DevOps Engineer

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

Job summary

A leading animal health company in the United Kingdom is seeking a DevOps Engineer to enhance their Azure Cloud infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have demonstrable experience in Azure cloud operations, focusing on best practices around security and efficiency. You will work closely with engineering teams to improve application reliability and scalability. This role offers a competitive salary, bonus scheme, and additional benefits including a pension and life assurance.

Benefits

Competitive base salary

Bonus scheme

Pension plan

Life Assurance

Employee Assistance Program

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in an operational role with the Azure cloud platform.
• Knowledge of cloud-native services like Azure DNS and Blob Storage.
• Understanding of Infrastructure-as-Code and Containerisation.
• Excellent understanding of networking principles.
• Familiarity with site-reliability principles.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to development of cloud platforms and services.
• Ensure design and execution align with best practices.
• Design and implement cloud services using automation.
• Drive efficiency using orchestration and automation techniques.
• Monitor security analysis of the platform.

Skills

Azure

CI/CD

DevOps

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Linux

PowerShell

SQL

Java

JavaScript

Job description

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.

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.

Technologies

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

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in an operational role with the Azure cloud platform 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.

Are you a DevOps Engineer who is looking to apply their skills in a rewarding industry? MWI Animal Health is looking for a Talented DevOps Engineer to join our mission to improve the lives of animals. In return, we offer a supportive environment, competitive base salary, bonus scheme and wider company benefits such pension, Life Assurance and an Employee Assistance Program.