DevOps Engineer

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THE ROLE

We’re looking for an addition to a group of highly experienced engineers in a DevOps solutions and technology team. Working closely with engineering teams to foster a strong culture of collaboration, system development lifecycles and infrastructure as code practices. Develop and support high quality digital solutions, with a focus on building operational awareness, supporting configuration management and ensuring quality. Become integral to a team of software developers, test analysts and product owners and start to build out our DevOps Practice.

As we embark on a very exciting technical transformation with a focus on cloud migration and microservice architectures, it is a great time for you to shape our practice where each individual can create an immediate impact.

THE CHALLENGE

To excel in this role, you have a diverse background with different software development roles. You should have a passion for DevOps, extensive experience of tooling centric to software crafting/hosting and an expert level understanding of software non-functional requirements: quality, reliability, release and scaling principles. You will have experience setting up continuous integration/delivery in agile teams. In addition, you will have operational experience with system administration or site reliability engineering which allows you to craft and maintain resilient systems. You will also have a natural desire to automate all things, coach and guide your peer development community and a passion for reproducible results.

There are several key challenge areas:

• DevOps evangelism and coaching
• Design, build and improve the software delivery lifecycle for a broad array of products and services.
• Automate the creation and management of our software platforms
• Foster the adoption of Infrastructure as Code within the Engineering team
• Craft reusable frameworks that simplify platform, delivery and observability
• Enable teams to work efficiently and effectively through technology and ways of working solutions

YOUR PROFILE

• Proficient in container orchestration and administration.
• Proficient in deploying and running applications in Kubernetes or AWS ECS.
• In depth Cloud experience with AWS (at least 2 years).
• Background in .NET and the MS technology stack
• Detailed knowledge of GNU/Linux OS (at least 3 years of experience w/ administration of production grade services running on Linux server).
• Application development, technical architecture, or application support experience in an agile / continuous delivery environment.
• Excellent experience creating Operational Awareness through monitoring and alerting solutions.
• Highly proficient with IaC and Configuration Management tooling (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Cloud Formation)
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines (at least 2 years), including TeamCity and Octopus
• Strong scripting skills (ability to write Bash script, Python / Ruby / Powershell / other).
• Excellence with version control systems and application lifecycle management (Git / GitHub).
• Excellent communicator at all levels.

PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS

• Team player with great communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills and maintains excellent vendor/ partner relationships, internal relationships and generates team buy-in
• Goal and results orientated
• Passionate about Climate Change
• Critical thinker – strategic and analytical
• Passionate and highly energetic personality – motivates others

WHAT YOU’LL GET

• Professional development and opportunity to shape a fast-growing (100% YoY growth) private equity-backed company with a culture that values psychological safety at work, passionate and colleagues and highly ambitious colleagues.
• 25 days annual leave per year plus public holiday entitlement. Additional entitlement for continuous service of 24 months, to a maximum of 30 days
• Work for a company that really lives and breathes its values
• Excellent ongoing professional development support
• Employee pension scheme and healthcare
• Maternity package
• 2 days per year to volunteer for charity
• Discretionary end-of-year bonus
• Flexible working and opportunity for home working
• Monthly company socials, childcare vouchers, Bike2Work scheme, payroll giving

EVORA is a leading provider of consulting, managed services and software solutions for Real Assets. The business has a pedigree delivering deep industry expertise across the complex spectrum of regulatory and reporting requirements, coupled with robust data platform offering high integrity and insight.

EVORA is the largest contributor of reporting into GRESB standard and offers specialist knowledge around Net Zero Carbon, Green Finance, TCFD and SFDR. Importantly for its clients, the company can frame these regulatory and stakeholder obligations into financial outcomes.

With a focus on sophisticated asset owners and fund managers that care about Climate Change and Carbon Emissions, EVORA is orienting its business model to recurring services, data and software. The business has a blue-chip client base in Europe with demand for its services across Europe and US. The Company’s software assets were developed initially to support managed services but are now maturing to full standalone capabilities and the ability to help clients formulate a strategy, track progress and optimize their Real Asset portfolios across Real Estate, Infrastructure and Green Finance.

The company has recently transitioned from being founder bootstrapped, to enjoying the financial and operational support offered by Bridges Fund Management, Farview Equity Partners and MSCI. The new investors believe there are significant opportunities to enhance GTM, service delivery and application development depth, enabling scale-up acceleration.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: Up to £75,000.00 per year

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Birmingham: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• DevOps: 5 years (preferred)

Work Location: In person