DevOps Engineer

Permanent

London (hybrid)

Collinson Group is a global leader in driving loyalty and engagement for many of the worlds largest companies. Predominantly through the provision of travel related benefits within a market leading digital travel ecosystem. The group offers a unique blend of industry and sector specialists who together provide marketleading experience in delivering products and services across four core capabilities: Loyalty Lifestyle Benefits and Insurance.

The group provides unrivalled insight and expertise around affluent consumers and frequent travellers creating and delivering products and services now accessible to over 400m end consumers.

We have more than 25 years experience with 28 global locations servicing over 800 clients in 170 countries employing 1800 people.

We have been bringing innovation to the market since inception from launching the first independent global VIP lounge access Programme Priority Pass to being the first to sell direct travel insurance in the UK through Columbus Direct and creating the first loyalty agency of its kind in the travel sector with ICLP. Today we still invest heavily in innovation to ensure that we continue to deliver superior customer experiences.

Key clients include: Visa Mastercard American Express Cathay Pacific British Airways LATAM Flying Blue Accor EasyJet HSBC Chase HDFC.

Our mission is focused on doing good beyond profit which for us means we seek out opportunities for our people to share in our success and that we give back to the communities and people within which we work.

Never short of ambition the success of our business is delivered through the diverse and talented team of over 1800 colleagues globally.

Purpose of the job

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our Engineering Team.As a key member of our team youll play a pivotal role in maintaining and enhancing our strategic platform. Your handson involvement will directly impact our core Insurance functions driving efficiency innovation and reliability.

You will be working withdevelopment and infrastructure teams to manage and improvethe build automation continuous integration and automation of ourrelease and deploymentprocesses. By partnering with fellow DevOps Engineers Software Engineers and Architects youll tap into a wealth of knowledge and collective expertise.

Some key projects for the team will involvework on security hardening of systems in AWS and Azure andprocess automation.

You will have the opportunity to work with cuttingedge technologies and experience all aspects of the software development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Actively seek to enhance improve and drive efficiencies into our environments
• Design and Document new processes; maintain existing process documentation
• Monitor and look to improve the security of our environments
• Monitor metrics and develop ways to improve
• Handle IaC code deployments in all environments
• Communicate and collaborate with both development and infrastructure teams as well as other departments to ensure our applications and environments are stable and optimal
• Ensure that technical information related to DevOps are available in the knowledgebase and kept up to date
• To keep up to date with the technologies required to perform well in the job
• Assist project teams during the full life cycle of projects. Bringing technical knowledge and skills to improve upon the automation of builds and deployments
• Seek to automate and enhance new and existing processes

Knowledge skills and experience required

• Enterprise DevOps experience
• Experience in monitoring and tuning systems to provide optimum performance and high availability
• Experience in hardening internal and external system security

Essential Technical skills

• Terraform
• Git
• PowerShell/Python
• Windows
• Experience with AWS or Azure Cloud Platforms

Desirable Technical skills

• Puppet
• Continuous Deployment pipelines
• APM Tools
• Continuous Delivery Pipelines

Personal skills

• The ability to demonstrate through examples the effective management of stakeholder relationships
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Personable enthusiastic and a good communicator (ability to present inform and guide others)
• Ability to bridge communications between technical and business focussed groups
• Passionate about technology willingness to learn about new and emerging technology within web cloud languages frameworks and methodologies
• Ability to thrive in a fast moving and changing environment
• Ability to show initiative and to work independently
• Willingness to take on a variety of roles and responsibilities

Collinson is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes differences in all their forms including: colour race ethnicity gender identity sexual orientation neurodivergence family status age individuals with disabilities and people from all backgrounds cultures and experiences as we strongly believe this contributes to our ongoing success.

We are focused on continually evolving our purpose driven high performing culture providing an environment where our people have the opportunity to achieve their full potential and do interesting and meaningful work. Our company values are: Act smarter Do the right thing One team and Be insight led. These help guide everything we do internally in terms of how we think act and interact right through to how we deliver value to our customers and clients.

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