DevOps Engineer - Azure

DevOps Engineer

Location: Remote
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £60,000This role involves contributing to the design, implementation, and management of infrastructure and deployment environments across both on-premises and Azure cloud platforms. You will play a crucial role in building and maintaining automated deployment pipelines, supporting the stability, scalability, and performance of environments, and promoting DevOps best practices across teams.

Day-to-day of the role:

Infrastructure Management: Configure and manage deployment environments across on-premises infrastructure and Azure cloud platforms, ensuring reliability and performance.
Environment Architecture: Design scalable, secure, and reliable environments for application hosting, ensuring high availability and optimal performance for business-critical applications.
Deployment Automation: Develop and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines to support automated application deployment and configuration management using Azure DevOps.
On-Premise and Cloud Integration: Manage hybrid environments, ensuring seamless integration between on-premises and cloud infrastructure.
Configuration Management: Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using tools such as Bicep, Terraform, and ARM templates to standardise and automate infrastructure provisioning.
Security and Compliance: Enforce security and compliance standards using tools like Azure Policy, ensuring environments are patched, monitored, and aligned with regulatory requirements.
Monitoring and Incident Response: Establish monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to track environment health and lead incident response and resolution for infrastructure and deployment issues.
Collaboration: Work with stakeholders across the department to support application releases and troubleshoot environment-related issues.
Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation for infrastructure configurations, deployment processes, and environment management practices.Required Skills & Qualifications:

Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a proven track record of working across teams.
Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar role, managing environments in Azure. On-premise environment management experience is desirable.
Strong expertise in managing and optimising Azure-based infrastructure and services.
Experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Azure DevOps.
Strong knowledge of infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Bicep, Terraform, ARM templates, or PowerShell DSC.
Experience in security best practices for on-premises and cloud environments.
Familiarity with monitoring tools like Azure Monitor, Application Insights, or similar solutions.
Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex environment issues.
Experience with scripting languages such as PowerShell or Python.
Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.

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