Senior DevOps Engineer

Description

The company is an AI-first global tech firm with 25+ years of engineering leadership, 2,000+ team members and 500+ active projects. It serves Fortune 500 clients, including HBO, Microsoft, Google and Starbucks.

Its work covers AI platforms and digital transformation, delivered alongside enterprise leaders.

The client is one of the Big Four accounting firms and the largest professional services network in the world. Headquartered in London, it operates in 150+ countries with 460,000+ professionals across audit, tax, consulting and advisory.

In this role you will work with the Development, DevSecOps and Cyber teams to bring Microsoft best practices, principles, processes and DevOps culture into an Azure-hosted environment. You will be the subject matter expert on application design, infrastructure, monitoring and GitHub pipeline development, leading engineering teams to build secure software and put security controls in place in an Agile setting.

Tech stack: Azure Cloud, microservices architecture,.NET 8, ASP.NET Core services, Python, Mongo, Azure SQL, Angular 18, Kendo, and GitHub Enterprise with Copilot.

Responsibilities

• Work day to day with application and asset teams so secure coding and secure design processes are built into delivery across the organisation.
• Support the Secure Systems Development Lifecycle, including functional and non-functional cybersecurity and database requirements.
• Design and implement strategies for collaboration, code, infrastructure, source control, security, compliance, continuous integration, testing, delivery, monitoring and feedback, with a strong focus on database infrastructure and automation.
• Promote DB services, cybersecurity, DevOps and Agile engineering procedures, quality engineering practices and better requirements capture to improve secure delivery end to end.
• Manage GitHub Actions pipelines, focusing on custom flows and actions, plus a smaller amount of Azure DevOps project work. Build automation tools and frameworks for CI/CD pipelines.
• Help set up and configure Azure SQL, MongoDB Atlas and PostgreSQL (planned for the future) following Microsoft best practices.
• Monitor systems, find performance bottlenecks and fix them proactively.
• Write and maintain design and troubleshooting documentation.
• Train and support internal teams, peers and stakeholders.
• Plan disaster recovery and keep data storage in Azure secure.

Requirements

• Extensive professional experience in DevOps and software engineering.
• Hands-on work with secure CI/CD pipelines, mainly GitHub Actions and Flows, plus ALM tools that automate security requirement checks.
• Programming skills in one or more of: Java,.Net, Terraform, Python, Visual Basic, PowerShell, Bash, C++, C, Django, JavaScript, YAML, HTML, CSS and similar languages.
• Practical experience with containers, orchestration and cloud infrastructure management, such as infrastructure as code, immutable infrastructure and configuration as code.
• Understanding and experience with Azure SQL and Mongo is required.
• Background in Kubernetes (AKS) and Linux is required.
• Expertise in Azure cloud services such as Azure SQL, Azure ServiceBus, Azure Redis, KeyVaults and Azure Storage is required.
• Understanding of network architectures and services, such as VPN, routing, firewalls and NSGs.
• Knowledge of source code management concepts (code lines, branching, merging, integration, versioning). Proficiency in Git is a must.
• Ability to map the traditional SDLC (plan, code, build, test, release, deploy, monitor) onto agile phases when writing software that automates security tasks.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipeline creation in Azure DevOps.
• Azure certifications such as Azure DevOps Engineer Expert and Azure Administrator Associate.
• English at intermediate level.