DevOps Engineer
A senior, hands-on DevOps engineer on a 12-month fixed-term contract at Isio, a pensions and wealth advisory firm, working hybrid from its Birmingham office. They build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines and Azure cloud infrastructure using Terraform, C#/.NET, Docker/Kubernetes, and support the firm's AI adoption.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Birmingham, UK, UK
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 5+ years hands-on experience with Azure Cloud Platform (AWS/GCP not applicable), covering a broad range of Azure resource types
- 3+ years development experience with the Microsoft ecosystem (C#, .NET, ARM)
- Strong experience maintaining CI/CD pipelines; GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps Pipelines strongly preferred
- Strong experience with Terraform
- Hands-on experience with codebases of varied high-level architecture patterns (monoliths, microservices)
- Knowledge of containerisation and container orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Exposure to messaging queues (Azure Service Bus preferred) and asynchronous architectures
- Knowledge of serverless technologies; Azure Functions preferred
- Experience with structured and unstructured data; MSSQL Server and Azure Cosmos preferred
- Experience creating and updating documentation
- Demonstrable experience handling multiple internal and external stakeholders
- Demonstrable experience using modern cloud design patterns with loosely coupled architectures
- Demonstrable priority and time management, including time-sensitive projects
- Exposure to multi-year, multi-phase development projects involving multiple technologies
- Hands-on experience of Agile/Scrum ways of working
- Comfortable demonstrating solutions to senior stakeholders
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, verbal and written
Nice to have
- Knowledge of AI and AI development tools
- Development experience with Python
- Professional development skills certifications (Azure or similar)
- Experience building integrations to third-party SaaS products
- Experience with virtualisation technologies
- Experience with cloud networking
- Understanding of private equity business models
Full description
DevOps Engineer - 12 months fixed term contract
A DevOps engineer is a senior technical role within our organisation. They design and maintain automated build and deployment pipelines, manage cloud infrastructure environments, and support with application maintenance.
Working within the Microsoft ecosystem, this role involves collaborating with stakeholders, developers, and business change to ensure solutions are provisioned to the required specifications, whilst also being mindful of broader strategic initiatives. This role will also involve guiding developers through technical decisions and ensuring best practices are followed throughout the development lifecycle.
Although this position encompasses many aspects, this role requires being hands-on day to day to ensure project delivery and technical excellence. This is a great opportunity for someone wanting to broaden their career, being in an autonomous role whilst still working from the front line.
This role is a fixed term contract for 12 months, based in our Birmingham city centre office with a hybrid workstyle. There will be occasional travel to other offices.
What does the role entail?
- Supporting Isio’s broader development strategy, with a particular focus on infrastructure delivery and documentation. All utilising modern development standards & DevOps processes such as Infrastructure-as-code (IaC) with Terraform.
- Refining Isio’s existing DevOps processes and ensuring they are consistently implemented across all projects.
- Working with our Lead Developers to support and implement agreed ways of working processes relating to development.
- Collaborating with multiple teams consisting of internal and external members, based geographically throughout the UK and Europe.
- Supporting Isio’s automated testing strategy to speed up delivery and ensure development quality is of a high standard.
- Engaging with leaders across Isio to reinforce understanding of requirements and solution designs, then implementing them in the most effective manner.
- Having the responsibility to oversee major product feature enhancements from initial build to production release and maintenance BAU.
- Supporting with database architecture, in line with the wider group governance. This includes working with both structured and unstructured data storages.
- Promoting a culture of continuous improvement within the Development team by mentoring and upskilling others.
- Participating in Isio’s CAB to ensure effective governance of changes being deployed to production systems.
- Involvement in Isio’s adoption of AI, including working with custom AI integrations