DevOps Engineer

Cencora, Inc.; Woking; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health services company in the United Kingdom is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join their Cloud Engineering team. You will design and operationalize infrastructure in Azure Cloud, collaborating with engineering teams to enhance scalability and reliability. Ideal candidates will have operational Azure experience and knowledge of cloud-native services. Competitive salary and benefits are offered.

Benefits

Competitive base salary

Bonus scheme

Pension

Life assurance

Employee Assistance Program

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in an operational role with Azure cloud platform.
• Understanding of cloud-native services and best practices.
• Excellent understanding of networking principles.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to development and implementation of cloud strategy.
• Design and implement cloud platforms using automation.
• Continuously monitor and undertake security analysis.

Skills

Azure cloud platform experience

Infrastructure-as-Code

Configuration-as-Code

Containerisation

Kubernetes

CI/CD practices

PowerShell

Terraform

Networking principles

Tools

Docker

Jenkins

SQL

Job description

Overview

As a DevOps Engineer, you will join the Cloud Engineering team to design, build, and operationalize infrastructure in Azure Cloud. You will work closely with engineering and support teams to improve scalability, reliability, and speed to market.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to development and implementation of cloud strategy
• Ensure design/change and execution align with best practices around infrastructure and security.
• Design and implement cloud platforms and services using automation and coding.
• Leverage orchestration and automation techniques to drive efficiency.
• Work with the team on critical analysis and root cause analysis for operational problems (logs, metrics, traces).
• Configure, build, maintain, and document Azure cloud components.
• Continuously monitor and undertake security analysis of the platform using automated tools.
• Patch and maintain Windows estate while overseeing move to Linux 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.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in an operational role with Azure cloud platform as an engineer or related technical cloud-focused role.
• Experience working with Microsoft Azure and knowledge of cloud-native services (Azure DNS, Application Gateway, Azure SQL Server, App Services, Blob Storage, Load Balancer, WAF) and best practices.
• Understanding of technologies that underpin a DevOps approach to cloud migration and management, including Infrastructure-as-Code, Configuration-as-Code, Containerisation, Orchestration, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and test automation using programming languages 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 (SLOs, SLIs) and working with engineering teams to improve the applications and platform.

Technologies

• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Docker
• Support
• Java
• JavaScript
• Jenkins
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• Network
• PowerShell
• SQL
• Security
• Terraform
• WAF
• Windows

Benefits

MWI Animal Health offers a supportive environment, competitive base salary, bonus scheme, and wider company benefits such as pension, life assurance, and an Employee Assistance Program.