Senior Cloud Engineer

**About Us** We’re on a mission to change the future of clinical research. At Calyx, we help the biopharmaceutical industry bring medical treatments to the market, faster. Our mission is to change the world - but to do this, we need people like you. **What can we offer you?** Apart from job satisfaction, we can offer you: YOURSELF - Flexible working - 25 days’ holiday (with the option to buy more) HEALTH - Simplyhealth Health Cash Plan - Optional private health and dental insurance, and health screens - Cycle to work scheme (Applies to all employees) WEALTH - Generous pension scheme with up to 10% employer contribution - Life assurance - Season ticket Loan As a Senior cloud (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. 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 collectionand 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 supportfunctions. 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 implementsolutions 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 deliveryto 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. **Experience**: - Azure PaaS & IaaS engineering & development experience - Microsoft Office365 & PowerApps engineering experience - Deep understanding of CI/CD pipeline build, improvement and management - Hands 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 tools Diagnosing and troubleshooting, at expert level, incidents, problems and service-outages in high - Understanding in building cloud services within regulated environments - Experience 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 **Personal behaviours and attributes**: - Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills with team communication and positive stakeholder management - A flexible attitude with respect to work assignments and new learning - Ability to manage multiple and varied tasks with enthusiasm and prioritise workload with attention to detail. - A collaborative attitude to working with colleagues across cultures and time-zones. - Takes responsibility and shows Initiative and self-confidence; be adaptable and able to cope with changing and evolving priorities. Be aware of the value and perception of your activities on your peers and wider team. - Must have the ability to work methodically in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment - Ability to present to small - medium sized audiences **Knowledge, Skills, Education & Experience**: - Degree in Software Engineering or Computer Science field, or equivalent or has proven experience as a Systems Engineer or DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure Certifications are desirable - Excellent knowledge of ITIL V3, Foundation certification is desirable - Fluent in English both written and oral