Principal DevOps Engineer Virtual - Milton Keynes United Kingdom

About Us

WorkForce Software an ADP Company is the first global provider of workforce management solutions with integrated employee experience capabilities. The companys WorkForce Suite adapts to each organizations needsno matter how unique their pay rules labor regulations and scheduleswhile delivering a breakthrough employee experience at the time and place work happens. Enterprisegrade and futureready WorkForce Software is helping some of the worlds most innovative organizations optimize their workforce protect against compliance risks and increase employee engagement to unlock new potential for resiliency and performance. Whether your employees are deskless or office workers unionized fulltime parttime or seasonal WorkForce Software makes managing your global workforce easy less costly and more rewarding for everyone.

Over one thousand organizations with more than 4 million users in over 100 countries rely on WorkForce Software solutions to streamline compliance reduce labor costs provide more intuitive tools to their employees and achieve strategic HR on a global basis.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement the strategic vision for DevOps practices across the organization.
• Lead the design and architecture of complex CI/CD pipelines for largescale applications.
• Oversee the automation of infrastructure provisioning configuration and deployment.
• Ensure the reliability scalability and security of all systems and applications.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to DevOps engineers and other team members.
• Collaborate with senior leadership across all organizations to align DevOps strategies with business goals.
• Drive the adoption of best practices in IaC (Infrastructure as Code) and continuous deployment.
• Implement advanced monitoring logging and alerting systems to ensure system health.
• Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure for performance and costefficiency.
• Lead incident response and postmortem analysis to improve system reliability.
• Lead Agile Scrum meetings and activities

Requirements

On your first day well expect you to have:

• 6 years of experience in DevOps or related roles.
• Experience with scripting languages: Bash Python Powershell
• Experience with Infrastructure as code technologies like Chef Terraform or similar technologies
• Experience operating software in cloud environments preferably OCI
• Experience with container technologies & ecosystem like Docker Kubernetes
• Experience operating and developing CI/CD tooling like Jenkins Rundeck ArgoCD
• Experience with log aggregation tools like ELK (Elastic Kibana)
• Experience with monitoring software like Dynatrace New Relic Prometheus
• Experience with secret management tools such as Hashicorp Vault/Consul
• Ability to diagnose and troubleshoot system issues in a Unix/Linux environment
• Experience identifying and monitoring application metrics
• Experience identifying and remediating common security issues
• Knowledge of common security controls and best practices
• Experience working within version control technologies like GIT
• Experience reviewing and giving feedback on code developed by peers
• A passion for learning and sharing knowledge and experience
• Excellent problemsolving skills
• Great teamworking skills and ability to work as part of a crossfunctional team
• Great organizational skills and ability to manage own workload
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong experience building enterpriselevel software

Desired Skills

• The ideal candidate will have previous experience in a DevOps or site reliability role and will have a background as a Software Engineer who has developed more Operator skills becoming a DevOps Engineer.
  • Experience developing enterprise software with technologies like Java PHP JavaScript
  • Experience working in a collaborative Agile engineering team
  • Experience working with a microservices architecture
  • Experience with incident response

Education

• Bachelors or advanced degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience

This job description is not intended to be all inclusive and employee will perform other reasonably related business duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor and other management as required.

To maintain our goal of remaining a diverse and inclusive company WorkForce Software advocates for and promotes a diverse equitable safe and professional workplace where all people feel welcomed and empowered. We are committed to creating an environment that supports and celebrates the full range of our individual and collective differences so that everyone can do their best and most innovative work on the job and in our communities.

WorkForce Software is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment WorkForce Software will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process to perform essential job functions and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment please contact our Talent Acquisition Department at .

WorkForce Software is an Equal Opportunity Employer.