Role & Responsibilities:

• Building and setting up development tools and infrastructure
• Understand the needs of project stakeholders and convey this to developers
• Automate and improve development and release processes
• Ensure that systems are safe and secure against cyber security threats
• Identify technical problems and develop software updates and solutions
• Work with software developers and engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended

Candidate Requirements:

Essential skills

• Experience of working and deploying with cloud technologies: AWS or Azure including infrastructure as code e.g. Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Ansible etc.
• Experience in building and deploying large-scale applications in Continuous Integration/Delivery pipelines;
• Experience of using container platform and orchestration systems ECS, AKS, Kubernetes/helm/Docker
• Experience of source code management e.g. Git
• Knowledge of automation, integration tools such as Jenkins, Concourse CI or cloud equivalents
• Proficiency in scripting languages
• Experience of working in an Agile/SCRUM/DevOps delivery model

Desirable skills of interest

• Professional Scrum Qualification or equivalent experience

Good behaviours

• Good interpersonal skills for customer and partner liaison
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Good time management, organisation and prioritisation skills
• An inquisitive mind and a desire to promote innovation
• A desire to learn and constantly expand your horizons
• Ability to work closely with others in a small team
• Ability to work under pressure
• High degree of initiative and flexibility
• Willingness to travel if required
• Ability to work independently towards non-specific strategic goals