DevOps Engineer

As a DevOps Engineer, the engineer will play a pivotal role in implementing and maintaining the infrastructure and tools that power our organisation's platforms. He or she will work closely with cross-functional teams to enable seamless software delivery, optimise cloud environments, and ensure the reliability and scalability of our systems. This is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on our technology stack and drive the success of our strategic initiatives.

Key Managerial Responsibilities:

Provide 3rd line support for awarding bodies, marking centres, and supervisors

Collaborate with the Helpdesk to create user-facing technical help documentation

Good communication skills - Interact with customers and ability to explain things to non-technical people

Defect logging and escalation to the relevant resolver group

Floor-walking of marking centres as required during peak

Coordination and collaboration with global technical and operations teams

Coordination and collaboration with third parties (who provide infrastructure and scanning solutions)

Collaborate with development and operations teams to ensure platform reliability, scalability, and

Preparation for customer exam marking sessions

Stay up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies to drive continuous improvement in our platforms.

Key Technical Responsibilities:

Resolve incident tickets within contractual SLAs

Manage Cl/CD pipelines to accelerate software delivery and improve deployment

Manage and Maintain the Azure hosted (security audits/patching, version upgrades)

Maintain cloud-native infrastructure using tools like Kubernetes, Terraform, and

Deploying applications using existing deployment troubleshoot deployment failures.

Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and monitoring to enhance operational

Troubleshoot complex issues and implement proactive solutions to minimise

Application monitoring and alerting

Cloud, Database & Networking

MS SOL - Querying, Performance Troubleshooting, Administration (Backups and restores)

Azure Cloud - VM, AKS, Networking

Linux - Basic administration (restart services, cron jobs, sftp, troubleshoot disk space )

Familiarity with tools like Nginx and Cloudflare

Azure DevOps - Build CICD pipelines

Terraform (laC)

Monitoring Applications

Familiarity with Windows and Linux OS Patching

Reverse proxy and forward proxy

Basics Bash script

Infrastructure Operations and Engineering

Infrastructure monitoring and alerting

Deployment of infrastructure and application

Security patching

Capacity management

Out of hours on call

On-call requirement for service level issues, with initial triage by a global 24/7 team.

If you fit the bill or know someone who does, feel free to click apply now or send over your resume to for a private and confidential discussion. Speak soon!

EA Reg Number: R22107188

EA License Number: 07C3924

Company Registration No: 200609504D