Job Introduction
Speedy are the UK’s leading hire provider with the widest range of tools, specialist hire equipment, plant, and support services – everything for every job!
Speedy is Transforming with our new Velocity strategy, we are undergoing one of our biggest digital and people focused transformations to build a bigger, better, stronger business for the future.
Flexible hours available this includes job shares/ amended hours, we will consider all. Offering a work/life balance is of great importance to Speedy!
We have an exciting new opportunity for a Azure DevOps Engineer who will play a key role in the delivery of new software, enhancing automated development, testing and delivery processes. The main purpose of this role is to automate and speed up development, testing and deployment processes and to accelerate Speedy’s digital growth in line with our Velocity strategy.
You will be working across three cross functional agile development teams and must be pro-active at improving infrastructure, tooling, and deployment processes to accelerate development practices. A good DevOps engineer will be motivated to help others do their job better and to continuously improve development, testing and deployment processes.
The principal objectives of the role are:
- To accelerate the delivery time of software through development, testing and deployment
- To improve the performance of our in-house developed software systems.
- To improve security of our environments and software.
- To migrate from legacy infrastructure and keep systems and software up-to-date.
The duties and responsibilities of the role are:
- Automate build and release pipelines.
- Set up development tooling and infrastructure.
- Work with ops and third parties as required.
- Keep dependent software packages up to date.
- Setting up automated testing frameworks for the test team.
- Work with DBAs and Ops to migrate servers.
- Work with developers to identify necessary Azure resources and automate their provisioning.
- Document automation processes.
- Work with development team and key stake holders to create plan for monitoring Azure resources.
- Work closely with key stakeholders to capture, analyze, and derive DevOps requirements.
- Responsible for database migrations and maintenance
Core Capabilities
- Process Improvement Focus
- Desire to automate processes
- Communication and team working skills
- Good understanding of on-premise Microsoft environments.
- Good understanding of MS Azure services and infrastructure.
- Seek to standardize tooling and processes
- Attention to detail
- Forward Thinking and pro-active
- Problem solving and conflict resolution
- Ability to work to deadlines
- Business awareness
Qualifications & Experience
- Windows hosting setup
- IIS
- Azure DevOps
- Deployment/release pipeline automation
- Peer code reviews
- Version control (Git)
- Appreciation of service excellence
- Ability to work effectively under pressure
- Ability to support your business unit/team to deliver our ESG Strategy – Decade to Deliver.
Desirable
- Software security experience
- IIS performance tuning
- SQL server
- Knowledge of automated testing (NUnit / xUnit / Specflow / Selenium)
- Microsoft Certification
- Awareness of agile development methodologies
What we offer:
- 26 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
- Life assurance
- Pension Scheme
- Canteen facilities
- 95% discount across the Speedy brand
- Opportunities for training, development and career progression
- Voluntary Health Cash Plan
- My Staff Shop: discounts and offers for shopping etc. across many suppliers
- Green Commute Initiative: Work scheme for cycling
- Vita – Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Offers free and confidential support and counselling to help you through matters such as wellbeing, divorce, legal, and financial management
We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements and are promoting our Speedy Work Life Balance initiative which is a huge step in realising our ambition of putting our People First!
Speedy offer a Career Line of Sight which enables a detailed understanding of the route to progression and growth within the Speedy Group.
Please be aware Speedy reserves the right to close our vacancies earlier than the listed date if we have received a high level of applications. We would recommend that if you wish to be considered that you complete the application as promptly as possible.
Please be aware that some roles within The Speedy Group UK&I may require a DBS, Credit or Security Clearance Check. The Speedy Group is an equal opportunity employer where we embrace diversity in all its forms and fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us.
Link below to our policies in line with our ESG Governance.
https://www.speedyservices.com/esg/governance
All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status. All roles within The Speedy Group require proof of right to work in the UK by the start of employment.
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