Junior DevOps Engineer

This is an exciting opportunity to join one of our platform engineering teams which is responsible for supporting development squads working on Claims, a major project in IT Delivery, in which you will be working on bespoke infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.

The Junior DevOps Engineer aims to immerse themselves into the platform engineering squad and supporting the value stream, providing clear and concise input to agile ceremonies. The Junior DevOps Engineer will pay close attention to the viewpoints of Product Owner and Squad Lead, seeing their perspective and adapting accordingly.

The Junior DevOps Engineer is responsible for fulfilling their objectives, actively seeking to improve their technical and other knowledge skills focusing on CI/CD and Cloud engineering. The Junior Engineer learns to embody the core cultural values at the heart of Admiral's success.

Main Duties

You will be working in our Claims spoke platform engineering team responsible for provisioning and maintaining the platform supporting the Agile Release Trains in the Value Stream under the guidance of Senior DevOps Engineers, supporting the software engineers by automating all aspects of the SDLC through CI/CD and contributing to the delivery of the DevOps and Cloud capability’s strategy.

As part of this your main duties will comprise of:

• Delivering Infrastructure as Code using Terraform to meet the Value Streams requirements.
• Applying specific quality standards to all tasks undertaken to ensure that deliverables are accurate and complete.
• Documenting all work using required standards, methods, and tools.
• Taking an automation first approach to CI/CD.
• Having a passion for learning best practices for Cloud Engineering.
• Applies agreed standards and tools as required, to achieve a well-engineered result.
• Reviews own work. May be involved in peer review activities such as pair programming.

This is not a full definition of the role but covers the main aspects and drivers for success.

Experience Required:

Essential

• Working knowledge of Cloud technologies such as Azure and GCP.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD concepts and using tools such as Jenkins/Azure DevOps.
• Knowledge of version control systems such as Git.

Desirable

• Knowledge of managing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Experience using Azure DevOps for CI/CD.
• Experience working with Azure.
• Experience working with Azure managed services, e.g. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Experience of Azure Security Tooling such as JFrog, SonarQube.
• Understanding of Agile Scrum methodology and practices.
• Working knowledge/experience with Java.

Location

For Hybrid workers (within a 50-mile radius of our Cardiff HQ) there is an expectation to work from the office twice a month.  For remote workers (outside of a 50-mile radius of our Cardiff HQ) there is an expectation to attend the office a handful of times a year when required (i.e big meetings, workshops etc).

Interview Process

There will be an online test and a MS Teams interview.

Salary, Benefits and Work-Life Balance

We do not have a set salary for this position, as it will be dependent on the successful candidate’s experience. We are happy to see CVs from all candidates who meet the requirements and will be happy to discuss the remuneration package.

At Admiral, we are proud to be a diverse business where we put our people and customers first. We have great benefits to ensure employees have a great work-life balance; it's one of the reasons we’re consistently voted one of the Sunday Times Best Big Companies to work for in the UK. We want you to have an element of freedom to define a working lifestyle that supports this, so accommodate flexible hours wherever possible.

All colleagues will receive 33 days holiday (including banks holidays) when they join us, and this will increase with length of service, up to a maximum of 38 days (including banks holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to five days of annual leave in addition to your allocation.

You can also view some of our other key benefits here.

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