DevOps Engineer 12 month FTC

Evelyn Partners; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Evelyn Partners seeks a highly skilled DevOps Engineer to join their team in Glasgow. The role involves developing and maintaining infrastructure as code, deploying containerized microservices, and implementing security best practices. Candidates should have extensive experience with Azure and container orchestration.

Benefits

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Pension contribution

Generous holiday package

Fully funded training towards professional qualifications

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a Cloud hosted DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineer role.
• Experience with Azure cloud infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of encryption techniques (GPG / TLS).

Responsibilities

• Deploy micro services to k8s clusters.
• Manage and maintain Azure cloud infrastructure.
• Implement and maintain security best practices.

Skills

Terraform

Azure

Containerization

Kubernetes

Linux Administration

Bash Scripting

GitHub Actions

Job description

Company Description

Evelyn Partners is a UK leader in wealth management, providing personalised, expert investment management and financial planning advice to support clients in embracing what's next. Our success hinges on our people and that's our secret for longevity. We are a team of passionate professionals and everything we do is guided by our purpose - placing the power of good advice into more hands, we go further to understand the needs of our clients and what matters most to them. We're here to help them make significant decisions with confidence, provide strong foundations for the future and guide them towards their goals.

Our strategy is to put the power of good advice into more hands. To deliver on this promise we are building a new wealth management service for next generation clients; to help them plan and manage their financial future (a new version of Bestinvest). This service will combine the best of great digital product design and wealth management expertise.

Job Description

Job Purpose

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced DevOps Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have enterprise experience developing and maintaining IaC (terraform). Deploying containerised microservice to AKS using ArgoCD, using GitHub Runners.

Qualifications

Key Responsibilities

• Create new and maintain existing GitHub Action running on self-hosted runners.

• Work with development teams deploying micro services to k8s clusters.

• Manage and maintain cloud infrastructure (Azure)

• Maintain several AKS clusters that make up the Internal Development Platform

• Implement and maintain security best practices and compliance requirements.

• Automate repetitive tasks and processes.

Essential skills

• 5+ years of experience in a Cloud hosted DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineer role or related field.

• Experience with Azure cloud infrastructure, with demonstratable ability to deliver secure network infrastructure through zero-trust principles.

• Strong understanding of use of encryption techniques (GPG / TLS certificates).

• Strong experience with writing and refactoring Terraform.

• Strong Linux administration using WSL2.

• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools Helm, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Desirable skills

• Strong knowledge of Authentication and Authorisation approaches using Azura Entra.

• Strong knowledge GitHub Actions.

• Strong Bash scripting and experience maintaining configuration yaml files.

• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Loki.

• Experience with package management tools such as NuGet, Maven, or npm

• Strong communication and teamwork skills

Additional Information

As a colleague here at Evelyn Partners you will have access to benefits that include

• Competitive salary

• Private medical insurance

• Life assurance

• Pension contribution

• Hybrid working model (role dependent)

• Generous holiday package

• Option to purchase additional holiday

• Shared parental leave

• Fully funded training towards professional qualifications

• Cycle to work scheme

• Season ticket loan

• Eye care support