Senior DevOps Automation Engineer

NEW PERMANENT ROLE

Senior DevOps Automation Engineer

Azure, GitHub, Cloud Native Architectures, Jenkins, Docker, OpenShift

Remote / Birmingham or London (1-2 days month in office)

Permanent

£70,00 - £85,000 per annum + benefits + bonus

DevOps - Engineer - Lead - Automation - Azure - GitHub - Cloud - Jenkins - Docker - Kubernetes -Architecture - Strategy - Agile - Digital

My client, a leading global specialist insurance group, are looking for a Senior DevOps Automation Lead Engineer passionate about technology and Digital transformations to join their existing IT team and provide high level and long term enterprise automationarchitecture governance, strategy, and planning.

This a great time to join my client as they are going through a period of sustained growth and technological refresh.

Working with the Head of Enterprise Architecture, the Senior DevOps Automation Engineer will define solutions architecture to meet business needs and to document and optimize the technology flows supporting the business. The incumbent is a technologist whois passionate about technology and uses this inquisitive nature to anticipate and test IT industry technologies and future directions.

**Key responsibilities**:
- Regularly meets with business and technology leaders to understand and capture all business needs that can be addressed with IT systems. Acts as a visionary to proactively assist in defining direction for IT projects.
- Establishes and maintains understanding of long term company strategy and oversees design, development and implementation of high level automation systems architecture that will enable the company to meet the changing industry and competitive demands.
- Develop, implement, and maintain digital enterprise architecture standards that drive business capabilities and optimization to create efficiency, quality, and agility
- Identifies opportunities for improvement in current overall architecture and that of individual systems. Identifies costs savings and evaluates options based on business strategy alignment.
- Manages the effort to collect and maintain current and future state enterprise architecture models and domain roadmaps. Develops comprehensive technology recommendations and presents to executive management.
- Oversees research and information gathering to aide in product life cycle planning, utilizing knowledge of IT industry future directions.
**Required skills/ experience**:
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, presentation & consultative skills for effective relationships and planning long term projects with senior management.
- Demonstrated expertise in the implementation, and maintenance of large-scale software systems and defining new architectural models
- Expert level experience in Software Development using Java and.Net technologies and Agile Practices
- Experience with Cloud Native Architectures, REST and APIs, Microservices, Spring Boot/Framework,.Net/.Net Core, GitHub, Jenkins, Docker, OpenShift, BPM, SQL, Oracle, NoSQL, Messaging AMQP/Kafka
- Solid understanding of Private Cloud, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, as well as various Cloud Models (Azure and AWS). Infrastructure architecture and best practice experience a significant plus.
- Solid understanding of data, analytics, and BI patterns and models - data quality, data modeling, data persistence and caching technology fit for purpose, warehousing, analytics platforms and strategies, BI reporting, etc.
- Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, automation and containerization technologies.
- Experience with Agile and Digital transformations
DevOps - Engineer - Lead - Automation - Azure - GitHub - Cloud - Jenkins - Docker - Kubernetes -Architecture - Strategy - Agile - Digital

NEW PERMANENT ROLE

Senior DevOps Automation Engineer

Azure, GitHub, Cloud Native Architectures, Jenkins, Docker, OpenShift

Remote / Birmingham or London or York or Colchester (1-2 days month in office)

Permanent

£70,00 - £85,000 per annum + benefits + bonus