Azure DevOps Engineer

Job description

Job title: Azure DevOps Engineer 

Location: Hybrid or Remote working available

Hours: Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week 

Salary: Competitive + benefits 

About BCN:  

At BCN we unite people and technology to enable organisations to fly.  

We believe people and organisations can achieve anything using technology to it’s full potential. Our role is to help them understand what is possible, implement in the right way and utilise their technology to achieve their ambitions. Which is why we put people front and centre – building client relationships for life and fostering a culture where our people thrive. 

We are a leading managed IT services provider and technology consultant, specialising in delivering transformative technology solutions with industry-leading client experience across business, public sector and not for profit organisations. From cloud computing, cybersecurity, and data management to power app development, we are dedicated to pioneering technology with Microsoft innovation. 

Guided by our 3 values of building relationships, customer success and passion and dedication , we are on a mission to make BCN the most trusted tech partner in the UK today . The kind of company clients want to work with, and people want to work for. 

We are delighted you are on this journey with us! 

Focus of the role:  

As an Azure DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for working directly with our customers in various sectors to deliver public cloud transformation projects in Azure using infrastructure as code to support the deployment and configuration of various resource types in the Azure technology stack. 

Responsibilities:  

• Deploying and configuring Azure resources using infrastructure as code (IaC). 

• Building and configuring continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to deploy resources to customer environments. 

• Take technical ownership of project delivery for various customer projects. 

• Align deployment tasks and architecture with best practice alignments in both the Azure Cloud Adoption and Well Architected frameworks. 

• Optimise and speed up future deployments by creating templates aligned with Enterprise Scale Landing Zones and secured, well-governed configurations and resource deployments. 

• Align deployments with best practice security standards and guidelines such as National Institute of Standards (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework, ISO27001, Centre for Internet Security (CIS) and zero-trust principles. 

Person, Skills & Experience:  

• Microsoft Azure experience would be preferred but other public cloud platform experience such as AWS, GCP or Oracle would be accepted. 

• Excellent skills in infrastructure as code (IaC) provisioning using continuous configuration automation tools such as Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Ansible or equivalent. 

• Ideally experience of Bicep. 

• Excellent skills working with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline tools such as GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps. 

• Good awareness of Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption and Well Architected Frameworks 

• Experience of working in a DevOps focused role or experience of other project delivery using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) 

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) or equivalent 

• Ideally Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert 

• Good knowledge of networking principles ideally in public cloud 

• Good knowledge of firewalls, whether PaaS or 3rd party network virtual appliances 

• Experience of supporting Windows Server environments (Windows Server 2016, 2019, 2022) 

Why BCN? 

• The opportunity to shape your own future with industry leading training and development, with access to our BCN Academy. 

• Competitive salary with the ability to progress. 

• 23-days holiday allowance, increasing with length of service, plus bank holidays, an extra day off on your birthday and the option to buy more! 

• Company pension scheme. 

• 2 paid leave days per year to volunteer and support your local community – if it matters to you it matters to us. 

• Health cash plan with free access to a confidential  Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)  supporting bereavement, financial, health and wellbeing, and much more 

• Life assurance 

• Cycle to work scheme, electric vehicle scheme, home and tech scheme, and retail discounts. 

• Balancing work, life, and fitness can be challenging, so we offer a free on-site gym at our Manchester and Leeds locations to make it easier to stay active. 

• Long service recognition to celebrate all the milestones 

• Beer (or soft drinks), Pizza at the end of month, dress down every day, social events such as Summer BBQ, Christmas party and lots more! 

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