DevOps Engineer - 2 Days Peterborough/3 Remote
Job description
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Our client is a leading business in its field and at the beginning of a major business transformation covering people, process and technology. They have the ambition to double their revenue by maximizing existing business streams and entering new markets.
To enable this, The Technology and Data function is evolving with a restructure, new roles, and upskilling existing ones. Part of their transition is to a DevSecOps environment and are now looking for an Azure DevOps engineer to assist. This will be working with the Head of Engineering & Platform to deploy and monitor software products.
A major part of the role will be to assist the department to transition them from on-premise to Cloud (Azure in this case but AWS experience fine). It is not essential that you have this experience but would be highly useful.
Core key skills:
- Azure DevOps (Repos, Pipelines, Boards, Artifacts, Test Plans) - Essential
- CI/CD automation, gated releases, and environment governance e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI - Essential
- Infrastructure-as-Code (Bicep, ARM, Terraform) - Essential
- DevOps in a C# environment
- Containerisation (Docker, AKS) and serverless (Azure Functions) - Essential
- Monitoring and observability (Application Insights, Log Analytics) - Essential
- Secrets management and vulnerability scanning (Key Vault, SonarQube, OWASP) - Essential
- Experience of setting/spinning up new Infrastructure in Cloud - Essential
- Experience of migrating services from on-premise to Cloud - Highly Desirable (to AWS is fine)
This is an exciting time to join this forward thinking successful business to help them scale and modernise working practices with a new tech stack
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⭐ Highlight your Azure DevOps expertise prominently as the role specifically requires Repos, Pipelines, Boards, Artifacts, and Test Plans
📊 Quantify your cloud migration experience: 'Migrated 12 services from on-premise to Azure, reducing deployment time by 60%'
🌐 Emphasise Infrastructure-as-Code skills with Bicep, ARM, or Terraform as these are essential requirements
🎯 Showcase your CI/CD automation experience with specific tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI
🤝 Demonstrate your containerisation knowledge with Docker and AKS as these are core to the role
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- •Implemented Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for 8 C# microservices, reducing deployment time from 45 minutes to 12 minutes
- •Migrated 15 on-premise applications to Azure using Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform, achieving 99.9% uptime
- •Established containerisation strategy with Docker and AKS for 6-person development team, improving scalability by 40%
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Dear Hiring Manager,
Zenzo Digital's ambitious business transformation and transition to DevSecOps presents exactly the challenge I'm seeking in my next role. With extensive experience in Azure DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform and Bicep, I'm well-positioned to support your cloud migration initiative.
My background in CI/CD automation and containerisation with Docker and AKS aligns perfectly with your technical requirements. I have successfully led similar on-premise to cloud transitions, implementing monitoring solutions with Application Insights and establishing robust security practices with Key Vault and vulnerability scanning.
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Interview questions
10 questions generated from this advert.
Technical
- ›How would you design a CI/CD pipeline for a C# application using Azure DevOps?
- ›Explain the difference between ARM templates, Bicep, and Terraform for Infrastructure-as-Code
- ›How would you implement monitoring and observability for microservices in Azure?
- ›Describe your approach to migrating on-premise services to Azure cloud
- ›How would you set up secrets management and vulnerability scanning in a DevSecOps environment?
Behavioural
- ›Tell me about a time when you had to lead a major infrastructure transformation
- ›Describe a situation where you had to troubleshoot a critical deployment failure
- ›How do you handle competing priorities when managing multiple cloud migration projects?
- ›Tell me about a time when you had to learn a new technology quickly to meet project demands
- ›Describe how you've collaborated with development teams to improve deployment processes
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Tell me about a time when you had to lead a major infrastructure transformation
Describe a situation where you had to troubleshoot a critical deployment failure