DevOps Engineer

As part of our digital transformation, Howdens Joinery are recruiting a DevOps Engineer to join us in our office in Northampton in Brackmills Industrial Estate. At the end of 2020, this role will be moving to our new and purpose-built offices in Raunds, Northamptonshire. Working as part of the System Team you will design, develop, test and deploy to improve collaboration and productivity of our development teams by automating infrastructure, automating workflows and continuously measuring and improving application performance. As a DevOps Engineer you will bring your previous experience, best practice and a collaborative attitude to help drive DevOps initiatives. You will also be accountable for the creation, maintenance and deployment of secure, highly available, fault tolerant systems at scale via on-premise and cloud-native architectures for development, testing and production environments. As a DevOps Engineer, you’ll possess a keen mind for solving tough problems, able to understand complex concepts and be an excellent communicator as you’ll need to partner and work effectively with the IT Digital Solutions and software delivery teams. There is a great opportunity for a high performer with a strong desire to implement change, growth, and maturity, within a department that’s fast-paced, dynamic, and quickly growing in all areas. Key skills and experience required: Disciplined programmer with understanding of test-driven development and clean code principles with experience in languages such as Java and .Net C# Experience with infrastructure-as-code and Configuration management tools e.g. Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Azure. Practical experience with containerization and clustering technologies i.e. Docker/Kubernetes. Experience of CI/CD Implementations i.e. Azure DevOps, Jenkins Experience of building automated CI/CD pipelines with tools such as; SonarQube, Fortify, Selenium, etc. High Proficiency in at least one scripting language such as Bash, PowerShell, Python and JavaScript. Experience of monitoring and supporting deployed systems, infrastructure and Azure Cloud components through the use tools such as AppDynamics. Understanding of monitoring tools (Pagerduty, CloudWatch, Datadog, Sentry,etc) Fluency in Azure CLI and Azure Cloud Shell/Azure Power Shell Solid understanding of Cloud; including security, cloud fault tolerant solutions and resilience. Howdens Joinery is a highly successful business, with more than 700 depots nationwide and more than 10,000 staff. Last year our sales reached circa £1.5 billion and we continue to experience significant growth and success. Despite our scale, Howdens remains a local business with traditional values. We have a very competitive salary and benefits package including 25 days holiday, company bonus and pension, free refreshments and snacks, onsite car parking, great social events and a friendly and supportive working environment. As well as the opportunity to develop within a high-profile FTSE 250 company , you will be part of a rewarding organisation recognised for excellence in the workplace in the Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For .