DevOps Engineer

Jobtailor; Doncaster; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Thales UK is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design and build cloud-based infrastructure on Azure, applying modern DevSecOps practices and Infrastructure as Code methodologies to deliver scalable, secure platforms.

You will automate and improve development and release processes, provision resources across compute, network and storage, and provide ongoing production support while mentoring teams on best practices and security controls within the wider Thales UK community.

Qualifications

• Active interest in cloud operating environment with self-development in this discipline.

Responsibilities

• Design and build cloud-based infrastructure on Azure.
• Automate and improve development and release process.
• Support release and production environment where necessary.
• Maintaining the technical solution for infrastructure.
• Educate and communicate with the wider Thales UK community.

Skills

Azure Cloud Infrastructure

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD Pipelines

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

• Design and build industry leading cloud-based infrastructure on Azure
• Using modern DevSecOps practices, create and manage secure, low maintenance environments in cloud
• Create and maintain development tools to enable effective and efficient CI/CD pipelines
• Help shape and grow cloud estate, with no legacy systems to support
• Automate and improve development and release process
• Support release and production environment where necessary
• Maintaining the technical solution for infrastructure
• Define and develop the means so that products are correctly deployed respecting established rules.
• Support delivery teams with automated tools and scripts to provision infrastructure resources (compute, network & storage) in a simple and efficient manner.
• Securing the platform infrastructure
• Understand the functional context of the product up to the point of challenging functional decisions
• Ensure that operational best practices (supervision/monitoring, backups, archives, log management) are implemented.
• Ensure the Squad is informed and aware of operational constraints, and if required train the team on those topics.
• Ensuring Security best practises are being upheld
• Educate and communicate with the wider Thales UK community

Requirements

• Active interest in the cloud operating environment; able to show that you have undertaken self-development in this discipline
• Able to demonstrate a good understanding of cloud infrastructure as a service and cloud platform as a service
• Active ability and interest in scripting languages
• Strong experience with Cloud infrastructure on Azure
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or Ansible
• Experience with build and CI/CD tools and pipelines
• Exposure to application development.
• Good understanding of Cloud design patterns and have used them solve to complex problems.
• Security Clearance Requirement

Demonstrates expertise in designing and building cloud-based infrastructure on Azure, utilizing modern DevSecOps practices and Infrastructure as Code methodologies. Proficient in automating development and release processes while ensuring security best practices are upheld.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Azure Cloud Infrastructure
• Infrastructure as Code
• Terraform
• Ansible
• CI/CD Pipelines

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Cloud Infrastructure as a Service
• Cloud Platform as a Service
• Scripting Languages
• Cloud Design Patterns
• Development Tools

Soft Skills

• Communication
• Team Training
• Problem Solving

Certifications & Qualifications

• Security Clearance

Industry Keywords

• Cloud Operating Environment
• Operational Best Practices
• Production Environment Support
• Development and Release Process

Tools & Technologies

• DevSecOps Practices
• Automated Tools
• Monitoring Tools
• Backup Solutions