Senior Azure DevOps Engineer - Population Health

Vacancy No: LH18650

Job Title: Senior Azure DevOps Engineer - Population Health

Salary: to £65,000

Milton Keynes or homebased, with the expectation to attend Group office sites at least once a month or as and when required for team collaboration days.

Department: Development (Population Health)

Reporting to: Analytics Senior Scrum Master

Overview:

A British healthcare software development company that builds and delivers market leading applications in the integrated, care record and population health space. Previously been awarded "Outstanding" by Best Companies, earning a top 100 spot in the mid-sized companies category, amongst other accolades. Following recent successes of our solutions, we’re looking to expand and continue to innovate in our space. They have high ambitions and are looking to bring in highly skilled individuals to help continue their adoption of Azure-native services and building a best-of-breed solutions.

The person we are looking for will need to have 5+ years enterprise experience with Azure, who can demonstrate a real passion for cloud technologies, with strong problem solving and critical thinking, good communication skills and a strong work ethic.

Working within an existing Analytics development team and part of a wider DevOps Consortium, the individual will have a diverse workload covering (but not limited to):

• Automation of infrastructure and software rollout using Azure DevOps pipelines, including quality gates such as approvals and code quality scanning.
• Deploy/Maintain Infrastructure, using an IaC approach.
• Design and develop automated scaling and failover using deep health checks and insights.
• Work closely with other departments, such as Ops and TechOps, to facilitate the smooth running of the cloud services.
• Work closely with the Security teams to analyse and help remediate on internal and SoC flagged issues, along with assisting in internal vulnerability checks/ethical hacking
• Continuous improvement and testing of DR/BCP to ensure high availability

Personal Attributes:

• Able to work well as an individual and as part of a team
• Take part in architectural discussions with technical / non-technical team members
• Able to self-manage and self-motivate
• An eye for detail and a desire to adhere to best practices
• Strong inter-personal and communication skills
• Able to work under pressure
• Have a desire to keep up with the latest tools and techniques

Education & Skills Required:

• A deep understanding of Azure PaaS components. Key areas:

1. Azure SQL
2. Data Factory
3. Databricks
4. Power BI
5. Data Lakes
6. Fabric

• Proven experience with Azure DevOps (ADO)

• Solid understanding of

1. Terraform
2. HELM
3. Flux
4. PowerShell / Azure CLI

Advantageous:

• Healthcare or Government related industry experience
• Understanding of JIRA and Confluence
• Experience with AKS (deployment + management)
• Python scripting

Qualifications:

• Microsoft certification(s) in Azure, such as AZ-400 (Azure DevOps Engineer)
• Experience is valued over accreditation, however, as we’re a Microsoft partner, there will be encouragement to gain accreditation during employment.

ATA Wilde is working in the capacity of an Employment Agency for this vacancy.