DevOps Engineer HR Tech

The Role:

Next Technology is looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our DevOps - HR Technology team with CI/CD Pipeline experience to be aligned to great teams of developers in our tech domains.

We require an individual who has exposure to Cloud IdeallyMicrosoft Azure and containerisation technologies (Using Docker and Kubernetes) to drive innovation and adoption of new cloud services.

We work closely with our Development Domains and Business users to ensure they have the right tools to get our Products to the market as quickly and efficiently as possible allowing the business growth NEXT has seen over the last few years.

We never standstill we are constantly looking to evolve our technology our applications and the services we offer our stakeholders. We really are a group of people who love technology pushing boundaries and answering the what-ifs!

Working with us would mean exposure to new technologies and ways of working getting involved in forcing through change and ultimately providing our customers with a better service. Like all departments we also have challenges with some legacy applications and older code languages but who doesnt love a good challenge

We can promise an environment that is never dull with the freedom and support to express yourself to come up with new initiatives. If you want to suggest a new way of working an improvement to an application or try a new technologygo for it!

We run a lean operation in a quick paced environment so we need our people to be able to work efficiently accurately and well under pressure. We expect the right individual to have excellent communication skills being able to work in a team be involved in open discussion communicate ideas inclusion and diversity. Having strong analytical and problem-solving skills will be advantageous especially as the person in this role will be driving forward the new technologies and approach in Next Technology.

What Youll Take On:

• Create and modify infrastructure code to provision and configure cloud resources in line with IaaS SaaS and PaaS solutions
• Automate the creation & deployment of Development Test PreProduction and Production environments via Infrastructure-as-Code
• Manage CI/CD pipelines (YAML) - configure automated infrastructure and software build/deployment/release processes using Git for version control and code management
• Maintain and govern all environments to ensure consistency of software
• Management of application Source Code including ensuring that branching strategies are followed
• Use monitoring tools for Applications Servers & Services diagnostics
• Assist Development teams with performance and volume testing and troubleshooting build and deployment issues
• Identify departmental processes that where possible can be streamlined or automated
• Create and maintain technical documentation detailing High Level and Low Level Cloud solutions
• Provide Cloud expertise to guide the Project teams to develop in the most efficient manner and in line with best practices
• Ensure use of DevSecOps principles and work alongside both internal and external Auditing and Security teams in order to maintain security of all environments and data
• Work in tandem with agile principles participating in sprint ceremonies and effectively managing own workload
• Coordinate and liaise with development project teams (Developers QA Analyst Project Managers) on requirements planning and status updates
  
  

What Youll Bring:

Technical requirements

• Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform)
• Strong background in Microsoft Azure and container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes) to drive modern DevOps practices
• Azure DevOps Artifacts Boards CI/CD pipelines (YAML) Repositories
• Knowledge in DevOps concepts best practices and Agile principles
• Experience of working with the 3 main Cloud Providers - Azure being preferred
• Core Core C#
• PowerShell Bash scripting
• SQL Server / NoSQL databases / CosmosDB
• Windows & Linux servers
• Source Control Management (Git)
  

Desirable

• Microservices
• DevSecOps Tooling (i.e. SonarCloud Veracode CrowdStrike)
• Docker containers
• Kubernetes
• Helm charts

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