Senior Azure DevOps Engineer

Parexel Informatics is one of the industry’s leading solution providers and we help customers accelerate the drug development process through innovation. Our product portfolio is built on leading-edge technology and is combined with extensive medical and clinical expertise. As the technology business unit of Parexel International Corporation, we're able to leverage our massive investment in technology with our parent company's wealth of hands-on clinical expertise.

This role is based in our new modern state of the art office in Nottingham city centre which has excellent transport links and has a great working environment and the feel of an innovative technology company.

Job Purpose:

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you’ll build solutions to enhance availability, performance and stability of our cloud services, along with the enabling platform automation and technical services for solution delivery in line with regulatory compliance.

Key Accountabilities:

You will respond to alerts & notifications to investigate issues in our products, working primarily on non-production environments and supporting the release of products into production environments. You will be responsible for monitoring, data collection and configuration management, as well as disaster recovery planning, capacity engineering, reliability improvement initiatives and platform automation. This may require you to work outside of normal business hours providing support to the development and support functions.The role requires evidence of collaborative behaviours that support working in a team with architects, developers, support staff, infrastructure engineers and testers as well as understanding and adhering to the standards defined within the DevOps competency.As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will show creative and innovative problem-solving skills with a willingness to take responsibility for complex issues as they arise. You will understand and set the examples of best practice and standards to develop and implement solutions that operate at scale - seeing your own technology efforts directly improve the reliability and availability of products and achieve the aspiration of “Release on Demand”. You will own development efforts in each sprint from planning to delivery to realise this goal and collaborate with different teams to review, design and implement solutions.As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will be expected to take on more complex activities either as part of a team of other DevOps Engineers or independently. Where in a team you will be expected to promote the behaviours and standards that others aspire to achieve.

SFIA Skills:

Delivery & OperationPrioritises and diagnoses incidents according to agreed procedures.Investigates causes of incidents and seeks resolution.Escalates unresolved incidents.Facilitates recovery, following resolution of incidents.Documents and closes resolved incidents according to agreed procedures.Assesses and analyses release components. Provides input to scheduling. Carries out the builds and tests in coordination with testers and component specialists maintaining and administering the tools and methods – manual or automatic - and ensuring, where possible, information exchange with configuration management. Ensures release processes and procedures are maintained.Development and implementationDesigns, codes, tests, corrects and documents complex programs and scripts from agreed specifications, and subsequent iterations, using agreed standards and tools, to achieve a well engineered result. Takes part in reviews of own work and leads reviews of colleagues' workStrategy & ArchitectureMaintains knowledge of specific specialisms, provides detailed advice regarding their application and executes specialized tasks.QualificationsExperience:

Azure PaaS & IaaS engineering & development experienceMicrosoft Office365 & PowerApps engineering experienceDeep understanding of CI/CD pipeline build, improvement and managementHands on & demonstrable experience with cloud infrastructure: Azure PaaS & IaaS, PowerShell & ARM Template Automation, Software Defined Networking, Virtual machine automation for Windows Server, Linux and associated infrastructure management layer automation.Exposure to and maintenance of configuration management and orchestration toolsUnderstanding in building cloud services within regulated environmentsExperience with the following products: Azure Devops, Octopus Deploy, TeamCity, Jenkins, Puppet, Mercurial, BitBucket, Git, Specflow, nUnit, jUnit. Knowledge of similar products will also be useful.Experience of robust and repeatable automation of non-cloud native products into cloud IaaS typically with Java applications, Oracle and web tiers.Knowledge & Education:Degree in Software Engineering or Computer Science field, or equivalent or has performed at a Systems Engineer or DevOps Engineer for a minimum of 3 yearsMicrosoft Azure Certifications are desirableExcellent knowledge of ITIL V3, Foundation certification is desirableFluent in English both written and oral.

In return we will be able to offer you a structured career pathway and development within the role including awareness and understanding of the industry. Your hard work will be rewarded with a competitive salary and benefits package including 25 days holiday per year, pension scheme, life assurance, long term disability insurance, a health cash plan and other leading edge benefits that you would expect with a company of this type.

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