Zachary Daniels Recruitment is delighted to be working with this global leader in delivering animal health solutions with the appointment of a Principal Dev Ops Engineer to join their ever expanding business.

Job Details:

• Provide strategic direction for Azure DevOps practices across multiple engineering squads.
• Have proven experience designing and implementing cloud architectures
• Coach and mentor engineers, providing technical guidance to the Engineering teams, nurturing a collaborative and innovative environment.
• Act as a design authority, ensuring that all new DevOps initiatives align with the overall strategic vision to best serve the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with engineering squads to design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines.
• Ensure design/change (DevOps) and execution is aligned and working to best practices around scalability, security, and reliability of the DevOps infrastructure.
• Enable engineering teams with standardisation and knowledge sharing od DevOps resources.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and automation.
• Stay up to date with industry trends and advancements in DevOps practices and Azure services.
• Lead technical discussions and review sessions to ensure alignment and adherence to DevOps standards.
• Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies, and processes to enhance the DevOps workflow.

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We're looking for people with the following skills:

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in DevOps, with at least 5 years focusing on Azure DevOps as an engineer, technical lead, architect or other related technical cloud-focused role.
• Experience working with Microsoft Azure with knowledge of cloud-native services (Azure DNS, Application Gateway, Azure SQL Server, App Services, Blob Storage, Load Balancer, WAF) and best-practices for working with technology.
• An understanding of technologies that underpin a DevOps approach to cloud transformation and management, including but not exclusive to, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Containerisation and Orchestration, CI/CD.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or ARM templates.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as PowerShell, Python, or Bash.
• Deep knowledge of containerization technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Excellent understanding of networking principles (IP addressing, virtual networks, network security and networking models).
• Understanding of observability and site-reliability principles (SLO's, SLI's) and working with engineering teams to improve the applications and platform.
• Good understanding of SQL and working with relational databases.
• Experience working in a production environment to support, operate and maintain applications.
• Experience working with logging tools (e.g. Log Analytics, Datadog) and monitoring (e.g. Azure Monitor) and application performance management tools (we use New Relic).
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and guide engineering teams.
• Proven track record of leading and delivering complex DevOps projects.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
• Relevant certifications such as Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, Azure Solutions Architect, or similar are a plus.

Ideally you will also have:

• Some knowledge of common programming languages (Java, Javascript, Go).
• An understanding of data engineering infrastructure, data processing and presentation.
• Experience of Cyber Security Essentials or similar certification.
• Experience in vulnerability management (e.g. Phishing, social engineering, malware etc.).
• Experience of single sign-on products (e.g. Auth Zero, SAP Gigya).

Please note that this role is fully remote and we can only consider candidates currently operating within the United Kingdom.

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