Senior DevOps Engineer - Azure

Job title : Senior DevOps Engineer - Azure
Location : London
Job type : Permanent
Salary : £75000 - £85000 per annum
Sector : Insurance
Reference : BHJOB6067_17545
Senior DevOps Engineer – Azure
£75,000 - £85,000
London  
 
A Senior DevOps Engineer required to join a Lloyds Insurance firm in the City of London on a permanent basis. Joining a growing dynamic team, you will help embark on a digital transformation journey automating and streamlining operations as well as further development processes. You will be a key part of the team, as you are required to drive the transformation forward using the latest technology in doing so.
 
Key responsibilities:
  • Work to automate our on-premises infrastructure and where possible move systems to the cloud with an end goal of having an orchestrated infrastructure as code architecture that is secure, scalable and cloud agnostic
  • Work within a small and motivated DevOps team to support the wider IT teams and business units
  • Add, improve and maintain the Terraform, PowerShell, Ansible and DSC source code as well as our Azure DevOps pipelines
  • Be an active participant on our scrum team
  • Work alongside the security team to ensure that the best practices are being followed with cloud networking fundamentals
  • Create custom virtual machine (VM) images for both VMware and Azure using Packer
  • Collaborate with other IT teams to plan and execute system changes
Required Skills:
  • Good analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Strong communication and organization skills
  • Experience in building both IaaS and PaaS platforms using Terraform
  • Experience in Azure Cloud Services and Azure DevOps - CI/CD pipelines
  • Able to custom VM images using Packer
  • Experience with scripting languages (Bash, PowerShell etc.)
  • Experience with configuration management (Ansible, PowerShell DSC etc.)
  • Experience with end-to-end testing leveraging automation including load testing
  • Containerization – Docker Swarm and/or Kubernetes
  • Knowledge of Log Analytics, Microsoft Security Center and Sentinel would be an advantage
  • Experience in designing and architecting complex environments and the Software Development Lifecycle methodology
  • Understanding of SecOps methodologies
  • Proven and demonstrable experience in participating in a highly effective scrum team
  • Dedicated to making a difference in a rapid-paced environment
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team, whilst acting as a mentor to more junior members of the team


Cornwallis Elt is an Employment Agency & Employment Business and has been listed 3 times in The Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track 100 of the UK`s fastest growing private companies, as well as in the Recruitment International Top 250, Top 50 in IT and the Recruiter Fast 50 & Hot 100 reports.