Principal Engineer/DevOps in Haywards Heath

At 1st Central, everything starts with our people.As one of the UK’s leading motor and home insurers, we use smart technology, data and great service to make insurance fast, fair and simple for over 1.4 million customers. We’re proud to create an environment where people feel supported, trusted and able to grow - whether that’s developing new skills, taking on fresh challenges or making a real impact every day. We're looking for a Principal Engineer for this hands-on technical role making use of .Net and Azure where you’ll be providing technical architecture leadership for a set of Focus technical products and services. Whilst not having any direct people management responsibilities, you'll provide support, coaching and mentoring to Focus engineers to ensure they deliver to the required quality and integrity. We’re big on flexible hybrid working. We primarily work from home but value collaboration, so we come together in person to keep ideas flowing, typically once a month. Prefer being in the office more often? A creative problem solver who thrives on creating simplicity out of complexity. Hands-on experience in DevOps and/or Engineering roles Beneficial - Azure certified Beneficial - Other cloud platform certification Good understanding of a service-based approach to technology, including component, service oriented and event driven architectures. You’ll drive forward and own the proactive monitoring of the products and services within your Value Stream.You’ll participate in Enterprise planning events to support the delivery and planning of change ensuring that the high-level solution aligns to the business outcome.You’ll be responsible for ensuring that speedy resolution of escalated priority incidents, problems and changes for all Products and services within your value stream including addressing follow up actions and improvements You’ll be responsible for the quality of the overall Focus products, ensuring that solutions are implemented effectively from a re-use and performance optimisation perspective.You’ll be responsible for coding standards and low-level design for the Focus products that all engineers follow.You’ll be responsible for the design and build of observability and quality by design into all Focus pipelines, promoting self-testing pipelines that proactively identify processing issues or discrepancies. You’ll carry out unit testing of own code, peer testing of others code to ensure appropriate quality, and will be responsible for completeness and integrity of solutions delivered on the Focus platform .With others you’ll be responsible for leading the SRE function within the value stream and participating in the on-call rota to support, fix, resolve issues 365/24/7 and adhere to the requirement and responsibilities of the on-call policy. You’ll coach and mentor Lead and Software Engineers. You’ll comply with the requirements, and act in accordance with, the Group Code of Conduct and Fitness and Propriety policies at all times. You’ll ensure compliance with Company Policies, Values and guidelines and other relevant standards/ regulations at all times.Experience & knowledgeRequires extensive experience of designing and building end to end cloud based software solutions.Experience of using AI to power software engineering.Experience of C# .Net including dependency injection entity framework and unit testing. Experience of designing applications on cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) with an understanding of containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes) and serverless technologies. Working knowledge of UML, software modelling techniques, tools and languages in order to describe software and data in a standard format. Exceptional at building strong, effective relationships with people from different disciplines. Experience of carrying out technical design and build activities using agile working practices (such as Scrum or Kanban). Unit Testing - Experience in writing unit tests for pipelines.Azure Cloud - Knowledge and confidence in effective communication on Azure Cloud Subscriptions, Resource Groups, Subnet, VNet, Private Endpoints testing, Firewall rues management on Azure platform components.Working knowledge of full stack solutions from SPA (ideally in Angular) to SQL databases. Skills & QualificationsA creative problem solver who thrives on creating simplicity out of complexity. Hands-on experience in DevOps and/or Engineering roles Beneficial- Azure certified Beneficial- Other cloud platform certification Beneficial - AI certifiedGood understanding of a service-based approach to technology, including component, service oriented and event driven architectures. Haywards HeathType: Full time