Senior DevOps Engineer

DevOps / Software Engineer / Azure / Terraform / Docker / Cloud / Leadership / Senior / Greenfield / Innovative 

Disrupt Agency are currently hiring for a Senior DevOps Engineer. The DevOps Engineer role is a critical hire to provide DevOps expertise within a Greenfield Transformational Environment. The Senior DevOps Engineer role will be working for a leading UK Retail business, working on a hybrid basis where you will get together as a team twice per week in the office. 

Essential requirements:

• 5 Years experience + within DevOps
• Azure Cloud and Terraform experience
• Leadership experience (Engaging/collaborating and supporting/developing team members and engaging 3rd party delivery partner)
• Strong communication skills (Engage/win hearts and minds/Articulate technical requirements in a way the business can understand)
• Flexible approach to work and willingness to work outside of core hours during critical go live/troubleshooting phases
• Change motivated, driven to apply expertise and try new ideas/approaches.
• Inquisitive mindset, desire to learn and progress.
• Interested in solving problems and finding solutions

The Role:

• Advocates DevOps culture, tooling, delivery methods as part of a larger cross-functional team
• Ensures a high quality and automated approach to software delivery
• Drives development of fast, clean and reliable code
• Owns the project technical strategy and provides guidance and technical oversight to individual scrum team members (e.g. on the amount of time to accomplish assigned engineering tasks) and is a steward of high code quality
• Plans tasks for self and others, and accountable for their delivery.
• Responsible for understanding business problems and designing, developing / configuring, testing, and deploying software to provide the solution
• Leading other team members and performing quality reviews of the work of other teams
• Working in a growing environment that has/uses Test Driven Development, Agile, and Scrum methodologies
• Contributes to solution architecture discussions
• Understands cloud cost models and can run cloud readiness assessments
• Has knowledge of cloud security and seeks implementation of best practices
• Build trust. integrity and team engagement within the engineering team and other professionals in the company.
• Communicates proficiently and professionally to customers and co-workers.
• Dedicated and willing to follow through with individual and team commitments. 
• Evidence of developing best practice, role modelling and embedding this into the wider engineering team

Working structure:

• Monday to Friday
• Hybrid structure working 2 days each week in the London Office (City/East London)