DevOps Engineer in Burnley

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be at the heart of managing and optimising our development processes. Your responsibilities will include overseeing tools and testing environments, managing central code control, maintaining development standards, and writing software that automates systems. You will design secure solutions and deliver complex projects using modern development standards. Your role will also involve troubleshooting and resolving complex service faults and designing efficient systems with medium levels of risk and complexity. You will actively collaborate with user researchers to champion user-focused design, as well as with technical and solutions architects and software developers. In addition, you will underpin the development of both internal user services and public-facing services. You will deploy and manage applications on OpenShift and third-party PaaS solutions and manage CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Transform technical requirements into an effective DevOps toolchain to enable product delivery.
• Ensure that deployment strategies for products are repeatable, scalable and highly available.
• Have deep technical knowledge, providing support to delivery teams and solving complex problems.
• Manage service components and optimise development processes to ensure they meet business needs and performance indicators.
• Design secure solutions and services with controls specifically engineered to mitigate security threats.
• Use modern development standards to design, code, test, and document programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity.
• Identify, locate, and fix complex service faults while advising others on different methodologies and types of service support.
• Design systems with medium levels of risk and complexity, ensuring the selection of appropriate technology and efficient resource use.
• Collaborate with user researchers to champion user research, prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, and offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to use.
• Deploy, manage, and scale applications on OpenShift and third-party Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions, while setting up and managing continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines.

Qualifications

• Provide coaching and mentoring to more junior colleagues.
• Availability and Capacity Management — You can manage service components to ensure they meet business needs and key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Development process optimisation — You can work under guidance to identify process optimisation opportunities and contribute to the implementation of proposed solutions.
• Information Security — You can design solutions and services with security controls included, specifically engineered to mitigate security threats.
• Modern Development Standards — You can apply modern development standards and support others in applying them.
• Programming and Build — You can collaborate with others when necessary to review specifications. You can use the agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity, using the right standards and tools.
• Prototyping — You can approach prototyping as a team activity, actively soliciting prototypes and testing with others.
• Service Support — You can identify, locate, and fix complex service faults, and advise others on different methodologies and types of service support.
• Systems Design — You can design systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity.
• Systems Integration — You can define the integration build co-ordinate build activities across systems understand how to undertake and support integration testing activities.
• User focus — You can collaborate with user researchers and can represent users internally.

You will hold a recognised technical certification appropriate to the role or be prepared to obtain this while in post.

Desirable Experience

• Experience with OpenShift.
• Proficiency with Prometheus and Terraform.
• Containerization and Kubernetes Experience.
• Web Development Skills.
• Experience with Platform as a Service (PaaS).
• Experience in CI/CD.
• Security Practices.