Senior DevOps Engineer BTG

This is an exciting opportunity to join a multi-skilled agile team in the Customer value stream within IT Delivery, in which you will be part of the platform team supporting applications which help customers to service their Admiral products.

The Senior DevOps Engineer is responsible for the advanced processes of architecting, implementing, and maintaining our cloud-based and on-premises infrastructure along with the CI/CD Pipelines. Senior DevOps Engineer provide support to DevOps Engineers in performing the above listed processes. We are looking for an enthusiastic, inquisitive, and experienced individual, who can think creatively to solve problems and meet technical requirements. You must have a keen interest and good knowledge in cloud engineering and be ready to research, learn, and advise new tools, technologies and patterns as required.

The Senior DevOps Engineer will actively participate in Agile Ceremonies and Technical Meetings to provide technical expertise relating to DevOps and Cloud Engineering.

The Senior DevOps Engineer will take an evangelistic approach, consisting of agile practices, processes, and procedures designed to facilitate rapid IT service and product delivery. DevOps emphasizes people (and culture) and seeks to improve collaboration between development (Dev) and operations (Ops) teams with the aim of shortening the systems development life cycle to provide continuous release of high-quality software.

Main duties:

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 and demonstrating best practices for Cloud Engineering.
• Proposing and applying agreed standards and tools as required, to achieve a well-engineered result.
• Improving, supporting, and maintaining existing solutions and identifying/remediating technical debt.
• Contributing to improvements of our technical excellence and ways of working within Squad, Chapter and Guild forums.
• Active participation in Squad, Chapter and Guild forums
• Ensure other engineers code adheres to standards and providing reviews on that code.
• Takes ownership of Squad's active investigations and tasks to ensure quality of work and speed of resolution.
• Providing Security Reviews for newly developed infrastructure patterns.
• Ensuring deliverables adhere to our alerting, monitoring, and logging strategy.
• Be a knowledge expert on Cloud and DevOps Engineering and provide advice and support when required.

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

Essential Skills

• Experience using CI/CD concepts and using tools such as Jenkins/Azure
• Experience in automation scripting and using languages such as python/bash/ruby.
• DevOps Experience working with GCP
• Experience working with GKE and Anthos
• Experience of managing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Experience of version control systems such as Git
• Understanding of Agile Scrum methodology and practices.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience using Azure DevOps for CI/CD
• Experience working with MemoryStore, Networking, Secret Manager, IAM
• Experience of Security Tooling such as Checkov, Nexus IQ and other cloud-specific security tools
• Experience in using GitOps tools such as ArgoCD
• Understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices
• Understanding of cost and budget requirements for GKE
• Understanding of Network concepts.

Interview Process

There will be a two-stage process for this vacancy; one online test and one 60-minute interview via MS Teams.

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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