DevSecOps Engineer

Department: Technology

Location: London

Working Pattern: Hybrid, includes 3 days each week in the office

Contact Type: Full time, permanent

Salary: Up to £80,000 per annum

Tes is an international provider of software-enabled services passionate about using technology to make life easier for schools and teachers. All products and services are built with teachers and schools needs at the core, ensuring they are innovative, trusted education solutions.

Role overview: As a DevSecOps Engineer, you will be pivotal in designing and implementing best DevSecOps practices while fostering a culture of continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD). You will collaborate closely with development and operations teams to streamline the software development lifecycle, ensuring that our systems are reliable, secure, and scalable.

Key Responsibilities:

• DevSecOps Strategy: Develop and execute a comprehensive DevSecOps strategy aligned with the company's goals. Continuously evaluate and enhance DevSecOps processes, tools, and methodologies.
• CI/CD Implementation: Design, implement, and manage robust CI/CD pipelines for automated software deployment, testing, and monitoring. Ensure reliable and timely delivery of software releases.
• Infrastructure Management: Manage and scale cloud-based infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP). Apply Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles for provisioning and configuration management.
• Security and Compliance: Collaborate with the security team to implement best practices for system and data security. Ensure systems comply with relevant industry standards and regulations.
• Monitoring and Performance: Set up and maintain monitoring and alerting systems for early issue detection and resolution. Continuously optimize system performance and resource usage.
• Documentation: Create and maintain thorough documentation for DevOps processes, tools, and practices.

What You Need to Succeed:

• Proven experience in a DevOps role, with a strong background in both software development and operations.
• Expertise with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Travis CI).
• Proficiency in scripting and automation (e.g., Bash, Python, Ansible).
• Strong experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Deep knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.
• DevOps certifications (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, CKA) are a plus.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform).
• Knowledge of microservices architecture.
• Familiarity with security best practices and tools.

Knowledge:

• Cloud Platforms: Strong knowledge of AWS, Azure, or GCP, including cloud architecture, services, and security models.
• Containerization & Orchestration: In-depth understanding of Docker and Kubernetes for deploying and managing containerized applications.
• CI/CD Concepts: Solid knowledge of continuous integration and delivery principles, with a focus on automation and streamlining development pipelines.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Knowledge of IaC frameworks, particularly Terraform, to manage cloud infrastructure via code.
• Microservices Architecture: Familiarity with microservices design patterns and deployment strategies in a cloud-native environment.
• Security Best Practices: Strong understanding of security frameworks and compliance standards for cloud infrastructure and DevOps processes.
• Monitoring & Observability: Understanding of monitoring, logging, and alerting tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) to ensure system performance and issue tracking.

Skills:

• CI/CD Tools: Hands-on experience with Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Travis CI, or similar tools for building CI/CD pipelines.
• Scripting & Automation: Proficiency in scripting languages like Bash and Python, along with automation tools such as Ansible for managing configurations and deployments.
• Containerization & Orchestration: Practical skills in deploying and managing containers using Docker and orchestrating workloads using Kubernetes.
• Cloud Infrastructure Management: Expertise in managing and scaling cloud environments on AWS, Azure, or GCP, leveraging services for compute, storage, networking, and security.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Skilled in using Terraform to automate provisioning and management of cloud infrastructure.
• Troubleshooting & Problem Solving: Strong analytical skills for identifying and resolving complex system issues, especially in production environments.
• Collaboration & Communication: Excellent ability to work cross-functionally, with strong communication and leadership skills for guiding teams through DevOps transformations.

Certifications (Preferred): Holding certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), or other relevant credentials.

What do you get in return?

• 25 days annual leave rising to 30
• 5% pension after probation
• State of the art city centre offices
• Access to a range of benefits via My Benefits World
• Discounted city centre parking
• Free eye care cover
• Life Assurance
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• EAP (Employee assistance programme)
• Monthly Tes Socials
• Access to an extensive Learning and Development menu

Who are Tes?

Tes has been supporting the education sector for over a century, growing and changing alongside the evolution of education. Today, Tes is focused on providing digital solutions to support school leaders and teachers with wellbeing, continuous professional development, safeguarding, SEND provision, flexibility through timetabling, and pupil behaviour management.

Our Vision is to power schools and enable great teaching worldwide, by creating intelligent online products and services to make the greatest difference in education. Tes has over 13m teachers in its online community and working relationships with 25,000 schools in over 100 countries. Tes helps schools find the teachers they need via a range of recruitment solutions; brings new teachers into the profession through initial teacher training; provides teachers with continuous professional development and world class safeguarding training. It also offers a range of expert tools for the classroom from timetabling, SEND provision, and behaviour management solutions to dynamic staff surveying and wellbeing tools. Tes brings educators together online so they can share expertise and teaching resources and it provides them with vital information, research and analysis about education via its fully digital Tes Magazine.

Tes is a global company employing over 600 people and operating across 10 offices, including in London, Sheffield, Hong Kong, Sydney, and Dubai. We are proud of our people centric culture where everyone is driven to achieve the same goal. We are an agile organization striving for continuous improvement. We invest in our people with extensive learning and development opportunities and support our colleagues with various mentoring and career enhancement programmes.

Tes Global will ensure all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or on the basis of disability. We invite applicants to contact us directly to identify any additional support required.

www.tes.com/tesglobal