Senior Software Devops Engineer

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Senior Software DevOps Engineer

Victory House Brighton - Bupa Global, Victory House, Trafalgar Place Brighton, BN1 4FY

Remote & Hybrid Working

Full Time Permanent

£48k-60k per annum

We consider all types of flexibility, including locations, hours and working patterns.

Bupa Global is the international health insurance division of Bupa. We provide customers who want premium international coverage with products and services to access the healthcare they need anytime, around the world, whether at home or when studying, living, travelling or working abroad.

Bupa Global has offices around the world including London and Brighton (UK), Dublin (Europe), Miami (USA), Dubai (UAE, in partnership with OIC), Egypt and Hong Kong (China) as well as regional offices in mainland China, Singapore, the Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Panama, Guatemala and Ecuador.

The role

Working as a senior DevOps engineer, you will work with BG Developers, Testers and the Environments team as well as other MU teams in a collaborative approach to provide technical expertise on applications and infrastructure primarily hosted on Azure platforms utilising ARM.

As a leading technical SME, the main focal point should be on devops automation and forward devops and cloud strategy.

Knowledge of other platforms such as AWS and GCP as well as terraform would be useful for our strategic target model. You will drive higher service performance and availability whilst at the same time exercising good cost control on our devops and azure platforms. Focus on Automation, removing/eliminate manual effort and technical debt.

You will manage CI/CD pipelines across various Non-Production and Production environments and ensure end-to-end consistent/repeatable process.

You'll help us make this happen by

• Focus effectively and with strong prior devops hands-on skills and knowledge to understand the work undertaken and more importantly drive the future work to manage applications and infrastructure hosted on Bupa's Azure platforms

• Drive forward the devops strategy by introducing new features/ways of working with a collaborative approach across teams

• Work through our devops target roadmap and continue to manage our end-to-end automation process

• Manage current/introduce new/relevant tools, technologies and processes for CI/CD framework, source control management, build automation tools and code testing framework (with knowledge on Docker and terraform for future state)

• Provide support services to deliver the required system availability, reliability and performance necessary to underpin business operations.

• You will possess good oral and written communication skills so that you can effectively communicate with all our stakeholders and various teams in a timely coherent manner and be able to work independently

• Work in collaboration with 3rd party software vendors to ensure services meet or exceed their contract obligations.

• Comply with the internal service protocols/policies so that optimum level of security is embedded in all parts of the devops work undertaken.

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role

• Strong hands-on experience of working with DevOps or in a similar multi skilled team in a technically demanding function.

• Fully adept with scripting languages specifically strong PowerShell (mandatory), ARM (mandatory), combined with C#, .NET (mandatory) and ASP.NET (would also be useful have knowledge about Terraform for target state)

• Good technical knowledge/usage of Azure platform (would be useful have knowledge about AWS , Kubernetes, GCP, docker)

• Databases eg. Oracle, SQL-Server, Cosmos

• Good understanding of networking eg. WAF/Azure front-door web application firewall, proxy etc

• Any content Management System, preferably Sitecore and business software eg. Dynamic CRM and Power BI/other analytics tools

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health - from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
• Annual performance-based bonus
• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
• Various other benefits and online discounts

Why Bupa?

We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to "Be you at Bupa", we chion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That's why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

As a Disability Confident employer, we offer a guaranteed interview for every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. We'll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

If you would like more information on the role, require an alternative format, or would like to discuss other opportunities suited to your skills and experience, please contact courtney.wright@bupa.com

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