DevOps Engineer

• Design and build industry leading cloud-based infrastructure on Azure
• Using modern Dev Sec Ops  practices, create and manage secure, low maintenance environments in cloud
• Create and maintain development tools to enable effective and efficient CI/CD pipelines
• Help shape and grow cloud estate, with no legacy systems to support
• Automate and improve development and release process
• Support release and production environment where necessary
• Maintaining the technical solution for infrastructure
• Define and develop the means so that products are correctly deployed respecting established rules.
• Support delivery teams with automated tools and scripts to provision infrastructure resources (compute, network & storage) in a simple and efficient manner.
• Securing the platform infrastructure
• Understand the functional context of the product up to the point of challenging functional decisions
• Ensure that operational best practices (supervision/monitoring, backups, archives, log management) are implemented.
• Ensure the Squad is informed and aware of operational constraints, and if required train the team on those topics.
• Ensuring Security best practises are being upheld
• Educate and communicate with the wider Thales UK community

• Active interest in the cloud operating environment; able to show that you have undertaken self-development in this discipline
• Able to demonstrate a good understanding of cloud infrastructure as a service and cloud platform as a service
• Active ability and interest in scripting languages
• Strong experience with Cloud infrastructure on Azure
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or Ansible
• Experience with build and CI/CD tools and pipelines
• Exposure to application development.
• Good understanding of Cloud design patterns and have used them solve to complex problems.
• Security Clearance Requirement

Demonstrates expertise in designing and building cloud-based infrastructure on Azure, utilizing modern Dev Sec Ops  practices and Infrastructure as Code methodologies. Proficient in automating development and release processes while ensuring security best practices are upheld.

• Azure Cloud Infrastructure
• Infrastructure as Code
• Terraform
• Ansible
• CI/CD Pipelines

• Cloud Infrastructure as a Service
• Cloud Platform as a Service
• Scripting Languages
• Cloud Design Patterns
• Development Tools

• Communication
• Team Training
• Problem Solving

• Security Clearance

• Cloud Operating Environment
• Operational Best Practices
• Production Environment Support
• Development and Release Process

• Dev Sec Ops  Practices
• Automated Tools
• Monitoring Tools
• Backup Solutions