AddressAt Manchester Met, we're looking to supplement our Cloud Operations Team with a Senior Azure DevOps Engineer. We're offering a competitive salary along with 35 days annual leave per year (plus Bank Holidays) along with a Christmas shutdown period (which is complimentary and can change every year). We also offer a very competitive workplace pension contribution as well as access to our entire Library and other on-site resources.
Do you thrive in a busy working environment?
Do you like variety in your work?
Do you like working with like-minded colleagues who share your interests?
Do you like working in a hybrid model? Currently we work to a model of 2 days in the office, 3 days at home.
Do you like working in a modern office environment in the very centre of Manchester?
Are you interested in all things Azure? Would you like the opportunity to improve your understanding and training in that space?
Do you have a background in supporting software developers in their DevOps workflows?
If so, read on for more detailed requirements. Even if you don't meet all these requirements, feel free to apply in any case.
Role Profile:
Essential Skills and Experience:
- Working with software engineering teams within Azure DevOps.
- Previous experience in a similar role, championing Cloud Operations, DevOps and SRE principles, approaches and best practices.
- Strong planning and organisational skills, including the ability to manage several workstreams simultaneously, balancing business priorities and quality.
- Strong experience with Azure DevOps CI/CD Pipelines (or equivalent tooling).
- Experience of working within an Agile working environment.
- Excellent experience using Azure in a broad sense.
- Provisioning of Azure hosted databases.
- Working with a hybrid Azure tenant with some infrastructure in physical data centres and the complexities there-in.
- Working across multiple software engineering teams with varying levels of ability within them.
- Documenting your knowledge of environments and individual systems as you acquire it over time, creating runbooks and ensuring critical system information is readily available to colleagues across the business.
- An eagerness to learn and the ability to instil this in others.
- AZ-104 at a minimum level of Azure qualification (or an older MCSE Cloud Architect qualification).
- AZ-400 as a qualification or can demonstrate working towards that.
Desirable Skills and Experience
- Enterprise Agreement, Tenant and Subscription management.
- Experience in rearchitecting VMWare-based services to Azure native services. This is not essential to the role but is something carried out in the wider team so experience here is valuable.
- Demonstrable skills in PowerShell (in the context of Azure) are a bonus.
- Demonstrable skills in Bash shell scripting for Azure is a bonus.
- AZ-305 is a desirable qualification to have.
- AZ-400 fully qualified.
- A good understanding of the Cloud Adoption Framework and Landing Zone concepts. Actual experience highly desirable.
We are not looking for:
- Expert coders or developers.
- Somebody who feels they cannot work in a small Operations team and with a wider group of software engineering teams.
- Somebody who cannot work within an evolving organisational environment including newly set processes and methods that may well change over time.
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