Azure Devops Engineer – Platform Engineer – York (Hybrid / remote)

#TeamCandour are on the hunt for an accomplished Azure Devops Engineer / Platform Engineer to join a thriving financial services player out of their stunning offices in York on hybrid basis – they are looking for 2 days office attendance per week.

Key Responsibilities:

• Create and maintain the pipelines for publishing code to Azure
• Oversee and coach squads in intra-day deployments mechanisms
• As part of the chapter drive the DevOps principles and culture across London Market
• squads
• With the aid of the chapter, coach and influence engineers to DevOps maturity
• Oversee and direct the vendor DevOps and Infrastructure resources
• Create and maintain Azure infrastructure across all environments
• Propose and implement time-saving initiatives
• Create and maintain monitoring at all levels (infrastructure, app, data)
• Monitor issues and availability and ensure the correct escalation path is followed
• Monitor performance and propose improvements
• Implement auto-scaling of resources to meet the needs of the moment
• Help to commoditise cloud services where possible
• Identify engineering limits, bottlenecks and tipping points before they’re reached

The skills you’ll need:

• Experience of working as an engineer, working on solutions in Azure.
• Experience with Terraform and Azure Resource Management Templates
• Experience setting up and working with Azure DevOps pipelines
• Knowledge of Cloud native, microservices, containerized systems, preferably with
• Kubernetes
• To have a strong desire for continuous improvement and an Agile way of working
• Sound experience in identifying, implementing and maintaining IT solutions /
• systems in regulated markets / industries
• Knowledge and understanding of latest trends in DevOps methodologies, processes
• and tools, as well as emerging solutions and ability to apply them when appropriate

If you’re curious and want to learn more about what could be the next step in your career, reach out anytime and we can arrange