Senior Devops Engineer

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We Are Guided By Our Users In How To Develop The Platform But We Will Always Focus On

Our goal in Platform Engineering, as part of the wider Platform Services area, is to provide a Platform product to the IT Tribes that enables them to develop, test, deliver and run their applications.

• Providing secure and scalable platforms from Development/QA through to Production
• Providing infrastructure for platform services like logging, monitoring and alerting
• Supporting the essential tools that enable the development process
• Continuing to enhance our on-premise services while we build out the future platforms in the cloud
  

It’s an exciting time for Platform Engineering as Admiral is making a big investment in technology, moving the majority of our systems to the cloud in the next two years. We’ll be at the heart of that transformation, building the services that will support our systems for many more years, and we are looking for people to join us in meeting this challenge. It’s a fantastic opportunity so if you’re interested in throwing yourself into cloud computing and have a passion for technology then we’d love to hear from you.

Treating our platform as a product is key to how we work and we are organising ourselves around that concept, using an agile approach with a Product Owner taking the lead in working with our users to set the platform direction and squads made up of a Squad Lead, Devops Engineers and Senior Devops Engineers to deliver it.

Senior Devops Engineer

As a Senior Devops Engineer you will help guide the technical direction for Platform Engineering. You are actively encouraged and expected to contribute to all aspects of the platform product so as to meet the needs of our users, evaluating feasibility, exploring requirements and solution development. You will ensure the achievement of the Objectives and Key Results as agreed with the Squad Lead, Product Owner and Senior Service Owner.

Whilst providing quality software solutions for our business and evaluating requirements, proposing and developing solutions as part of an Agile delivery Squad, you will also take responsibility for estimating, planning and managing your own tasks and reporting on progress.

Relationship Management will play an important part as you’ll be collaborating closely with other members of the squad and working alongside the Product Owner and the domain teams in Platform Technology to help deliver on our users’ requirements and evolve the platform product.

We expect you to become an expert within Platform Engineering, helping set the direction for at least one key area of the team’s work. It’s important that we develop the skills of all our engineers so this role will expect you to provide guidance, coaching and mentoring to all members within the Platform Engineering group.

Main Duties

• Develop end to end solutions using best practice engineering methodology while adhering to the relevant Admiral IT Architecture and CISO controls and standards
• Identify and implement suitable detailed development activities for each sprint set of epics/ stories in accordance with best practice
• Be an SME in one or more core platform technologies; propose and develop new technologies and solutions
• Take ownership for the delivery of specific stories or epics, including co-ordinating the work of others
• Work directly with the Product Owner to clarify and further define the details of how a story should be implemented or suggest alternative solutions
• Provide mentoring, coaching and guidance to other engineers in the squad
• Research and evaluate software products; create PoCs as necessary to demonstrate new ideas and technologies
• Diagnose and resolve problems with the platforms supported by Platform Engineering
• Identify and drive improvements in how the squad works
• Listen to teams across IT to understand how we can help improve the platform, share best practice to help development teams improve how they work
• Be an active participant in squad-level ceremonies
  

Essential Knowledge, Skills And Experience

• A problem-solving mindset
• A passion to improve how we develop and run our applications
• The ability to prioritise and manage multiple workflows simultaneously
• Experience in working as part of a team and building strong working relationships
• The ability to drill into the detail as well as see the bigger picture
• An exponent of Infrastructure as Code
• 3+ years experience in several of the following: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Azure Devops, Jenkins, Jira, SonarQube & Nexus
• An understanding of agile practices and agile ways of working
  

Desirable Knowledge, Skills And Experience

• Experience of design and implementation of infrastructure, applications and cloud solutions
• Experience with datacentre migration, cloud migration, integration and consolidation efforts
• In-depth understanding of cloud-based architectures, preferably Google Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure
• An understanding of Information Security and how to ensure platforms are safe and secure
• Experience operating within Financial Services
• Experience of containerising Java applications
  

Why work for us?

Admiral has many benefits but further to that you will also benefit from

• Working with a top-class team
• Working on exciting challenges to maintain Admiral’s competitive advantage
• Playing a central role in shaping and enabling Admiral’s digital ambitions
• Be given the flexibility to work in the way that allows you to give your best
• Work in an open and accessible department
• Know that you are working for a department who regularly take part in charitable events
  

Salary, Benefits and Work-Life Balance

We do not have a set salary for this position, as it will be dependent on the successful candidate’s experience. We are happy to see CVs from all candidates who meet the requirements and will be happy to discuss the remuneration package.

At Admiral, we are proud to be a diverse business where we put our people and customers first. We have great benefits to ensure employees have a great work-life balance; it’s one of the reasons we’re voted no. 3 in the 2020 Sunday Times Best Big Companies to Work For in the UK. We want you to have an element of freedom to define a working lifestyle that supports this, so accommodate flexible hours wherever possible.

You can also view some of our other key benefits here; https://admiraljobs.co.uk/employee-benefits/.

Interviews and feedback for this role will begin week commencing 23rd of August.