Data and Analytics Senior DevOps Engineer - Fully Remote

Lorien; City Of London; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm is looking for a Data and Analytics Senior DevOps Engineer for a 6-month fully remote contract. The role involves ensuring the reliability, security, and scalability of cloud analytics platforms, focusing on automation and CI/CD processes. Candidates should have extensive experience with Azure, AWS, and infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform. Strong communication skills and collaboration across teams are essential.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience deploying cloud resources using Azure and ideally AWS.
• Strong knowledge of scripting languages like PowerShell and Python.
• Excellent understanding of CI/CD principles.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for the Data & Analytics platform team.
• Ensure reliability and security of analytics platform services.
• Deliver full automation for deployment of analytics platform services.
• Set development standards and configure operational support processes.
• Support users and internal development teams interacting with the platform.

Skills

Deploying Azure cloud resources

Using Terraform for infrastructure as code

CI/CD principles and tools

Scripting languages (PowerShell, Python, Azure CLI)

Cloud Networking (Azure)

Security best practices in Azure/AWS

Configuring cloud data services

Excellent communication skills

Tools

Terraform

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Job description

Overview

Data and Analytics Senior DevOps Engineer – Fully Remote – 6 Month Contract – Inside IR35.

Lorien is currently recruiting for a Data and Analytics Senior DevOps Engineer to join our client on a 6 month initial contract, inside IR35.

In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, security, and scalability of the existing cloud analytics platform, focusing on automation for deployment of infrastructure as code via continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment (CI/CD) pipelines. You will also provide operational support to users of the Data & Analytics platform covering administration of services, access management and any additional enhancements and configuration required.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and oversight to the group Data & Analytics platform team.
• Responsible for ensuring the reliability, security and scalability of analytics platform services.
• Deliver full automation of the deployment of Data & Analytics platform services via Infrastructure as code.
• Help to set development standards, configure operational support processes and provide technical assurance.
• Provide support to Data & Analytics platform users and internal development teams interacting with the Data & Analytics platform services.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience of deploying Azure and ideally AWS cloud resources and be fully conversant with agile and DevOps development methodology.
• Extensive experience in using Terraform to deploy cloud resources as infrastructure as code.
• Excellent understanding of CI/CD principles and experience with related tools (e.g. Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions).
• Strong knowledge of scripting languages such as PowerShell, Python and Azure CLI and proven experience with automation runbooks, VM maintenance scripts and SQL.
• Strong knowledge on Cloud Networking (Azure) such as private endpoints, Firewalls, NSGs, NAT gateways and route tables.
• Strong understanding of security best practices within Azure and ideally AWS.
• Experience of configuring cloud data services (preferably Databricks) in Azure and ideally AWS.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work across multiple teams.

Should this position be of interest please submit your CV and I will be in contact as required.

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.