Sr. DevOps Engineer

Sphera; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Sphera is seeking an experienced Cloud Infrastructure professional to support multiple SaaS environments. You’ll work with Azure core services, broaden platform automation, and scale infrastructure responsibly.

The role demands adaptability across IaaS, PaaS, and serverless models, plus strong collaboration with engineers to deliver reliable solutions. Ideal candidates will demonstrate hands-on Azure expertise, CI/CD pipeline creation, and a track record of optimizing cloud resources, security,

Qualifications

• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with multiple disciplines.
• Solid foundation in IT or Software Engineering.
• Experience creating pipelines (CI/CD) and automating SaaS solutions in Azure.
• Strong automation skills with scripting languages and Terraform/ARM.
• Ability to build and optimize cloud-based networks (VNets, App Gateways).
• Familiarity with integrating multiple third-party tools like SonarCloud.
• Experience building environments from Windows, Linux, SQL, Redis, WebApps, etc.

Responsibilities

• Support application infrastructure to ensure platform is optimized for performance and reliability.
• Build and maintain supporting infrastructure for cloud environments and applications.
• Use Azure resources to implement scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient services.
• Guide critical projects with your SME knowledge alongside engineers.
• Perform and automate system administration services including installation, configuration, maintenance, and DR.
• Identify system-level OS and hardware bottlenecks.
• Automate auditing and tooling for security, compliance, and resource usage; monitor deployments.
• Take ownership of operational excellence and KPI focus.

Skills

Problem solving

Effective communication

IT or Software Eng

CI/CD pipelines

Automation scripting

Terraform/ARM

Cloud networking (VNets)

SonarCloud familiarity

Containerization

Tools

Azure

CI/CD Tools

Kubernetes

NewRelic

Job description

Sphera is a leading global provider of enterprise software and services that enables companies to manage and optimize their environmental, health, safety and sustainability. Our mission is to create a safer, more sustainable and productive world. Sphera is a portfolio company of Blackstone, a U.S.-based alternative asset investment company that focuses on private equity, technology and innovation, and more. Blackstone businesses succeed through strong partnerships, a personalized approach and a commitment to exceptional performance with uncompromising integrity. Sphera and Blackstone are leaders in the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) space. We are guided by our core values of Customer Centricity, Accountability, Bias to Action, Innovation, and Collaboration. These values help us recruit the right talent to join our rapidly expanding team of around the globe. It is important to us that each and every Spherion is not only eager to challenge themselves and knows how to get work done but is an awesome addition to our company culture.

Job Description

You’ll be part of a global team supporting multiple SaaS environments that help make the world a safer place. We use Azure as our core, but host on multiple platforms due to specific needs and our rapid pace of development and acquisition. The environment is rapidly changing from IaaS to PaaS to server less. So, you’ll need to both apply your current skillsets and learn new things on a daily basis to push the business forward. While you’ll ultimately need a diversity of expert level skills to succeed, having deep understanding and experience in just a couple of areas (cloud infrastructure, scripting, automation, etc) may just get you in the door to a great career.

Responsibilities

• Support application infrastructure to ensure platform is optimized for performance and reliability.
• Build and maintain supporting infrastructure for cloud environments and applications.
• Use wide range of Azure resources to implement scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient services.
• Work side by side with your engineers, guiding critical projects, using your subject matter expertise to solve complex problems.
• Perform and automate system administration services including installation, configuration, maintenance, and disaster recovery.
• Identify system level issues related to OS configuration and virtual hardware bottlenecks.
• Automation, auditing and other tooling for security, compliance, and resource usage - Monitor and improve processes for all deployments.
• Take ownership of operational excellence to establish and maintain business focused KPI's.
• Use these metrics not only as a basis for positive transformation, but also as a visible representation of your team's success.

Essential skills

• Strong problem-solving skills
• Ability to communicate effectively with multiple disciplines
• Solid foundation in either IT or Software Engineering
• Experience creating pipelines (CI/CD) and automating SaaS solutions in Azure.
• Strong automation skills both with scripting languages and Terraform, ARM, etc
• Ability to build and optimize cloud-based networks (VNets, App Gateways, etc)
• Familiarity and experience with integrating multiple third-party tools like SonarCloud.
• Ability to build environments from the ground up (windows, linux, SQL, Redis, WebApps, etc)
• Experience with containerization

Preferred skills

• Kubernetes or other orchestration tools
• Azure API management or similar
• NewRelic scripted monitors
• Experience with security tools (including CheckPoint) and best practices
• Hadoop, Kafka, Presto (or similar BI/Big Data tech)
• #LI-Remote #LI-TB1

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Sphera is a leading global provider of enterprise software and services that enables companies to manage and optimize their environmental, health, safety and sustainability. Our mission is to create a safer, more sustainable and productive world. We are guided by our core values of Customer Centricity, Accountability, Bias to Action, Innovation, and Collaboration. These values help us recruit the right talent to join our rapidly expanding team of Spherions around the globe. It is important to us that each and every Spherion is not only eager to challenge themselves and knows how to get work done but is an awesome addition to our company culture.

Sphera is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all colleagues.