Lead DevOps Engineer

Bradley David Associates are looking to recruit a Lead DevOps Engineer to join our client’s established team in London.

As a Lead DevOps Engineer you will work within an infrastructure team to implement and support the platform underpinning critical services.

 

Job Summary:

• Based in London
• Monday to Friday
• Permanent Contract

 

Responsibilites:

The key responsibilities of the Lead DevOps Engineer role include:

• Infrastructure as code – fully automating deployments end-to-end.
• Planning, implementing and maintenance of infrastructure security.
• Network design and administration including peering, NSGs, routing and micro segmentation.
• Implementing and maintaining the continuous delivery pipelines for distributed systems.
• Integrating and maintaining, logging, monitoring, and alerting platform (Live and Synthetic).
• Planning, implementing and maintenance of network infrastructure, including vWAN, Application Gateways, CDN and WAF.
• Managing and supporting the production and development environments, applications, and Pipelines.
• Working with operating systems, network infrastructure, Azure DBs, Azure Container Apps, container registries, multi-az/multi-region, HA deployments etc.
• Support engineering teams with exposure to Infrastructure as code.
• Assist with support and maintenance of applications hosted in Azure.
• Be part of on call out of hours support team.

 

Skills Required:

The key skills needed for the role include:

• Advanced Azure Skills, Native VMs, Container Services, Application Gateway, APIM, DevOps pipelines, best practice security – at least 4 years of experience in a production setting.
• BiCep Infrastructure as code – at least 2 years of experience in production setting.
• Advanced level of understanding of Docker, build optimisation, image management and deployment processes.
• Advanced experience with deploying user and system managed identities, service principals and service connections via code.
• Familiarity with Linux OS, PostgreSQL and Azure Cosmos.
• Experience in scripting languages (Bash, Python, Ansible, Terraform, Powershell etc.).
• Knowledge of JavaScript (Node.JS) and/or Go.
• Experience with Azure Resource Manager Template.
• Experience of securely managing SSL Certificates lifecycles (automation, renewal, bindings etc).
• Experience of authentication technologies (LDAP, EntraID, Azure B2C etc).
• A willingness to learn and contribute to the team.
• Strong communication, planning and troubleshooting skills with a strong sense of ownership.
• Knowledge of network routing protocols, SD-WAN, Private DNS.
• Knowledge of Continuous Deployment practices (Azure DevOps/TFS, GitHub).
• Knowledge of Agile practices.
• Knowledge of Azure API Manager and Azure App Services.
• Knowledge of Qualys security tooling for container and registry scanning.

If you are interested and have the relevant experience please click apply to be contacted by a member of the team. You can also text your full name + 'BDA1' to 07903 557270