scrum ceremonies
• Contribute to the refinement of user stories (user stories at the beginning of a development sprint might not be fully specified)
• Liaise with stakeholders and team members
• Pro-active knowledge sharing, mentoring, and coaching of members from the same or other teams
• Clarify open points possibly making proposals and/or developing a prototype for further discussion
• Provide support for existing solutions
• Ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of the CI/CD pipelines
• Implement infrastructure provisioning and configuration in a declarative and version-controlled manner
• Integrate containerized applications into the DevOps pipeline and manage container-based deployments
• Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD)
• Design and implement robust CI/CD pipelines to automate the build, test, and deployment processes

Advantageous skills requirements:

• Automation and Scripting
• Develop scripts and automation tools using PowerShell, Bash, and Python to streamline DevOps tasks
• Automate various aspects of the DevOps lifecycle, including provisioning, testing, and deployment

Monitoring and Observability:

• Implement monitoring and observability solutions
• Analyze performance metrics and logs to identify and resolve issues in the DevOps pipeline and cloud infrastructure

Security and Compliance:

• Ensure the security and compliance of the DevOps pipeline and cloud infrastructure
• Implement access controls, manage secrets and credentials, and enforce security best practices

Collaboration and Communication:

• Effectively communicate and collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, operations, and business stakeholders

Other:

• Experience of working with SQL or NoSQL databases
• Methodologies AGILE or SCRUM

Understanding of:

• Cloud computing technologies, business drivers, and emerging computing trends
• Authentication concepts & patterns, such as Active Directory Domain Services (Kerberos, LDAP, etc.) and as well as Federation, OAuth, and another web-based authentication

Minimum Requirements

• Any additional responsibilities assigned in the Agile Working Model (AWM) Charter
• Strong development background with a particular focus on dotnet, angular, and python

Azure Platform Expertise

• Deep understanding of the Azure cloud services, including Virtual Machines, AKS, Storage, Networking, and other core Azure offerings
• Ability to architect and deploy complex Azure-based infrastructure and applications

DevOps Toolchain Management

• Proficient in using and configuring GitHub, Terraform, and other DevOps tools

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Expertise in using Terraform to provision and manage cloud infrastructure

Containerisation and Orchestration

• Expertise in containerisation technologies, such as Docker, and container orchestration platforms, such as Kubernetes
• Familiarity with Microservices Architecture, Cloud Architecture, and Container Architecture