Senior DevOps Engineer
Ion
Job Summary
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the infrastructure and tools for efficient software service provision. This involves collaborating with development and infrastructure teams to streamline processes, enhance system reliability, and ensure seamless integration and delivery of software services. Key responsibilities include automating workflows, monitoring system performance, and troubleshooting issues to maintain high availability. You will work with development, infrastructure, and support teams, and product management to provide tools for monitoring, validation, deployment/upgrades, investigation/troubleshooting, business intelligence, and security. The role requires 5+ years of experience, skills in PowerShell, JavaScript, TypeScript, .NET, SQL, Azure DevOps pipelines/GitHub Actions, monitoring tools, debugging, profiling, and Windows/Azure Administration. Strong analytical, communication skills, and a positive attitude are essential for success.
Must Have
- 5+ years of experience in a related role
- Experience with PowerShell, JavaScript, TypeScript, .NET, SQL
- Experience with Azure DevOps pipelines/GitHub Actions
- Experience with monitoring tools
- Practical skills in debugging and profiling applications
- Windows/Azure Administration experience
- Excellent spoken and written English
Good to Have
- Degree educated in Computer Science or relevant subject
- Experience communicating to internal and external stakeholders
- Enthusiastic about delivering high quality software
- Experience of driving innovation within teams
- Positive, can-do approach to work
- Ability to communicate clearly and persuasively
- Creative approach to problem solving
Job Description
- Working with the Development team, Infrastructure team, Support team and Product Management team to provide tools to support business processes within the following categories:
- Monitoring – ensuring that the systems are available and working within expected parameters
- Validation – Did the deployments succeed, are the configurations valid…
- Deployment/ Upgrades – taking software through a CI/Deployment pipelines to meet the needs of the business
- Investigation/troubleshooting – Investigating issues passed over from the support team to understand and prevent recurrence.
- Business Intelligence – understand the usage of the applications/tools to provide insights to drive future development.
- Security – support pen tests/security reviews, understand impacts to business of threats raised from the security landscape
- Collaboratively work as part of the wider team to continuously deliver quality software to production
- Apply your experience and knowledge to solve both common and complex issues
- Exercise significant independent judgement to determine the best method for accomplishing objectives
- Provide constructive and timely feedback to the wider ION Analytics team with a goal of improvement/automation of repetitive tasks.
- Contribute to developing and refining the existing processes to enhance quality and productivity and promoting best practice.
- 5+ years of experience in a related role
- Some experience with PowerShell, JavaScript, TypeScript, .NET, SQL
- Experience with Azure DevOps pipelines/GitHub Actions.
- Experience with Monitoring tools, SCOM Management packs/Site 24/7…
- Practical skills in debugging and profiling applications
- Windows/Azure Administration experience
- Experience communicating to internal and external stakeholders
- Degree educated in Computer Science or relevant subject
- Excellent spoken and written English
- Enthusiastic about delivering high quality software
- Experience of driving innovation within teams
- Positive, can-do approach to work, delivering on commitments
- Ability to communicate clearly and persuasively
- Able to earn respect and build trust through high-quality delivery and by demonstrating the value added
- Constant drive to learn from your own - and others - mistakes
- Act with integrity, with the ability to make decisions, taking accountability for the consequences of these decisions
- Creative approach to problem solving, can look at existing situations and problems in novel ways and propose innovative solutions