Azure Senior DevOps Engineer

Azure Senior DevOps Engineer

City of London (hybrid)

£110,000 - £130,000 per annum + annual discretionary bonus

On behalf of a fast growing insurance business, I am seeking an experienced Azure Senior DevOps Engineer to play a key role within the Analytics Development team. You will design and implement tooling for deploying and managing reliable and scalable applications spanning on-premises and cloud hosts, operating in a largely Microsoft tech stack environment. applicants with alternative cloud experience as their primary skill set will NOT be considered.

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.

Responsibilities:

• 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.

Experience/skills required:

• 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).