Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer
Location: Birmingham (Solihull)
Salary: Competitive
Job Type: Permanent, Full Time, hybrid working – must be able to commute 3 days a week to the office.
sales-i is a sector defining software company on a mission to create the very best products to support business and we are looking for passionate individuals to join our journey of innovation and growth.
The role:
Provide support for the design, build, implementation, maintenance and monitoring of sales-i’s Dev Ops environments and pipelines that underpin our SaaS products.
You will do this working closely with our talented Tech Ops, Dev, Data Engineering and QA teams.
Key Result Areas
- Create, implement, maintain and build the monitoring for our new Azure and GitHub Dev Ops environments and build/deploy pipelines.
- Migrate and upgrade existing Azure (and other) pipelines with the goal to achieve as-close-to full CI/CD automation for the existing sales-i service.
- Maintain and enhance the new GitHub pipelines for the sales-ai service.
- Define and maintain DevOps best practices and standards.
- Quickly and clearly identify and investigate issues through to resolution.
- Identify and recommend solutions that benefit sales-i and ultimately our customers.
Responsibilities & Duties
- Work with the Tech Ops and Development team to develop the GitHub Dev Ops pipelines for new SaaS products.
- Develop processes for optimising, improving and migrating the existing Azure (and non Azure) based pipelines for existing products.
- Set and maintain the environment, build and deployment standards.
- Manage Azure Dev Ops environment (including roles and permissions)
- Performance tuning of pipelines.
- Diagnose and troubleshoot pipeline and environment issues.
- Work with QA team to integrate their test automation into the CI pipelines.
Dimensions
- Business is conducted via phone, email and online meetings.
- The Dev, Tech Ops and QA teams are mainly based in the UK, with customers around the globe.
- Deployments will be to multi-geo locations and timezones.
- An ability to operate independently is essential given the time difference between our offices.
Qualifications & Experience
- Expert in the Software Development Lifecycle with both a Dev and Ops mindset.
- Demonstrable experience creating and managing AWS or Azure Dev Ops CI/CD pipelines and associated environments.
- Expert experience managing environments and IaC concepts.
- Experience with other cloud services (AWS, Google Cloud) is beneficial.
Technical Skills
- Strong experience of Kubernetes, Docker and IaaS environments and scripting.
- Strong experience of managing Dev Ops CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience of migrating part-manual and fully manual existing pipelines to AWS or Microsoft Azure Dev Ops.
- Microservice infrastructures (e.g. Azure Functions).
- Linux system administration.
- Windows system administration.
- Experience of HADOOP clusters with NoSQL database deployments within CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience of integrating test automation.
Benefits:
- Great opportunity to influence and take ownership in an exciting, driven role.
- We are small to medium sized company, offering great career potential and new learning capability.
- Pension & Health Cash Plan
- Free parking on site
- Impressive workspace, offering spacious offices, centrally based, close to motorway networks and train/bus stations
- Excellent working environment, with fantastic career opportunities within a growing company
- Great industry to work in
- Social activities and events
- Company outings
- 25 days holiday
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