DevOps Engineer

Datapharm; Leatherhead; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer to enhance their cloud infrastructure and automation processes. This role involves optimizing CI/CD practices and ensuring robust monitoring across applications on an Azure-based platform. Join a team committed to continuous improvement, where your contributions will directly impact the delivery of high-quality medicines information. With a focus on collaboration and shared best practices, you'll foster a culture of excellence while driving innovation in healthcare technology. If you're passionate about making a difference in the healthcare sector, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Life insurance

Medical insurance

Discounts on gym membership

25 days holiday per annum

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in DevOps and development with a strong technical background.
• Experience in Azure DevOps CI/CD tooling and provisioning Azure PaaS infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Optimize automation and CI/CD processes to drive efficiency and scalability.
• Ensure high availability and performance of cloud platforms for superior customer experience.

Skills

DevOps

Automation

C#

Incident Management

Application Performance Monitoring

Continuous Improvement

Analytical Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Azure DevOps

Terraform

PowerShell

Azure CLI

GIT

JavaScript

JSON

XML

YAML

Job description

Who we are looking for:

A key enabler to our continuous improvement ambitions is automation. This role will involve scoping where automation can improve our DevOps infrastructure and ways of working, and driving these changes through the delivery team.

You will also ensure that appropriate levels of monitoring and alerting are set up for all applications across our Azure based cloud platform. This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in building a cloud native, micro service-based publishing platform in the medicines' information field.

How you'll have an impact:

On Datapharm:

By optimising automation and CI/CD processes, this role will drive efficiency, scalability, and innovation, empowering Datapharm to maintain its competitive edge in delivering cutting-edge medicines information.

On the wider team:

Through collaboration and shared best practices, this role will foster a culture of continuous improvement, enhancing team cohesion and ensuring seamless integration across development, operations, and quality assurance teams.

On the customer:

By ensuring high availability, performance, and secure platforms, this role will directly contribute to a superior customer experience, enabling the delivery of reliable, accessible, and high-quality services.

What you'll need to succeed:

You should be highly technical and analytical, possessing 3+ years of DevOps and development experience.

Strong demonstrable experience in:

1. Azure DevOps CI/CD tooling (pipeline/infrastructure as code)
2. Provisioning and working with Azure PaaS infrastructure with Terraform and ARM templates or equivalent technologies
3. At least one high level computer software language, e.g., C#
4. Application Performance Monitoring
5. Incident Management, including incident response, root cause analysis and post-mortem processes

Proficient with:

1. PowerShell, Azure CLI
2. GIT, JavaScript, JSON, XML, YAML

Experience with:

1. Distributed architectures
2. Container technologies
3. Maintaining and deploying highly available, fault tolerant systems at scale
4. Dotnet development utilising the Azure Cloud Platform
5. Software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative methodologies

Interested?...This is what's in it for you:

1. Life insurance
2. Medical insurance
3. Discounts on gym membership and retailers
4. 25 days holiday per annum

Don't meet every single requirement? At Datapharm we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace and have been since 1977. We have been the trusted source of clear and accurate medicines information in the UK, with over 80 million visits each year. We help patients, carers, healthcare professionals, and the pharmaceutical industry make informed decisions using reliable, up-to-date information through modern digital platforms.

Our mission is to make healthcare information simple, effective, and accessible to everyone. So if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. You may just be the right candidate for this role or another within the company.