Senior DevOps Engineer

Farnell

Farnell, an Avnet company, is a global high-service distributor of technology products, services and solutions for electronic system design, maintenance and repair.

Farnell, part of Avnet, is one of the world’s leading brands in high-service electronics components and technology products distribution. We’ve been here for over 80 years and a part of that success is because we put people at heart and centre of everything we do.

Earlier this year we embarked on an Agile transformation journey, standing up multiple cross‑functional scrum teams who are all committed to building products that our customers will love.

You will play a pivotal role in helping us achieve moving to modern cloud based architecture with a true Dev Ops mindset to make sure we give a great experience to our suppliers and customers at any moment of the day, because that’s the Farnell way.

Office located in Leeds – Our roles are hybrid working 3 days in the office and 2 days from home.

Along with offering a competitive salary package, we also offer :

• A supportive team environment where everyone really is working toward the same goal.
• A strong open door policy within management
• An environment where you will be given the tools and opportunities to further your career
• Pension scheme
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays with option to buy additional holiday
• FREE Onsite Parking
• Flexible home working
• Cycle to work Scheme
• Reward schemes

• You are passionate about Agile, Dev Ops and all things in automation! You’re excited at the prospect of influencing & driving forward our Agile / Dev Ops transformation and bringing your expertise of cloud‑based technologies to the business.

• You have solid technical experience of building and deploying applications using tools such as Git, Docker, Kubernetes, Git Lab CI, Azure Dev Ops, Jenkins, WCBD, Maven and Ant. Ideally, within a Java Enterprise environment.
• You will ideally have experience using Dynatrace
• You have in-depth knowledge of Agile, Dev Ops and CI / CD best practices
• You have practical experience of working in a Unix / Linux environment including system administration and scripting – bash, python / jython, perl, yaml and awk
• You have deployment / configuration experience with Java application servers both on‑prem and in the cloud (Experience on either IBM Web Sphere or Oracle Web Logic is highly sought)
• You have knowledge of Dev Ops, infrastructure as a code and provisioning tools such as Ansible and Terraform
• You love to solve complex technical problems and find solutions that drive business and customer value
• You have great communication skills and are able to use them to build solid relationships with all levels of the business

• As Senior Dev Ops Engineer, you will be a part of our dev ops team who will take our existing build / release management toolset and modernise it to a high performing, automated, CI / CD pipeline(s) as we look to drive quality, stability and performance of our transactional websites while also shortening release cycles and enabling us to deliver better value to our customers more quickly.

• You will help shape our future tech state and influence how Farnell implements new technologies such as Docker, Open Shift, AKS, Node.js, Graph
  
  QL and Ansible to name but a few.
• You will work closely with our Agile Scrum teams to implement Agile / Dev Ops best practices throughout the whole SDLC.
• You will work with our SREs to help monitor, troubleshoot and fix any performance and reliability issues with our Live websites.
• You will help to rollout the Agile / Dev Ops way of working to other parts of the stack such as ERP and all associated integrations.
• You will help to implement our migration from on‑prem to cloud‑based (Azure) solutions.

• A career at Farnell means you will work alongside remarkable people who will help you reach your full potential and have a successful career with us.
• Your unique voice will be heard here and together we can build a better, stronger and more inclusive workplace that will bring us to being the leading B2B eCommerce brand for another 80 years.

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