DevOps Engineer

Cencora; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Cencora is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join their Cloud Engineering team in the UK. This role involves driving solutions for the infrastructure in Azure Cloud, collaborating with engineering teams to enhance client services. Ideal candidates will have operational experience in cloud platforms, excellent problem-solving skills, and a desire to innovate. This position is remote with occasional office visits, offering a competitive salary and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Remote position with optional office time

Opportunity for personal learning and development

Supportive and collaborative team environment

Opportunities for career progression

Qualifications

• Experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP cloud platforms.
• Knowledge of cloud-native services and DevOps tools.
• Experience in production environments for application support.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to cloud strategy and service implementation.
• Ensure alignment with best practices for design and security.
• Monitor and maintain Azure cloud components.

Skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Excellent critical analysis and problem-solving skills

Team player

Strong desire to learn and grow

Education

Previous experience in cloud platform operational role

Experience working with Microsoft Azure

Understanding of technologies for DevOps

Good understanding of SQL

Job description

Our team members are at the heart of everything we do. At Cencora, we are united in our responsibility to create healthier futures, and every person here is essential to us being able to deliver on that purpose. If you want to make a difference at the center of health, come join our innovative company and help us improve the lives of people and animals everywhere. Apply today!

Job Details

MWI is a company owned by AmerisourceBergen that operates out of the United States and the United Kingdom. We support customers in achieving their goals through:

Wholesale Services - Fast access to veterinary pharmaceuticals and supplies through temperature controlled fleet of vehicles, warehouses and an ordering experience through the MWI online store.

Practice Management Technology (Merlin) - Web/mobile solutions that support the core workflows of your veterinary business from warehousing to patient management, appointments and communication.

Job Details:

As a DevOps Engineer, you'll be joining the Cloud Engineering team working to drive solutions for design, build and operational aspects of our infrastructure in Azure Cloud. You will work closely with the engineering and technical support teams to proactively improve our offerings to our clients from a scalability, reliability and speed to market perspective.

Our teams are distributed around the UK with offices based in Camberley and Castle Cary. There are twenty people in the UK today across four teams (product, cloud services, developers, platform and support). We are scaling to over forty people within our department with significant investment from our parent company. This is a mostly remote position with occasional (monthly) visits to one of our two offices.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to development and implementation of strategy related to cloud platforms and services to best serve the goals of the business.
• Ensure design/change (devops) and execution is aligned and working to best practices around infrastructure and security.
• Design and implementation of cloud platforms and services using automation and coding.
• Leverage orchestration and automation techniques to drive efficiency.
• Work with the team on critical analysis, problem solving for operational problems in the platform (logs, metrics, traces) and root cause analysis.
• Configure/build, maintenance and documentation of Azure cloud components.
• Continuously monitor and undertake security analysis of the platform using automated tools.
• Patch and maintain our Windows estate whilst overseeing the move to Linux based operating systems as standard for compute, data and ancillary services.
• Define, contribute and update standard operating procedures for all operational aspects of the platform.
• Be part of the OOH support rota in support of the services your team own and manage.

Requirements:

• Previous experience in an operational role with a cloud platform (Azure, AWS, GCP) as an engineer or other related technical cloud-focused role.
• Experience working with Microsoft Azure with knowledge of cloud-native services (Azure DNS, Application Gateway, Azure SQL Server, App Services, Blob Storage, Load Balancer, WAF) and best-practices for working with technology.
• An understanding of technologies that underpin a DevOps approach to cloud migration and management, including but not exclusive to, Infrastructure-as-Code, Configuration-as-Code, Containerisation and Orchestration, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Test Automation using programming language like Terraform, powershell etc.
• Excellent understanding of networking principles (IP addressing, virtual networks, network security and networking models).
• Understanding of observability and site-reliability principles (SLO's, SLI's) and working with engineering teams to improve the applications and platform.
• Good understanding of SQL and working with relational databases.
• Experience working in a production environment to support, operate and maintain applications.
• Experience working with incident management processes and tools (we use OpsGenie).
• Experience working with logging tools (e.g. Log Analytics, Datadog) and monitoring (e.g. Azure Monitor) and application performance management tools (we use New Relic).
• Good understanding of information and data security principles (e.g. GDPR, penetration testing).
• Experience designing solutions and implementing projects.

Minimum skills required:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to talk to people in various tech and non tech-focused roles
• Excellent critical analysis and problem-solving skills
• Good team player
• Strong desire to learn and grow

Desirable:

• Some knowledge of common programming languages (Java, Javascript, Go).
• An understanding of data engineering infrastructure, data processing and presentation.
• Experience of containerisation technology (e.g. Docker).
• Understanding of continuous integration solutions (e.g. Jenkins, Azure DevOps);
• Experience of Cyber Security Essentials or similar certification.
• Experience in vulnerability management (e.g. Phishing, social engineering, malware etc.).
• Experience of single sign-on products (e.g. Auth Zero, SAP Gigya).

What Cencora offers:

• Remote position with optional office time
• Salary range of 55-70k
• Opportunity to gain hands-on experience with various technologies and tools, allowing for personal learning and development
• Be part of a supportive, collaborative team and have the opportunity to work with various tech-focused teams
• Opportunity to progress and grow into a more senior role later on
• Support our veterinary practice clients in enhancing patient care by creating effective tools for their daily operations

What Cencora offers

Benefit offerings outside the US may vary by country and will be aligned to local market practice. The eligibility and effective date may differ for some benefits and for team members covered under collective bargaining agreements.

Full time

Affiliated Companies
Affiliated Companies: Centaur Services

Equal Employment Opportunity

Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.

The company's continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.

Cencora is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the employment process which are consistent with legal requirements. If you wish to request an accommodation while seeking employment, please call 888.692.2272 or email [e-mail]. We will make accommodation determinations on a request-by-request basis. Messages and emails regarding anything other than accommodations requests will not be returned

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