Junior Azure DevOps Engineer

Position:  Junior Azure DevOps Engineer

Suitable for: DevOps Engineer with 3+ years Azure experience

Location:  Hybrid – Home based, with the expectation to attend the Milton Keynes office at least once a month and as and when required.

Salary: £35k - £40k DOE + bens

Please note that unfortunately, our client is unable to offer sponsorship

Our client is a British healthcare software development company that build and deliver market leading applications. They are looking to expand and continue to innovate their space. They have high ambitions and are looking to bring in a Junior Azure DevOps Engineer to help continue their adoption of Azure-native services and building a best-of-breed scalable SaaS platform for their solutions.

The Junior Azure DevOps Engineer they are looking for will need to have 3+ 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.

Skills/attributes:

• Minimum of 3 years’ commercial experience with Azure ideally as Junior Azure DevOps Engineer

• An understanding of Azure PaaS components. Key areas:

o             AKS (deployment + management)

o             API Management

o             App Services

o             Azure SQL and MI

o             Functions

o             Networking

o             App Insights

o             Data Factory

o             Databricks

• Proven experience with Azure DevOps (ADO)
• Solid understanding of

o             Terraform

o             HELM

o             Flux

o             Powershell / Azure CLI

Desirable skills:

• Healthcare or Government related industry experience
• Understanding of JIRA and Confluence
• Microsoft certification(s) in Azure, such as AZ-400 (Azure DevOps Engineer)

Role and responsibilities:

Working within the existing DevOps engineering team, the Azure DevOps Engineer will have a diverse workload covering (but not limited to):

• Automation of infrastructure and software rollout using Azure DevOps pipelines, including quality gates such as approvals and code quality scanning.
• Deploy/Maintain Infrastructure, using an IaC approach
• Design and develop automated scaling and failover using deep health checks and insights
• Work closely with other departments, such as Ops and TechOps, to facilitate the smooth running of the cloud services by providing utilities/dashboards/scripts etc

• Work closely with the Security teams to analyse and help remediate on internal and SoC flagged issues, along with assisting in internal vulnerability checks/ethical hacking
• Continuous improvement and testing of DR/BCP to ensure high availability

Experience is valued over accreditation, however, as they are a Microsoft partner, there will be encouragement to gain accreditation during employment.

Full job description is available on request

To apply:  Please follow the online application process and upload your CV, in Word format

Please note: You must be eligible to work in the UK for your application to be considered (sorry, our client is unable to offer sponsorship).  Due to large numbers of applications, unfortunately we cannot provide detailed feedback to everyone, however, if you wish to find out how your application is progressing, please call or e-mail the office and someone will help you / get back to you.