Lead DevOps Engineer

Lead DevOps Engineer (Cloud solutions & Automation)

Barbican & Epsom Hybrid (One office day a week) Permanent Full-Time

Competitive salary available depending on experience

37.5 hours per week

At Nuffield Health everything we give our patients members and customers would not be possible without you. Your passion your warmth your drive to make a difference. Whether its driving connecting health helping the nation transforming experiences or building the career you want we give you the support to do it all. Join our journey. It starts with you.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly skilled Lead DevOps/Automation Engineer. The ideal candidate will have previous experience in leading a team of DevOps Engineers and demonstrate technical expertise in working with cloud Infrastructure and services implementing CI/CD pipelines and the effective operation and reliability of business-critical production systems using monitoring and alerting tools.

This role also provides the opportunity to shape our Cloud and Automation standards from platforms and services through to tooling and processes youll be able to define what good looks like and work with cross-functional teams to make it happen developing their capability along the way.

To be successful I this role you should demonstrate that you have:

• The ambition for creating and nurturing a culture of DevOps across a Technology organisation; working with existing infrastructure and Software Engineering teams to define new practices and evolve ways of working.

• Experience with the various forms of Cloud infrastructure hosting and services e.g. IaaS PaaS Serverless computing and all-in-one cloud-based solutions. (Were currently hosting some of our applications on Azure and Heroku but are not against exploring other options that improve our delivery and efficiency)

• Experience working with infrastructure-as-code configuration and automation tools such Terraform and Ansible to provision and manage Cloud infrastructure and automate software delivery processes. Experience with Cloud platform equivalents would be an advantage.

• Previously designed implemented and maintained CI/CD pipelines that automate the building testing and releasing of software; using tools such as Jenkins Sonarqube Azure DevOps Github actions or similar.

• Working knowledge of containerisation and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes ideally running on Azure (AKS).

• Experience integrating and configuring various logging monitoring and alerting tools (e.g. Splunk New Relic) that provide operational insight into the health of live applications and systems.

• Experience in applying a range of cloud security tools and techniques (e.g. threat modelling vulnerability scanning dependency checking reducing attack surface area) ideally incorporating these tools and techniques into automated pipelines.

• The desire to upskill and enable product engineering squads to operate and maintain the infrastructure services and CI/CD pipelines that power their applications and systems.

• Extensive experience in the administration of Linux Operating Systems within large corporate environments.

• Previously led teams of multi-skilled DevOps/Automation Engineers and mentored individuals at various levels from Associate through to Senior.

• Worked within product engineering teams and in close collaboration with other roles including Product Owners Architects Designers QA and Delivery.

This role will provide you with the opportunity to:

• Grow a DevOps/Automation function across our Engineering organisation building on existing capabilities and standardising our approach going forward.

• Define and evolve our technology-wide Cloud and Automation strategy ensuring that engineering squads adopt and maintain best practices going forward.

• Working closely with cross-functional product teams to design and implement appropriate cloud native solutions codifying the infrastructure configuration and CI/CD pipelines to automate processes and improve efficiency.

• Work across a wide variety of interesting and challenging systems covering different aspects of fitness wellbeing and health care.

• Opportunities to learn and develop your career while staying close to your engineering roots.

• An environment that allows you to perform at your best work working collaboratively with like-minded colleagues who are focused on improving the health of our nation and making a real difference to peoples everyday lives

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work feeling healthy happy and valued. Thats why weve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here you can choose from a range of fitness lifestyle health and fitness wellbeing rewards such as free gym membership health assessments retail discounts and pension options.

At Nuffield Health we take care of whats important to you.

If you like what you see why not start your application now We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So its a good idea to apply right away to ensure youre considered for this role.

Apply today It starts with you.