Location: 100% remote with office visits a couple of times per month (Leeds)

Employment Type: fulltime, permanent

Salary: up to £70,000 basic + benefits


Job Description

We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to help with our client’s Agile/DevOps transformation programme. You will bring your expertise of cloud-based technologies to the business and play an important role in helping them to move to a modern cloud-based architecture with a true DevOps mindset.


Responsibilities

• Build/release our existing management toolset and modernise it to a high performing, automated, CI/CD pipeline(s) as we look to drive quality, stability and performance of our transactional websites while also shortening release cycles and enabling to deliver better value to customers more quickly.
Furthermore:
• Help shape future tech state and influence implements new technologies such as Docker, OpenShift, AKS, Node.js, GraphQL and Ansible
• Work closely with Agile Scrum teams to implement Agile/DevOps best practices throughout the whole SDLC
• Work with SREs to help monitor, troubleshoot, and fix any performance and reliability issues with Live websites
• Help to rollout the Agile/DevOps way of working to other parts of the stack such as ERP and all associated integrations
• Implement migration from on-prem to cloud-based (Azure) solutions



Requirements

• Solid technical experience of building and deploying applications using tools such as Git, Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, WCBD, Maven and Ant. Ideally, within a Java Enterprise environment.
• In-depth knowledge of Agile, DevOps and CI/CD best practices
• Practical experience of working in a Unix/Linux environment including system administration and scripting – bash, python/python, Perl, yaml and awk
• Deployment/configuration experience with Java application servers both on-prem and in the cloud (Experience on either IBM WebSphere or Oracle WebLogic is highly sought)
• Knowledge of DevOps, infrastructure as a code and provisioning tools such as Ansible and Terraform
• Ability solves complex technical problems and find solutions that drive business and customer value
• Great communication skills and can use them to build solid relationships with all levels of the business