Senior DevOps Engineer

Waracle are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer  for an exciting new role joining our world-class digital technology consultancy and home to a diverse, smart, curious and ambitious community of specialists in technology-driven transformation.

We work with ambitious clients to help them solve their biggest business and customer challenges. We help our clients to innovate and create intelligent digital products and services. We thrive on complex challenges and deliver business-critical IT transformation projects, moving seamlessly from strategy, design and delivery to operations.

This is a hybrid role working from any Waracle office (Dundee, Glasgow, Edinburgh or London) at least 2 days per week. 

As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will drive continuous integration and delivery practices, optimise cloud infrastructure, and champion best practices across our digital projects. You'll play a pivotal role in shaping the  technical direction and mentoring our talented engineers. You'll be instrumental in defining and implementing the strategies that ensure applications are built, tested, and deployed with unparalleled speed, reliability, and security. 

You’ll be expected to:

• Design, implement, and maintain robust continuous integration and delivery pipelines for various applications, optimising for efficiency and reliability.

• Take the lead in setting up and managing infrastructure using modern infrastructure-as-code principles and tools.

• Develop and manage secure API gateways, load balancers, and advanced networking components to ensure optimal performance and protection.

• Contribute to architectural decisions, capacity planning, and disaster recovery strategies, providing technical leadership and expertise.

• Design and implement robust identity and access management solutions to secure application access and ensure data integrity.

• Work closely with development and quality assurance teams to streamline build, test, and deployment processes, fostering a culture of efficiency and shared ownership.

• Engage with clients to proficiently extract complex requirements, manage expectations, and effectively communicate technical solutions and value propositions.

• Thrive in a fast-paced environment, adapting to changing project requirements, technologies, and timelines, and taking on leadership responsibilities when needed.

• Foster a collaborative environment, communicate complex ideas clearly, and actively mentor and coach team members to achieve collective goals.

Skills and Experience Required

• Demonstrated experience in designing, deploying, and managing infrastructure and applications on Azure.

• Experience building CI/CD pipelines for mobile applications (familiarity with Native applications preferred).

• Proven commercial experience with other cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.

• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, ARM, or Bicep).

• Hands-on experience with containerisation tools and platforms such as Docker or Kubernetes.

• Knowledge of API integrations and managing secure API endpoints.

• Proficiency in scripting and automation (PowerShell, Bash, Python).

• Proactive individual who actively seeks to expand knowledge and keep up with industry trends. 

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to understand complex requirements and offer comprehensive solutions.

The recruitment process you can expect for this role is an initial call with your dedicated Talent Acquisition Partner who will chat with you about Waracle, what you are looking for in a new position, the salary for the role, notice period and benefits (the important stuff!). After that, you'll be invited to a 3 stage interview process where you have an opportunity to find out more about the role and showcase your skills and experience. Your Talent Acquisition Partner will guide you through the whole process to your first day with us.

We have various events, days out, competitions and incentives throughout the year and here are some other benefits you can expect as permanent team member at Waracle:

• 🏡Flexible and Hybrid working

• 🏖35 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays)

• 💸Matched Pension up to 5%

• 🤒Medicash Proactive Health Cover

• 🧘‍♀️Health and Wellbeing Support through Unum

• 📈Access to 1000s Personal Development Courses

• 🏥Group Life and Sickness Cover

• 🍼Enhanced parental leave

• 🤑Access to exclusive savings and discounts on top brands

Plus many more!

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age