Senior DevOps Engineer

Description

The company is a global, AI-first tech firm with 25+ years of engineering leadership, 2,000+ staff and 500+ active projects for Fortune 500 clients.

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+ people across audit, tax, consulting and advisory.

You will work with the Development, DevSecOps and Cyber teams to bring Microsoft DevOps practices, principles and culture into an Azure-hosted setup. You will be the go-to expert on application design, infrastructure, monitoring and GitHub pipeline work, guiding engineers to build secure software and add security controls within Agile delivery.

Stack: Azure Cloud, microservices,.NET 8, ASP.NET Core, Python, Mongo, Azure SQL, Angular 18, Kendo, GitHub Enterprise with Copilot.

Responsibilities

• Build and run CI/CD pipelines on GitHub Actions, with a strong focus on custom workflows and actions, plus automation tools and frameworks. Azure DevOps projects make up a smaller part.
• Put database infrastructure and automation at the centre of your strategy for collaboration, code, infrastructure, source control, security, compliance, testing, delivery, monitoring and feedback.
• Help set up and configure Azure SQL, MongoDB Atlas and PostgreSQL (planned) in line with Microsoft best practices.
• Work day to day with application and asset teams so secure coding and secure design are built in across the firm, supporting the SSDLC, including functional and non-functional cybersecurity and database requirements.
• Coach application teams on database services, cybersecurity, DevOps, Agile engineering, quality engineering and requirement capture to make end-to-end delivery more secure.
• Watch systems, find performance bottlenecks and fix them before they cause trouble.
• Write and maintain design and troubleshooting documents.
• 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 checks.
• Programming in one or more of: Java,.NET, Terraform, Python, Visual Basic, PowerShell, Bash, C++, C, Django, JavaScript, YAML, HTML, CSS, etc.
• Hands-on experience with containers, orchestration and cloud infrastructure management, such as infrastructure as code, immutable infrastructure and configuration as code.
• Experience with Azure SQL and Mongo is required.
• A background in Kubernetes (AKS) and Linux is required.
• Deep knowledge of Azure cloud services, including Azure SQL, Azure Service Bus, Azure Redis, Key Vaults and Azure Storage, is required.
• Understanding of network architecture and services, such as VPN, routing, firewalls and NSGs.
• Knowledge of source code management (code lines, branching, merging, integration, versioning), and proficiency in Git is a must.
• Ability to map the traditional SDLC (plan, code, build, test, release, deploy, monitor) onto agile phases when automating security tasks.
• You can build CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps.
• Azure certifications, e.g. Azure DevOps Engineer Expert and Azure Administrator Associate.
• English at intermediate level.