DevOps Engineer 12 month FTC - #1795723

Company Description

Evelyn Partners is a UK leader in wealth management, providing personalised, expert investment management and financial planning advice to support clients in embracing what’s next. Our success hinges on our people and that’s our secret for longevity. We are a team of passionate professionals and everything we do is guided by our purpose – placing the power of good advice into more hands, we go further to understand the needs of our clients and what matters most to them. We’re here to help them make significant decisions with confidence, provide strong foundations for the future and guide them towards their goals.

Job Description

Job Purpose

We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps engineer to drive a step-change improvement in the quality, reliability and performance of our software products. As an ambitious wealth management organisation undergoing digital transformation, we are looking for a seasoned engineer to champion and embed the latest development practices and foster operational excellence in our application development. With support from our senior leadership team, we are committed to modernising our ways of working and looking for someone who bring the latest thinking to life amongst new and established technical teams.

Qualifications

Key Responsibilities

• Promote the latest engineering thinking, especially in the areas of test automation, observability, continuous delivery, chaos engineering and DevOps
• Foster operational excellence and transparency by supporting teams in the adoption and monitoring of service level indicators and objectives (SLI/SLOs)
• Drive a significant increase in automation and reduction in manual toil in the engineering process
• Implement modern operational practices, implementing on-call, incident response and post-mortem processes that make the best use of empowered engineering teams
• Embed and nurture a culture of continuous improvement in all our engineering
• Developed and operated modern customer-facing web and/or mobile applications in the cloud
• Implemented continuous delivery practices e.g. building and improving CI/CD pipelines and automated testing infrastructure
• Introduced tools to increase the observability, monitoring or performance of existing systems
• Been involved in on-call support for production systems, as well as post-mortems, root cause analysis and troubleshooting activity
• Persuaded other engineers to introduce new practices, acting as a positive force for change
  
  

Skills, Experience & Qualifications

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (preferably Terraform) Required
• Strong working knowledge of the Azure ecosystem (Azure storage account, APIM, Azure functions, VNet, CDN, monitor etc) Required
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines as code (Preferably GitHub Actions, TeamCity and Octopus Deploy) Required
• Strong focus on testability of all code deployed Required
• Knowledge of Azure serverless offerings Required
• Nice to have: experience in JavaScript/TypeScript Required