DevOps Engineer - 12 Month FTC

Evelyn Partners; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading wealth management firm in Liverpool is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to manage Azure infrastructure and deploy containerized microservices. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience in DevOps and a strong understanding of Terraform and cloud security principles. Benefits include a competitive salary and a hybrid working model.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Pension contribution

Generous holiday package

Option to purchase additional holiday

Shared parental leave

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a Cloud hosted DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer role.
• Experience with Azure cloud infrastructure and secure network principles.
• Strong understanding of encryption techniques.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain GitHub Actions on self-hosted runners.
• Deploy microservices to Kubernetes clusters.
• Manage and maintain Azure cloud infrastructure.

Skills

Azure cloud infrastructure

Terraform

Linux administration

Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

Bash scripting

Tools

GitHub Actions

Prometheus

Grafana

ArgoCD

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.

Job Description

What will you be doing?

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.

As DevOps Engineer, your responsibilities will include among others :

• 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

Qualifications

To be successful in this role, you should :

• 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 dependant)
• Generous holiday package
• Option to purchase additional holiday
• Shared parental leave

We are proud to value the differences that a diverse workforce brings, representative of society and our clients. At Evelyn Partners we have a wide range of highly active employee resource groups and we're delivering multiple diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives across the organisation. It is our commitment to provide a workspace where all colleagues, regardless of identity, background, or circumstance, feel respected as individuals and feel that they can achieve their full potential and work in a safe, supportive, and inclusive environment.

We are happy to make any reasonable adjustments to accommodate for your needs throughout the application process. Please let your Recruiter know.