Senior DevOps Engineer - Azure / OpenShift

Vbeyond; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Vbeyond is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to support a major Maximo upgrade and migration in the Aerospace & Defence sector. You will manage Azure and OpenShift platforms, implement CI/CD pipelines, and ensure secure delivery practices in a MAS 9.x / DB2 environment hosted in Azure.

Candidates must have hands-on Azure, ARO and Kubernetes skills, experience with automated deployment, monitoring and logging, and a proven ability to troubleshoot complex enterprise cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on Azure administration experience.
• Strong hands-on OpenShift / ARO experience.
• Strong Kubernetes administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Proven CI/CD pipeline and orchestration experience.
• Experience with automated deployment and release processes.
• Strong infrastructure monitoring and logging experience.
• Experience troubleshooting complex Kubernetes/OpenShift environments.
• Strong understanding of DevOps and secure delivery practices.
• Experience supporting enterprise cloud environments.
• Strong problem-solving and technical troubleshooting skills.
• Experience working on complex upgrade, migration or transformation programmes.

Responsibilities

• Administer and support Microsoft Azure environments.
• Manage and support Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) platforms.
• Kubernetes/OpenShift administration and troubleshooting.
• Design, maintain and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines.
• Support automated build, deployment and release processes.
• Monitor infrastructure, applications and platform environments.
• Implement and maintain effective logging and monitoring solutions.
• Investigate and resolve platform, deployment and infrastructure issues.
• Apply secure DevOps and secure delivery practices.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure and platform teams.
• Support deployment and environment activities for the MAS upgrade and migration.
• Contribute to technical remediation and environment stabilisation activities.

Skills

Azure administration

OpenShift / ARO

Kubernetes administration

CI/CD pipelines

Automated deployment

Monitoring & logging

DevOps security practices

Enterprise cloud environments

Troubleshooting

Upgrade & migration projects

Job description

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer with strong expertise in Azure, Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO), Kubernetes and CI/CD to support a major Maximo upgrade and migration programme within the Aerospace & Defence sector.

The programme involves the technical upgrade and lift-and-shift migration of an existing Maximo 7.6 environment running on Oracle to Maximo Application Suite (MAS) 9.x running on DB2, hosted in Azure Cloud.

The successful candidate will be responsible for Azure and OpenShift administration, CI/CD orchestration, Kubernetes troubleshooting, infrastructure monitoring and logging, and implementing secure DevOps and delivery practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and support Microsoft Azure environments.
• Manage and support Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) platforms.
• Perform Kubernetes/OpenShift administration and troubleshooting.
• Design, maintain and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines.
• Support automated build, deployment and release processes.
• Monitor infrastructure, applications and platform environments.
• Implement and maintain effective logging and monitoring solutions.
• Investigate and resolve platform, deployment and infrastructure issues.
• Apply secure DevOps and secure delivery practices.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure and platform teams.
• Support deployment and environment activities for the MAS upgrade and migration.
• Contribute to technical remediation and environment stabilisation activities.

Technical Environment

Current Environment: Maximo 7.6 + Oracle

Target Environment: MAS 9.x + DB2

Cloud Platform: Azure

Container Platform: Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) / Kubernetes

Programme: Maximo upgrade and lift-and-shift migration

Sector: Aerospace & Defence

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on Azure administration experience.
• Strong hands-on OpenShift / ARO experience.
• Strong Kubernetes administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Proven CI/CD pipeline and orchestration experience.
• Experience with automated deployment and release processes.
• Strong infrastructure monitoring and logging experience.
• Experience troubleshooting complex Kubernetes/OpenShift environments.
• Strong understanding of DevOps and secure delivery practices.
• Experience supporting enterprise cloud environments.
• Strong problem-solving and technical troubleshooting skills.
• Experience working on complex upgrade, migration or transformation programmes.

Eligibility & Security

• SC Clearance required or candidate must be eligible and able to obtain it.
• Ability to work 1-2 days per week onsite in Derby.