Senior DevOps Engineer in Milton Keynes

Department: Development

Reporting to: Chief Software Engineer

Location: Milton Keynes/Homebased - with the expectation to attend Graphnet Group office sites at least once per month, or as and when required for team collaboration days.

Overview:

Graphnet Health is the leading UK supplier of integrated healthcare solutions to the NHS. Our software solutions are helping to revolutionise patient care across the country, driving improved patient outcomes and patient satisfaction and delivering greater efficiency across the healthcare system. We have high ambitions and looking to bring in highly skilled individuals to help continue our adoption of Azure-native services and building a best-of-breed scalable SaaS platform for our solutions.

The person we are looking for will need to have 5+ years enterprise experience with Azure, who can demonstrate a real passion for cloud technologies, with strong problem solving and critical thinking, good communication skills and a strong work ethic.

Working within an existing DevOps team and part of a wider DevOps Consortium, the individual will have a diverse workload covering (but not limited to):

• Automation of infrastructure and software rollout using Azure DevOps pipelines, including quality gates such as approvals and code quality scanning and reusable templates to enable consistent scalable delivery.
• Design and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, including modular architectures, remote state management, and environment segregation with enterprise level governance.
• Support and operate enterprise-scale cloud platforms across multiple regions and environments, ensuring resilience, consistency, and high availability.
• Design and develop automated scaling and failover using deep health checks and insights.
• Architect and implement cloud infrastructure aligned with the Azure Well-Architected Framework, ensuring adherence to reliability, security, performance, operational excellence, and cost optimisation principles.
• Work closely with others, such as Development or Platform teams, to agree concepts/solutions that fulfil complex requirements yet remain achievable.
• Work closely with other departments, such as Ops and TechOps, to facilitate the smooth running of the cloud services by providing utilities/dashboards/scripts.
• Work closely with the Security teams to analyse and help remediate on internal and SoC flagged issues, create secure pipeline design and assisting with vulnerability remediation.
• Design, test, and continuously improve disaster recovery and business continuity strategies aligned to defined RTO/RPO targets.

Education & Skills Required:

A demonstrable understanding of Azure PaaS components. Key areas:

• Containerisation and orchestration with AKS and Docker (design, scaling, network and security).
• API Management.
• App Services and Azure Functions.
• Observability using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and Application Insights, Prometheus and Grafana.
• Implementation of governance and compliance controls using Azure Policy, Management Groups, and Landing Zone principles.
• Azure SQL and Managed Instance.
• Event driven architecture (Service Bus, Event Grid).
• Data integration and processing using Data Factory / Databricks.
• Identity and Access Management (RBAC, Key Vault and Managed Identities).
• Azure networking (e.g. VNets, NSGs, Private endpoints, DNS, load balancing, Front door). Understanding of the hub-spoke topology.

Proven experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions and/or Azure DevOps using YAML, including release strategies, approvals, and artifact management as well as testing integration.

Strong experience with Git-based workflows (branching strategies, repo management including pull requests and code reviews).

Hands on experience and scripting skills in:

• HELM and Flux.
• Powershell and Azure CLI.
• Terraform.

Experience in producing and maintaining technical documentation, standards, and reusable patterns to support knowledge sharing and team scalability.

Advantageous:

• Healthcare or Government related industry experience.
• Understanding of JIRA and Confluence.
• Exposure to AIOps practices, including intelligent monitoring and experience using AI-assisted development and operations tooling e.g. GitHub Copilot, intelligent automation.

Qualifications:

Microsoft certification(s) in Azure, such as AZ-400, AZ-305. Experience is valued over accreditation, however, there will be encouragement to gain accreditation during employment.

As an equal opportunities' employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, for you to be eligible for this role, you must have a valid right to work in the UK for the entire duration of your employment, as we are unable to provide routes to sponsorship currently.

Your security is important to us. Graphnet Health will never request that candidates download software, share remote access to their device, or install applications in order to apply or interview for a role. As a UK-based company, we are only able to consider candidates who are currently residing in the UK and who are legally eligible to work in the UK.

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