reporting to the head of Head of Environments, Platforms and IT Security, the role is a key hire to ensure customer facing technology works well and is secure, enterprise applications hosted on Azure and in the co-location datacentre are up to date and fit-for purpose, and looking to the future through innovation and improving ways of working.
The technology capability has undergone a remarkable change in the last few years with transformation involving End User Computing embracing Office 365 and our hosting and development tools moving into Microsoft Azure.
The role will work in both our Azure Native environment and co-location data centre. A significant proportion of there line of business applications remain hosted on Hyper-V based Private Cloud and will need to be “fed and watered” until they are moved to new platforms or technologies, a task that this role will assist with. These migrations offer the role holder learning and development opportunities.
There Azure environment is almost exclusively “Azure native” primarily hosting our Digital Product using technologies including Azure App Services, Azure SQL, Application Insights, Sentinel, Log Analytics, Azure Data Factory, with “as code” Bicep pipelines tied to Azure DevOps.
- Ideally, you have 3+ years of experience working in a similar role.
- You are proficient in reliability, scalability, performance, security, toil reduction, and other site reliability best practices.
- You have previous or current experience working with Azure (or another cloud platform, such as AWS).
- You have a deep understanding of security principles and how to keep large operational services secure.
- You have a strong understanding of DevOps/DevSecOps, including experience of Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines, such as Azure DevOps.
- You have experience working with Windows Servers, SQL databases and Networking infrastructure (Routing/Switching, VLANs, Firewalls, and Load Balancers).
- You are familiar with Agile project management practices.
- You have experience in proactively monitoring live services, troubleshooting issues and implementing service improvements.
- You understand the importance of adherence to Payment Card Industry (PCI-DSS) requirements.
- You are comfortable setting up component logging and configuring monitoring tools and providing on- call support, escalation/paging and managing incidents.
This is a perm role to £55k, suit a person looking to grow into the skill sets required.
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