DevOps Engineer Azure

YourRecruit IT Ltd ,
London, Greater London
Job Type: Full-time

Overview

My client is the world's leading sports and entertainment technology provider They are the secret weapon behind many of the world's best-known sports federations, confederations, leagues and team. They work with companies like FIFA, BT Sports, Channel 4, British Athletics, NFL and the Premier League just to name a few They have won a huge amount of industry awards and have over 16 global offices. Benefits include: working from home, semi-flexible working hours, free refreshments in the office, regular company and team social events, global company with huge growth, death in service, life assurance, 25 days holiday rising to 30 with length of service, training and career development and lots more The DevOps Engineer position: The role is focused primarily within digital operations hosted in Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Alibaba Cloud. They will be responsible of the design of the cloud infrastructure following the architectural pattern defined by the architects with the possibility to contribute to their definition. The Senior Cloud Engineer requires the ability to interact and work very closely with the other members of the DevOps team as well as with the architects. The Senior Cloud Engineer will be part of our ongoing software development and operations, they will be part of the team helping the developers in the continuous integration, deployment, monitoring and testing of the code. We use containerisation, serverless computing and platform-as-a-service offerings from the major cloud vendors to run our services delivering websites and video to audiences on a global scale. My client uses a largely Microsoft based stack including Visual Studio, TFS and Microsoft Azure, however our platforms are designed to run on any cloud solution and dedicated infrastructure. The DevOps Engineer Responsibilities: Design and management of cloud system architectures guaranteeing high availability, top performance and reliability being involved in continuous operation and improvements. Design and management of container-based hosting environments Support to incident and problem management to identify root cause and fix, define and put in place improvements to avoid the problem occurring again Analyse and improve system's performance & scalability and automate systems management. The DevOps Engineer Requirements: Good knowledge of the cloud platform offerings - Azure Experience with systems & services monitoring tools and in log analysis. Understanding of DevOps best practices Experience with microservices architecture Experience with cloud automation and infrastructure provisioning tool Fluency in automating manual jobs using scripting languages (Bash, Python, PowerShell preferred) In addition, any knowledge of Content Distribution Networks (especially Akami), TFS and release management, Docker containers (Kubernetes preferred), Linux server management and Knowledge of NoSQL database (MongoDB preferred) would be a bonus, although not a requirement Sound interesting and something you would love to be part of? Apply today Due to the amount of CVs we receive we will only be able to contact you if your application is successful. YourRecruit(IT) Ltd does not discriminate on the grounds of age, race, gender or disability and complies with all relevant UK legislation. YourRecruit Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.