
Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer
- Londonderry
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Provide timely and effective response to incidents to minimise the impact on our customers and keep colleagues updated as required.
- Work with development teams to advise and contribute to improvements to operational stability, security, cost management and reporting requirements for our cloud solutions.
- Continually develop and improve DevOps processes, adding value through optimisation, automation and effective reporting.
- Oversee relevant Cloud deployments to ensure successful implementation, track and report progress, resolve or escalate release issues.
- Proactively manage cloud environments to minimise service impacting issues, including infrastructure as code, certificates, storage, health status, backup status etc.
- Ensure new services meet required operational readiness standards before being accepted into operations.
- Ensure on-going compliance to security practices and policies.
- Provide subject matter expertise to business stakeholders as required.
- Maintain clear and accurate operational documentation.
- Stay current on security industry trends, tools and best practices.
- At least 5 years of experience in software development or DevOps/SRE, with at least 3 years focused on cloud environments.
- Strong programming skills in languages such as C#, Go, Node.js or Java.
- Expertise in cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
- Proficient in containerization technologies like Docker or Kubernetes.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or GitHub.
- Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
- Knowledge and experience of operational support, software development and deployment methodologies and principles.
- Knowledge of PowerShell or Node.js scripting.
- Knowledge of API, REST, microservices and serverless architectures.
- Deep understanding of cloud security, networking, and storage solutions.
- Willingness to learn cloud security principles, practices and tools.
- Strong written, verbal and presentation skills, able to convey information clearly and concisely to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Excellent analysis and dissemination skills.
- Attention to detail, diligent and tenacious.
- Experience of Azure Service Operator (ASO), Helm and GitOps practices.
- Knowledge of cloud trends, best practices, and emerging technologies.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple project simultaneously.
- Hands-on experience working within an Information Security accredited framework e.g. ISO27001, 27017/18.
- Experience working in Agile software development such as Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).