Job Description:

DevOps Engineer - Azure

Staines (TW18 3DZ) or Manchester (M50 3SP )

Hybrid working options (e.g. up to 3 days WFH)

Permanent

£57,400 - £85,000 plus fantastic benefits and Bonus

Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Here you’ll be welcomed. We champion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. You’ll find an inclusive environment where you can be yourself and where everyone is driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.

At Bupa, we’re passionate about technology. With colleagues, customers, patients and residents in mind you’ll have the opportunity to work on innovative projects and make a real impact on their lives.

Right from the start you’ll become part of our digital strategy, joining us on our journey and developing yourself along the way.

Role Overview

The Cloud Development Operations Engineer (DevOps Engineer) will be responsible for developing and managing the cloud strategy which will include frameworks, standards and toolsets which drive the consistent use of automated cloud based solutions within the Cloud Technology Services team, this will include daily operational tasks, project delivery and development operations.

Enterprise experience in development and overseeing the implementation of cloud automation and integration of toolsets with infrastructure management and development tools. As the DevOps Engineer you will need to be proficient in the field of DevOps, SecDevOps and have leadership skills to mentor, train and manage Infrastructure as Code methodology into a developing function.

The DevOps Engineer will also be a key SME in Cloud Infrastructure as part of the Cloud Technology Service function providing strong technical leadership to reliant development teams, projects and programmes.

What you’ll do:

• Set out process for tooling governance including creating and populating tooling catalogue and mapping to the DevSecOps Tooling Capability Framework.

• Regularly review and assess new and existing tooling choices, whilst maintaining a summary TIME (Tolerate, Invest, Migrate and Eliminate) classification for each tool and instance.

• Identify and implement missing tooling capabilities on the pipeline.

• Create Golden Pathways/Pipelines in Azure DevSecOps for 3 target types: Azure Functions, Container Apps and SPA

• Create Services to assist the onboarding and creation of correct project scaffold in source code.

• Get set of patterns approved for repeatable factory output of Infrastructure components using Infra as Code (IaC) being Azure Functions, Container Apps and SPA

• Look at setting up a SRE function as part of the new Platform Engineering Team.

• Insights and Metrics daily feeds of data from key tool on the DevSecOps toolchain.

• Building CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployments & implementing DevSecOps best practices

• Map Azure Cloud Controls to NIST CSF (Cyber Security Framework) and automate the governance of the azure platform to these standards using IaC templates (Terraform).

• Management of Source Control to SIEM Integration and improvements for Daily Backups of Source Code

• Management SIEM integration from Azure DevOps and pushing to the Skipton SIEM tool. Linked with Insights and Metrics.

• Source control backup management and lifecycle.

• Creating/maintaining knowledge bases and creating training materials and onboarding users onto training platforms to enhance Application Security.

• Launch and nurture new community of practice for APIs and define contextual relationship with Platform Engineering.

What you’ll bring:

• Knowledge and experience of a broad range of technologies or expert in a single technology across infrastructure, servers or complex ecosystem

• Background in integrated services

• Azure or GCP deployment experience

• Experience of CI/CD Methodology and KPI’s

• GIT, Azure DevOps, Ansible and other deployment tool experience is necessary

• Effective communication skills, good team leader, player

• Essential experience in code branching, merging to support releases

• Essential experience of troubleshooting, reporting, fault resolution experience

• Experience of working in Azure DevOps alongside mixed teams including contractors and outsourced vendors

• Other experiences of API, Networking as Code, Logic apps is highly desirable

• Experience of working in agile delivery methods

• Continually develop, suggest, and deliver environment improvements

Why Bupa?

We are a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. We reinvest profits into providing more and better healthcare for the benefit of current and future customers.

Our benefits are driven by what matters to our people. It’s important to us that these benefits support a work-life balance that keeps people healthy, both mentally and physically. You will be eligible for:

• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell

• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind

• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance

• Annual performance-based bonus

• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available

• Various other benefits and online discounts

Diversity and Inclusion

Bupa is committed to making sure that every applicant is assessed solely on personal merit and qualifications. We actively celebrate the diversity of our colleagues and provide an inclusive environment so you can bring your true self to Bupa. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly. That’s why we’re happy to offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

Whether you’ve found your feet or are discovering a new path.

Welcome to a place that celebrates you.

This isn’t where you've been.

This is where you're going.

This is what we have belief in.

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