Azure Senior DevOps Engineer

• IT Infrastructure and development support to internal analytics stakeholders
• Ensure optimal availability and performance of infrastructure components and applications
• Create and manage build pipelines in ADO, leveraging IAC (Terraform) templates
• Maintain networking between on-prem and external systems (Microsoft Fabric, Verisk, etc.)
• Act as a key internal technical resource for major change projects
• Work with 3rd party vendors to ensure service provision and project delivery meet expectations
• Act as an escalation point for complex support issues
• Support the engineering team and technical business users during scoping, design and implementation of new systems, including estimation of projects and tasks
• Produce and maintain high quality system and project documentation
• Monitor efficiency of resource utilisation of delivered systems
• Monitor incoming security threat alerts and act when required
• Provide regular feedback to Management for projects, incident management and change management, as well as defining and reporting KPIs
• Work closely with other technology teams (internal and external), tech architects and business owners to refine requirements and translate business needs into IT solutions
• Ensure there is an approach of continuous improvement and implementation of best practice
• Create a supportive and rewarding working environment that aligns with the company culture as well as instilling a sense of ownership, accountability and technical excellence in the engineering team
• Deliver long term technology effectiveness, simplicity of solutions and appropriate controls.

• Minimum 8 years' experience in a DevOps Engineer capacity essentially within a financial services environment (eg Banking or insurance)
• Experience within an Azure cloud environment as your primary cloud experience is essential, applicants with predominently cloud vendors as their primary skill set will NOT be considered
• Strong customer-oriented mindset and ability to develop and maintain stakeholder relationships
• Strong communication skills, both oral and written, with proven ability to influence change
• Ability to run and manage change processes efficiently, aligning with other teams as needed
• Strong leadership skills, an innovation mindset and experience as a proactive team player
• Take ownership of your work and responsibility for outcomes delivering key projects
• Work closely with technical leadership and peers to create product roadmaps, estimate work packages and set priorities.

Specific Technical skills:

• Strong windows OS systems administration knowledge (inc. Windows Server)
• Deep experience managing Windows domain environments at an advanced level (Active Directory, Group Policy, Certificate Service etc)
• Excellent Azure administration and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) skills
• Extensive experience working in and undertaking migrations in a heavily virtualised environment and with configuring and managing container orchestration solutions, ideally Kubernetes
• Previous experience administering and maintaining Storage Area Networks
• Basic SQL server administration including installation, access management and backups/restores
• Good general knowledge of network administration (TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS)
• Good experience with application packaging and deployment
• Previous experience working of Firewall, switch, or Router administration
• Demonstrable experience of working with an identity & access management solution (such as OneLogin, Duo, Okta, ADFS).

Whilst the organisation is pleased to offer this role hybrid (3 days per week), you will be required to initially work 5 days during your probation period. In return the organisation offer excellent benefits alongside a very generous annual discretionary bonus scheme.