DevOps Engineer Manager

IsoMetrix is a leading integrated risk management software company with offices in the USA Canada Australia United Kingdom and South Africa. We provide state-of-the-art solutions for ESG EHS and GRC management.

Backed by the leading private equity firm Carlyle an investment firm with $293bn of assets under management SaaS-oriented business model. Crucial to the future success of the business.

We are looking for a candidate with suitable qualifications and experience to join our dynamic and passionate team in an IT development environment.

Main Purpose:

Build test and maintain the infrastructure and tools to allow for quick development and release of software.

Primary Responsibilities:

DevOps

• Building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure
• Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers
• Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes
• Testing and examining code written by others and analyzing results
• Identifying technical problems and developing software updates and fixes
• Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
• Planning out projects and being involved in project management decisions
• Strong focus on automation and platform engineering

IT Support

• Manage design plan and support physical and virtual environments including Azure tenants for best performance and security through DevOps practices
• DevOps architectural practices including Infrastructure as a code management and deployment
• Brainstorm new ideas and ways to improve automated infrastructure implementations
• IT procurement and sustainable asset management
• Customer engagements and RFP document population
• Follow all best practices and procedures as established by company

IT Strategy

• ISO 27 001 accreditation support including ongoing compliance.
• Adequate disaster recovery strategy including backup strategy and successful execution.
• Stay current with Microsoft Partner requirements and liaise with Microsoft Account Manager maintaining sustainable relationships.
• Partner certification requirements are met and communicated to management.
• Information Systems adoption strategy.

Minimum Experience and Educational Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science engineering software engineering or related field.
• Microsoft Azure Certification AZ-400.
• Five years previous experience in development and operations or related IT computer or operations field.
• Three years previous experience with the following Microsoft Azure infrastructure services:
• Azure SQL

• Cosmos DB
• Azure Application Services
• Monitoring Application Insights and reporting
• Kubernetes AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) and container orchestration platforms and applications
• Azure PowerShell
• Azure Front Door and load balancers

• Identity and Authentication SSO/Federation AD/Azure AD Azure Key Vault

• Azure Storage
• Azure Redis Cache
• Previous experience with software development (C# Web development JavaScript) infrastructure development or development and operations.
• Experience of working with distributed microservices application architectures patterns and deployment frameworks/topologies.
• Experience maturing site reliability observability and reducing MTTD MTTR RPO RTO etc.
• Experience with Windows Server infrastructures IIS Azure App Service MS SQL CI/CD tools scripting such as JavaScript PowerShell and Agile workflow methodologies.
• Up to date on latest industry trends able to articulate trends and potential clearly and confidently.
• Good interpersonal skills and communication with all levels of management.

Additional Requirements

• Azure Certified Developer Associate.
• Azure Certified Administrator Associate.

Personal Attributes

• Excellent teamworking and communication skills.
• Knowledge of programming languages.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Good attention to detail.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills and the ability to work on multiple projects at the same time.
• Solid command of DevOps and Agile principles.

The Isometrix DNA encompasses the following core values and behaviours:

• Own It!
• Do the right thing
• Embrace Ideas
• Win together
• Think Beyond